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Category Archives: Fish
Archer Fish
Quiz time! These fish are called “archer” fish because:
i) When they get excited, they quiver.
*) During breeding season, they make a noise that sounds like “Phrasing!”
c) The odds are ever in their favor.
4) They shoot insects with jets of water.
д) Their long lives pass like swift draughts of the sweet mead.
ζ) They are unhealthily obsessed with the death of their city.
Red Bellied Piranha
It’s a little known fact that if you’re attacked by a flock of piranhas, you can sprinkle pepper in the water. This will make them sneeze and you’ll have a chance to get away.
Fish
Among Sony’s numerous attempts to capitalize on the rights to Spider-Man was the short-lived underwater movie.
Electro didn’t go over well with test audiences.
Clown Fish
Wet Fishy
Cold fishy
Scale, gill and fin
Hiding fishy
Cozy fishy
Sting resistant skin
Piranha
If you don’t keep turning your piranhas, they don’t ripen evenly.
Fish
For a while, a long time ago, I was puzzled over the fact that both water (mostly made of hydrogen and oxygen) and air (mostly nitrogen with a bit of carbon and oxygen for flavor) were clear when most things made of those atoms are not.
Then I realized that eyes evolved in water and then moved to land.
Summer Flounder
If your eyes migrated around your head, you’d rest a lot too.
Pipefish
Ceci n’est pas une poisson pipe.
Sign
Instructions for how to touch a sturgeon (for the very first time).
Butterfly Hillstream Loach (Beaufortia kweichowensis)
Some fish are sticky.
Hatchetfish
Hatchetfish are ineffective when it comes to splitting wood.
Russetfin Topminnow (Fundulus escambiae)
As he embarked upon his trip, he encountered his temporal doppelgänger, doubled in time, returning home.
He wondered how he’d lose his eye and if it would hurt, but his personal timeline, once observed, became fixed.
Off he went, into his future and their shared past.
Paddlefish
Sometimes when you make a fish, you wind up with bits left over. It’s OK. You just stick ’em on anywhere.
Hatchetfish
“And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”
Dwarf Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae)
I’m pretty proud of this one.
Most “real” photographers talk about how they pre-visualize the shot and what they do to make it happen. Because I work with animals that I haven’t trained and usually have no control over what they do or their environment, pre-visualization seldom works for me. However, when you know a species pretty well, you can guess what they’re going to do. This helps to get you positioned to get a good shot. Many of mine are like that.
However, in a very few number of cases, you can also control lighting and position. If you’re not shooting around bars or trees, like in an aquarium, you have more flexibility. (You actually lost angle capability due to refraction, but there’s no need to get into that right now.)
So when I saw the translucency of the sea weed, and I knew the habit of sea horses to slowly drift and then anchor with their tails, it was just a matter of determining where I wanted the light to be and then I waited.
This is one of the very few shots that turned out almost exactly as I intended.
Yellow Banded Pipefish (Doryrhamphus pessuliferus)
Stay in your lane. There’s a fish obstructing the path just ahead.
Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus)
This electric eel just realized he doesn’t know where Dr. Pepper got her doctorate.
White Cloud Mountain Minnow (Tanichthys albonubes)
This fish just learned about /usr/lib/extendedFILE.so.1 in Solaris and has been struck speechless with the horror of what it implies.
Greyface Moray Eel (Gymnothorax thyrsoideus)
I took this photo over a year ago and I am still baffled at how a pupil can cast a shadow.