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At Jamie Hall's kingfisher hide, Norfolk (www.jamiehallphotography.co.uk).
Whilst some parts of the country where hit with heavy rain, I had lots of sunshine until way past 6pm this evening. Both male and female kingfishers were out feeding, mainly in the early morning and late afternoon.
Patience really does pay off - most of my shots had the wings or beak cut off the frame or in many cases, not in the frame at all :-) Some shots had the bird but not the fish!
This photo was taken at 1/8000 of a second, the kingfishers really are quick!
Clearly, I have forgotten the name of the fish. Given its black stripes on a white body, I thought best to call it the "zebra fish. My apologies to the marine world upfront.
Clearly shooting pictures of fishes in an aquarium is a tough ask. Firstly, you have to deal with a very thick layer of glass which in most cases is quite dirty owing to people's palm imprints. Second, fishes rarely stay in one place long enough to get a clean shot. Third, their direction of movement is quite unpredictable as they rarely seem to move in a straight line making it that much for difficult to preempt where they might be the next moment. Fourth, given so many moving objects at the same time, it is quite a challenge to focus on any one and the auto focus (you can safely give up on the manual focus mode) keeps hunting for focal points making it a cat and mouse game!
After a few attempts, I managed to get a clean shot.
Delicious Fish and Chips by Swensen's in Bedok Mall.
*Note: More food pics in my: Favorite Food Album.
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Just caught, after quite a fight, and seconds before gently releasing the fish back into the water. Frankie is in friendly good mood also when there's no catch :)
The cameraphone capture edited in Snapseed app.
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A bit of fun! I saw this fish, all alone in a fish tank, in the entrance hall to Angkor National Museum in Seam Reap, Cambodia. Having visited Angkor Wat, we went to the museum to learn more about the history of temples and religions in Cambodia. I just couldn't resist taking a photograph of such a vibrantly coloured and unusual looking fish. I have no idea what it is but I spent ages trying to freeze the fish's motion to get a passable side view through the glass. I've spent less time getting shots of a single lion or leopard!!
Samantha Fish
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
June 29, 2016
Guitar: Delaney Guitars Samantha Fish Signature
She refers to this guitar as her "Fish-o-Caster."
Samantha Fish:
It took a couple of visits to this spot to get the shot I wanted. The wrong lens, not quite right faces, my incompetence all playing their part. However, returning with the knowledge where you went wrong previously is a great help.
And the cod and chips were blooming lovely too.
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
The great cormorant is a large black bird, but there is a wide variation in size in the species wide range. Weight is reported to vary from 1.5 kg (3.3 lb)[6] to 5.3 kg (12 lb). Males are typically larger and heavier than females, with the nominate race (P. c. carbo) averaging about 10% larger in linear measurements than the smallest race in Europe (P. c. sinensis). The lightest average weights cited are in Germany (P. c. sinensis), where 36 males averaged 2.28 kg (5.0 lb) and 17 females averaged 1.94 kg (4.3 lb). The highest come from Prince Edward Island in Canada (P. c. carbo), where 11 males averaged 3.68 kg (8.1 lb) and 11 females averaged 2.94 kg (6.5 lb). Length can vary from 70 to 102 cm (28 to 40 in) and wingspan from 121 to 160 cm (48 to 63 in). They are tied as the second largest extant species of cormorant after the flightless cormorant, with the Japanese cormorant averaging at a similar size. In bulk if not in linear dimensions, the Blue-eyed shag species complex of the Southern Oceans are scarcely smaller at average. It has a longish tail and yellow throat-patch. Adults have white patches on the thighs and on the throat in the breeding season. In European waters it can be distinguished from the common shag by its larger size, heavier build, thicker bill, lack of a crest and plumage without any green tinge. In eastern North America, it is similarly larger and bulkier than double-crested cormorant, and the latter species has more yellow on the throat and bill and lack the white thigh patches frequently seen on great cormorants. Great cormorants are mostly silent, but they make various guttural noises at their breeding colonies.
Albino in Lake Kerkini, Greece
Variations
A very rare variation of the great cormorant is caused by albinism. The Phalacrocorax carbo albino suffers from loss of eyesight and/or hearing, thus it rarely manages to survive in the wild.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_cormorant