Which wet and wild critter should I enter?

[Ms. Toad]

Poll question: Which wet and wild critter should I enter?

Help me choose my entry for the May contest (I finally have some recent shots that fit the contest!)

Hawksbill Turtle


Flounder


Scorpion Fish


Barracuda


Teeming

[Eurobabe]

1. Forget the turtles, enter the FLOUNDER!

That is an awesome photo. :hi:

[Ms. Toad]

2. Thanks.

Do you know how hard it is to figure out whether a sand colored flounder lying on sand is actually in the viewfinder since reading glasses don't fit in my divingmask and my arms are too short for me to actually focus on the viewfinder :crazy:

I have M-A-N-Y flounder pieces and parts in other dozen or so flounder photos I took!

[Eurobabe]

4. My husband had PRK to get rid of his glasses

just so he wouldn't have to wear them while diving. He is hard core CCR diver (what the Navy Seals wear, closed circuit rebreather = no bubbles, less decompression time) By the end of the summer we hope to have a marketable video of underwater shots from Germany's freshwater lakes/seas. (Too bad I can't dive, he's really not the photographer of the family. LOL.)

I'd love to see your flounder shots. :hi:

[Ms. Toad]

8. Corrective lenses in the mask

work well for correcting nearsightedness - unfortunately when you need reading glasses there's not much of an underwater fix unless I want the big picture to be blurry...

I'll see if there are any other flounder pictures that are worth posting - my guess is not - just a quarter flounder or a fin here or there...

[TahitiNut]

6. Yup. I DO know how hard it is ... same with sand rays.

The light, the attention to the diving itself, their effective camouflage, all together make UW video and photography very tricky. Fun, too.

[Ms. Toad]

7. After I found this big one,

(the first one I'd seen - or at least the first I recognized as a flounder) I started seeing lots of little ones (1-2") floating down and settling on the sand. Not a chance of finding those in my viewfinder/LCD after they landed - but it was really cool to watch them.

[TahitiNut]

3. I voted 'Flounder' just for the ...

... halibut.

[Eurobabe]

5. LOL

Tahiti, you kick bass.

[sandnsea]

9. The flounder is terrific n/t

[Ms. Toad]

13. Thanks n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I know everyone else liked the flounder, and it's nice...

But I prefer the more vivid Teeming!

The sharp details, the colors, and the clarity of it all work for me...

:hi:

[Ms. Toad]

12. That's my favorite, too.

I was kind of surprised by the overwhelming preference for flounder. It's a neat fish picture - but artistically I don't think it has as much going for it.

[Callalily]

11. Great pics! I know how difficult

it is to take underwater photos. And I agree with the majority. You should enter the Flounder.

[Ms. Toad]

14. Thanks!

I usually come back with 5-10 blurs for every picture that is decent.