Thursdays Photo ~ Fish Faces

[pwfletcher]

The facial expression on this fish was priceless ... he was very lucky.

 

[notabob]

Aint's she a cutie! An Oyster (I think) toadfish. Shot on the Caribsea, North Carolina.

-Roman.

P.S. David, those wolf eels are absolutely amazing!!! Love your photos!

 

[Ruu]

Hey - I have a (much lesser) picture of what could well be the same tadfish on the Caribsea! I'll post a copy of it when I get into work for comparison.

Dave

 

[Ruu]

Ruu once bubbled...
Hey - I have a (much lesser) picture of what could well be the same tadfish on the Caribsea! I'll post a copy of it when I get into work for comparison.

Dave

I did mean to say toadfish, honest. How did you know it was a female by the way? I hope he / she enjoys being photographed, since it probably happens quite a bit around that wreck.

Dave

 

[DennisW]

Dee, why do Soapfish always stare at you with that expression?

 

[Dee]

David....great Wolfies! I'd love to feel the texture of their skin. Those Warbonnets always remind me of Don King!

With Ruu's Toadfish, the cross-eyed Soapfish and the Wolfeels, we should have called this Uglies Day!

Dennis....I think it's because they are all so cross-eyed. I can never tell where they're looking!

 

[notabob]

Ruu once bubbled...


I did mean to say toadfish, honest. How did you know it was a female by the way? I hope he / she enjoys being photographed, since it probably happens quite a bit around that wreck.

Dave

How did I know it was a she? I have no idea. It could've been a he. I figured I had a 50/50 chance and took a shot I actually ran across a few toadfish that week on different wrecks... 3-4 over 5 days of diving and 8 wrecks.

-Roman.

 

[Ruu]

Dee once bubbled...


With Ruu's Toadfish, the cross-eyed Soapfish and the Wolfeels, we should have called this Uglies Day!

Technically it was notabob's toad fish. My toadfish may be the same toadfish, but the quality of my shot is nowhere near his - me being a damned amateur again. The attached image is said fish, but I'm at home, and without the magic of gimp, I am stuck using paintshop's magical "one-stop" image cleaner. Not that anything short of a professional cleanup is going to make the image much better, but I don't remember him / her being this colour...

Dave

 

[sapphire]

I was trying to compose a picture of a shy trumpetfish, when I turned around to find THIS face staring right at me!

A face only a mother could love

sapphire

 

[clootie]

Using a Nikonos, it's quite hard to get close enough to actually get good shots of a fish's face - if I have the framer on I almost need to touch them which they spook at, and if i didn't, it'd be out of focus... Luckily lionfish quite often like to work the camera