I took some fish pics that don't sucketh royal!
#1
Posted 15 January 2017 - 06:44 PM
Erin and I snuck in a couple hours in the Saluda River at the park in Ware Shoals, SC. Air temp was in the 60s, water temp was chilly enough to keep wimps out (but not me and Erin) and the water level was the lowest it has been for this date in 76 years, so I really didn't know what to expect. Did quite well, but since this is a photography post, sit back and marvel at pictures too good to be mine!
The locale...
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Fieryblack!
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Yours Truly
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Piedmont Darter
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Seagreens!
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"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#2
Posted 15 January 2017 - 06:47 PM
#3
Posted 15 January 2017 - 07:32 PM
#4
Posted 15 January 2017 - 10:48 PM
VERY nice Seagreen pictures... they (like my Turquoise) seem to go very early in the year... peak colors could be anytime now with the air temps up so high.
In the background of the last darter picture, it looks like you have a whitefin swimming around, but the last picture has a funny sheen/reflection on the fish and I cannot tell for sure...
Based on picture 4 are we to assume the trick to getting good pictures is letting someone else hold the camera?!
#5
Posted 16 January 2017 - 08:57 AM
Michael, I was wondering how Turquoises might be doing; figured they'd likely be under way in the color department, too. I don't recall ever seeing Seagreens colored quite this way what with the pearly sheen and white outlining of the scales. The green bars are usually more pronounced, too, I think.
I agree on that Whitefin call; had several in the bucket but no decent pics. Can't place that last one, though. Snout looks almost Hybopsis-ish. I do have the fish pretty snug to the glass in the belly region, which is throwing me a little, because I know it's not as robustly built a fish as it looks, but I can't make my mind work around/through that distortion.
And while it certainly didn't hurt to have Erin take my portrait, my shallow pride and years of futility in the fish photography department won't truck allowing her the least credit for those Seagreens.
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#6
Posted 16 January 2017 - 11:48 AM
Nice pics! Those seagreens are cool.
#7
Posted 16 January 2017 - 12:17 PM
I think "?" is also a whitefin shiner. Nice photo work Erin!
Gerald Pottern
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Hangin' on the Neuse
"Taxonomy is the diaper used to organize the mess of evolution into discrete packages" - M.Sandel
#8
Posted 16 January 2017 - 02:52 PM
If Erin took the pictures they look good...otherwise they still aren't good.
Freshwater Aquarist
South Carolina Aquarium
Charleston, SC
#9
Posted 18 January 2017 - 05:46 AM
If Erin took the pictures they look good...otherwise they still aren't good.
Haters gotta hate. No E. hopkinsi for you!
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#10
Posted 20 January 2017 - 08:03 PM
Look really good to me!
Kevin Wilson
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