Have Some Fish – Catching Up
Since Friday morning, I’ve been working solid until my eyes are blurry on images for two magazine articles. They are both about the East Indies Triangle, the most heavily speciated marine environment on the planet. Madang is in the heart of it. You may have seen some of the images that I’ll be showing you for the next few days, but all of them have been reworked extensively for publishing, so they will all look different, even if you’ve seen them before.
Here’s the Banded Sea Krait, which has appeared a couple of times on Madang – Ples Bilong Mi:
This is an egg-laying snake, so it must come onto land to deposit its eggs. I once came across one that had been run over by a car. I took it home and removed the skin. It now hangs in my office. It is missing about 30cm of its original length. You can see that they become quite long as adults:
This is a Bulb Anemone that you have seen before. I reworked the colours to appear more as I saw them with my eyes:
Since I never get tired of seeing bright blue starfish that look like kids’ toys made in Japan, here’s one on which to feast your eyes:
It looks silly, doesn’t it?
You’ve seen this shot of a Blue-Spotted Stingray before, but it has been extensively reworked for magazine publication:
It’s one of the best full-length shots of a stingray that I’ve yet managed.
Finally, here’s a spunky Clark’s Anemonefish getting ready to attack me. I was bitten several times by this little fellow. They seldom draw blood, but their tiny little teeth get your attention very quickly:
It’s time to do some work for pay. I hope to find a few minutes to do another post and post-date it, as I have done with this one, so that my calendar has no holes in it.
Yes, I know that that is called cheating. Sue me.
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