Photography Fun

Post by **Brian** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:21 pm

More Frogfish, including one with wife for scale on this Giant Frogfish. Frogfish are considered to be one of the most complicated and aggressive examples of mimicry. Frogfish can camouflage to their surroundings.

Frogfish, also known as anglerfish, are lie-in-wait camoflaged predators. They have a specialized lure called an Esca. The Illicium is like a fishing rod and the Esca is the bait. Using its fishing rod and lure the frogfish will dangle the bait in front of its head. An unsuspecting little fish will see the lure swimming towards a seemingly easy meal and become instant lunch. Frogfish move slowly, but have one of the fastest strike speeds of any animal on earth. They move by gulping water with its massive mouth and shooting it out their gills. The body moves very little as the frogfish huffs and puffs its way through the water column, I got to watch it move a bit (didn't get video of that moment). Most of the time it sits motionless, waiting for lunch to get close having been fooled into thinking that it is just another sponge, or attracted by the lure mechanism.

Post by **Brian** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:00 am

Wakatobi.

Post by **Brian** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:10 pm

Frogfish from raw file.

Post by **Brian** » Sat Mar 29, 2025 3:03 pm

San Diego Zoo.

Post by **Brian** » Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:17 pm

More Zoo.

Post by **Brian** » Mon Jun 02, 2025 12:20 pm

Our rental Fiat 500 in Valldemosa, Spain last week. They did not have a Miata, this manual shifting little Fiat was the nearest fun little easy to park and fun to shift and rev thing they had.