Tag: sea life

In the concluding piece of the Aquarium of the Pacific photographs, I am left with those creatures who did not fit in the first two pieces, colors and medusae, ponies and dragons.

But I’m cool with that.  I have experience with being in the category of Other on a lot of points.

The dude to the left is a sea bass.  I searched and searched for video from Shadow of the Thin Man, hoping to find the hilarious sea bass scene.  Alas, my search was in vain.

But come on in if you wish to see some crustaceans and octopodes, eels  anemones, coral and other stationary critters, sharks, rays, and a couple of sea lions…and a surprise or two.  

I feel like I have to start off with a huge apology for being so much of a novice at photography…and for being a it slow to figure it out.

One of the main reasons for at lest a couple of us to visit the aquarium was to see the sea horses and sea dragons.  And the jellies.  Jellies are always cool.  (You did know that medusa is  synonym for jellyfish, right?)  

But most of any aquarium visit is inside poorly lit rooms built to allow people to view the contents of variously sized glass boxes.  That’s a real challenge for a mediocre photographer with a flash camera.  Every photo has to be at an angle, which reduces the clarity (q.v. your physics classes on refraction and reflection), and some of them are bound to be just too damn dark.

Thus many of my photos of the creatures we really wanted to remember are substandard.  Fortunately I figured out that I should switch to my iPhone instead while we still had some time remaining, so if you will bear with me through the trash, I hope that you’ll find some nuggets by the end.  I’ve tried not to include anything that ended up being totally worthless.

But even if you don’t come in, have a pony on the house.