Monterey Bay Aquarium, February 2005
Finally, after much procrastination, many excuses, and more than a
few exceedingly lame and embarrassed "We just haven't had the time to
get around to it" excuses...well, we finally did
get around to it. That is, get around to visiting the Monterey Bay
Aquarium (we made this part of a longer trip south to visit Big Sur at
the same time).
Photography in the aquarium is difficult, because light levels are so
low, you simply have to push the ISO setting super high, so as to keep
shutter speeds and aperture settings reasonable. This results in a
degree of graininess in the pictures.
Still, the Canon 10D is a nice camera and did rather well. As
always, click on the thumbnails to see the full-sized photos; picture
sizes vary from 50k to 207k.
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Part of the swarm of huge Black Sea Nettle jellyfish |
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A Black Sea Nettle, up close |
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Same Black Sea Nettle, in another phase of its locomotion |
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A pair of Black Sea Nettle jellies moving down |
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Another variety of jellyfish, not sure what type |
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These would be Moon Jellies, if I remember correctly (in black-and-white for detail) |
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Another Moon Jelly, the detail of its underside (also in B&W) |
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The Great White Shark; she had to be released because she kept eating her tank-mates |
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A sea otter, playing with one of its squeaky toys |
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