Coral Lagoon #1 by goodoleboy

Photography • Animals • posted on Jul 25, 2011

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Captured 5/26/11, on my first visit to the beautiful Aquarium of the Pacific in beautiful Long Beach, California. A ZOOM would be to your distinct advantage. A pair of Foxface Rabbitfish (Siganus vulpinus) soar blithely past the many gorgeous life forms in this image, including that esoteric green treelike meshed growth, which I assume is coral. Andrea probably knows its identity. Taken with my Pentax K110D SLR camera, and lucky it came out this good considering the dim lighting and movement of the fish. Extensive postwork followed my Lagoon and Reef fotos. Unfortunately, that didn't save the 35% or so of pics that I had to trash because of annoying blur and noise. Toodles, thankx for the visit, and for any and all favs and complimentary comments.

Comments (17)

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magnus073

3:53PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

Very nice work on this beautiful and colorful capture Harry

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durleybeachbum

4:05PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

Superb!

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Bossie_Boots

4:19PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

Wow i love it superb capture thanks for sharing !!

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jocko500

5:34PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

the undersea world... cool shot of it too

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Feliciti

6:45PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

looks so beautiful !!great capture and colors too :)

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goodoleboy

8:05PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

I'm surprised Andrea didn't identify that green fan shaped coral. I tried researching it and came up with nothing substantial.

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npauling

8:12PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

A super capture of this underwater scene. That little coral is very pretty isn't it and the fish look great against it.

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MrsRatbag

9:49PM | Mon, 25 July 2011

It's not like any pictures of green corals that I can find on Google, but whatever it is, it's lovely... a beautiful capture, Harry, excellent on zoom!

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morningglory

6:02AM | Tue, 26 July 2011

The muted colors of the coral really show off the vivid colors of the fish.

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bmac62

12:04PM | Tue, 26 July 2011

A beautiful photo Harry,...these are under great stress in the Florida Keys...there are a couple of YouTube videos on the problem. They are common sea fans (Gorgonia ventalina). I learned to Scuba Dive in the Keys in 1956-58 and even brought home one of these. Today, divers can look but not touch...which is a good thing.

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bobrgallegos

4:13PM | Tue, 26 July 2011

Outstanding photo!

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blondeblurr

7:09PM | Tue, 26 July 2011

The coral appears to look like a tree silhouette - if it was 'out of the water' - ;-) what a stunning capture Harry and a great pond for fish to play in ... BB

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