Fish Database

[doctormike]

Hi, everyone..!

Here is something that I have been working on for a while... wonder if any of you have any suggestions about the implementation.

http://www.rothschilddesign.com/fishdatabase

Moving the images to a formal online database would have been a bit more work, so I just went with a big Web page of thumbnails with captions generated by Photo Mechanic - the page itself is searchable and in alphabetical order, though.

Also, feel free to let me know if there are any obvious identification errors! I tried very hard not to ID a species unless I was fairly sure...

Thanks!

Mike

 

[Larry C]

That's excellent, Mike! I'm bookmarking it.

 

[doctormike]

That's excellent, Mike! I'm bookmarking it.

Thanks!

 

[smellzlikefish]

Hi DoctorMike,

Your website was a real treat for me for a couple of reasons. The fish that I recognized came from my days living on the east coast and your site brought forth a sense of nostalgia. For those that I didn't recognize, my experience is mostly in Pacific fishes, so it was nice to see some Atlantic species.

BTW, I think you meant "smooth trun(k)fish."

Cheers!

 

[ozziworld]

I so appreciate the personal effort that went into this.

If you don't mind my suggesting it. I imagine if this was the start of some "open source" kind of page where all scuba board members can make a contribution from their own collections and this would then continue to grow.

That would really be something. Scuba Board's very own fish database.

 

[doctormike]

Hi DoctorMike,

Your website was a real treat for me for a couple of reasons. The fish that I recognized came from my days living on the east coast and your site brought forth a sense of nostalgia. For those that I didn't recognize, my experience is mostly in Pacific fishes, so it was nice to see some Atlantic species.

BTW, I think you meant "smooth trun(k)fish."

Cheers!

Whoops! Thanks so much for the pickup! Will fix that now...

Glad you liked it...

Mike

 

[doctormike]

I so appreciate the personal effort that went into this.

If you don't mind my suggesting it. I imagine if this was the start of some "open source" kind of page where all scuba board members can make a contribution from their own collections and this would then continue to grow.

That would really be something. Scuba Board's very own fish database.

That's a really good idea! There is this: Fish: Search FishBase
which is sort of open source in that anyone can contribute images, but a ScubaBoard specific site would be a fun project...

 

[dgreenh]

What an incredible amount of work you have done. Thank you so much for sharing this excellent piece of art with us.