My Lamarck Angelfish

My contribution to My Reef Clubs Photo of the Month contest

The theme this month was "your favorite reef fish"...

yea...I'm getting tired of the clowns too...

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Finally ...Photoshop is back in my grimy hands....ha..ha..!

Came up with this...

Won BIG at the Reef club meeting today.

A frag of Australomussa was my prize

I think its neat,,very red,,,very cool.

Well, its time to announce...the time has come..

I'am officially, within the blood family, an Uncle.

Eric and Catherin have seen fit to procreate and add to the population of planet Earth.

Erin and Emily have entered life with great challenges and risk.

Their futures are measured in moments.

Our love for them is, and always will be, eternal.

Good luck kiddies....

Uncle Matt is at the ready to tease you with fart noises every time we visit.

It's Tuesday..way to far from Friday.

Female Amphiprion Percula

Messing around once again with Photoshop,

                                                     came up with this.

 

I think a smokier boarder would be better, it's going to take some practice...

I thought this was nice.

                                                                

This video will probably not be up for very long...

Youtube does not approve of the musical additions to my videos.  That said , here is another video of my 265 gallon tank ,,,with "my Pops" playing "Round midnight"
by Thelonious Monk .

set the player to 480p..and go to wide screen mode ,for better resolution....

Some things come easy, most things do not.

This photo was in the "do not' category. 

                                          Neolamprologus brichardi

Warriors,,,

      How does the dominant male maintain his hard won hierarchal dominance..

                             Claiming all that he inhabits as his own domain..

                                             And end up looking like this?

                     Torn and tattered....tired and nearly, but not quit ,defeated.

                                                   I have an answer.....

                                                       Body shots...

Inflicting permanent physical damage , and receiving punishment in kind.

"Living the Dream"

Photo of the month debacle...

The local reef club decided to add some new forums . One of the new additions is a photography forum. One of our more generous sponsors volunteered  to give $50 gift certificate to the winner of a photo contest .

I guess some people always have to nudge, fudge or make the rules so they have a chance. It was decided for a brief time that "NO Photoshop would be allowed".

This of course roused my anger,

OK,,honestly,

It aroused some  minor frustration on my part.  In a photography forum that in essence would be perused by people who know a thing or two about photography or are trying to learn as much as they can about photography,,,,why would you deny the use of Photoshop?.

And why PS specifically? Any semi-decent camera you purchase comes with a disk, That disk usually has some sort of photo editing software.

If your cell phone takes great pictures , enter them. If your point and shoot captures a great shot...enter it.

If the "reef tank of the month" on Reef Central, the largest web site dedicated to reef  hobbyist's in the world , had its admission's dictated by the kind of "lets all play fair and equal".....folks would just find ways to get around the set limitations..its human nature...common sense says setting limits  just can't be...

In a photography forum, should not the best picture win?

I made a small fuss about this, as I understand a few other folks did as well.

"We made  difference",,,,Because we bravely stood up to "the man" and his unwise dictates to us,,,

Whatever..

I'm not going to enter the contest,,but here is the photo I would have entered...

The monthly theme was "your favorite LPS " (large polyp stony coral)

Another picture of my Galaxia..

Not horrible,,,,but not wonderful....

Time for some Gratitude...

I would like to thank my friend Eric .

 He has  graciously and unselfishly contributed  to my self imposed  bad habit of taking pictures of my resident  aquarium inhabitants, friends , family and assorted crapola ...and spending hours trying to make the photo's look presentable.

For that I give him a hearty thanks.

Thank You Eric!

He has given me the tools.....to be a bigger tool...

And many more late nights of trying to figure out...."what the hell am I doing here?"

Once again.....

Eric your contribution will not be ignored , unused or forgotten.

 Your addition to the exercising  of the one last creative braincell  that I have  left,may not always be fully utilized or successful in its application .  I will however, never stop trying to figure it out.

I promise .

Friday nights brain CON..fusion...

Favites Brain Coral

Late night time killing, with my fish and camera

So ......Mr. "Tropheus duboisi"  is swimming around lake Tanganyika. He's  a rowdy  juvenile , looking for several  future Miss's  too fight or spawn with.

What could possibly go wrong?

"Mr. Ornate Bicher"

Overwhelming hunger and predatory adaption , personified.

....he has not eaten for days..

And has no sympathy..or regret...

Looked at my Reef Tank tonight....

When you see this .....

                                                    This is likely to follow...







This is the same technique I use to find my socks in the morning.....

My sock hunt is usually a bit more frenetic .

A few pictures of flowers in my yard

Stumbling around in the dark..

I'm beginning to finally make some progress with  Photoshop layers...just a little. Here is my new signature under my posts on the Brevard Area Reef Society
forum:

My Blue Zoanthids.  Common name: Teal Ring Zoa's

                                And so, The struggle continues.

Another Wednesday...Another Julidochromis marlieri picture

Fish Base Info

Friday nights folly...

Julidochromis marlieri

I still have a few of these guys left. I gave away all the breeders a few years ago. I still enjoy the wide eyed look they give me when I feed them.