Red Fingered Anglerfish

Posted by ChrisRoss on Wed May 17, 2023 11:51 pm

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Red Fingered Anglerfish Porophryne erythrodactylus

Back to underwater subjects, from a recent dive a Red- Fingered anglerfish, endemic to the NSW coast between Botany Bay and Jervis Bay. Masters of camouflage, they look just like sponges till you get up close to them. This one was hanging upside under an overhang on a boulder, it was relatively small, maybe 70mm long.

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Olympus EM-1 MkII + 60mm macro, Nauticam housing, INON strobes

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by Swissblad on Thu May 18, 2023 1:13 am

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Wow Chris, you do go for some unusual subjects - most unusual and really fascinating - thanks for sharing

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by david fletcher on Thu May 18, 2023 2:01 am

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Swissblad wrote: Wow Chris, you do go for some unusual subjects - most unusual and really fascinating - thanks for sharing

+1. Fab find!

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by ChrisRoss on Thu May 18, 2023 3:08 am

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Swissblad wrote: Wow Chris, you do go for some unusual subjects - most unusual and really fascinating - thanks for sharing

Thanks Sinuhe, UW there is a lot of weird stuff to shoot, finding it is the biggest problem, camouflage is really that good in some species.

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by Axel Hildebrandt on Thu May 18, 2023 5:49 am

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Thanks for the explanation and their camouflage works really well.

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by Carol Clarke on Thu May 18, 2023 3:28 pm

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The camo is amazing and it took me a while to work out which end I was looking at.......until I spotted the eyes, Chris!

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by Tom Whelan on Thu May 18, 2023 6:56 pm

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What an unusual creature - and a fine image.

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by Cynthia Crawford on Mon May 29, 2023 7:19 pm

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Wild and wonderful. You reveal a whole new world to us that most will never see or hear about. Thanks for that, and the excellent shot (s).

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