Photographer captures image of rare fish that walks on its ‘hands’
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It's an astonishingly fast website too, considering how image heavy it is!
Not come across photodeck [0] before, but kudos to them. That's an incredibly pleasant website to navigate.
Updated: In fact is in a related but different family Brachionichthyidae. An endemism, endangered and interesting but, apart of this, is a typical member of the order Lophiiformes.
> And before, 400 million years ago, when the first fish crawled up onto the land.
Our land.
You get back in the sea.
You finned c$nt.
Coming up here, onto our land with your barely developed lungs and your hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow for fish.
Get back in the sea.
My name's Paul Nuttall of UKIP and I say we need to ensure the brightest and best fish stay in the sea and concentrate on making it aquatically prosperous instead of coming up here onto the land and beginning the process of evolution that will eventually lead to all life on Earth as we know it.
Well this is actually quite sad.
And if you're referring to the water, can't you just seal a heavy duty camera and use that? Is there something about Deep water that desaturates all light that passes through even less than a meter of it?
> Yes, deep water adds a bluish haze to photos, which is caused by the fact that only certain wavelengths penetrate that far down compared to others
Something's gone badly wrong here. By definition, the light has passed through less than a meter of water. How can you be talking about "only certain wavelengths penetrat[ing] that far"?
We perceive the world with a set of instruments which are not something you would design from scratch! However they are exquisitely refined for the job in hand. They are also bloody odd.
Your eyes constantly wizz around (a sort of directed scanning) to paint a picture of what is going on around you - generally in front. Your fovea is hi res (that's what you see in focus) and the rest is a bit peripheral, so "fuzzy". The periphery is highly tuned to look for broad signs of threats and will go ping for any sort of movement. If the periphery goes ping then the fovea will be deployed to look for more detail.
Now we get to rods and cones ...
You also have rather more sensors - sound, and touch and more. The whole thing is a right old complicated mess - some bits work well and some don't.
That's only because natural light isn't available. Modern diving lights use inaccurate color-rendering cool white LEDs heavy in the blue spectrum. To get the reds, a diver would actually need a second light source that has red LEDs. So much depends on the narrow color spectrum profile of these shitty LEDs. But incan light sources, no longer made and sold but for vintage collectables, burn tungsten, so the color spectrum is wide and very much like that of the sun, though warmer than the sun at noon, and they always produce a perfect color rendition. High CRI LEDs from Nichia and Cree are getting closer to natural light, with 93+ CRI and warmer color temperatures with pinker tints, but dive light manufacturers have not discovered these yet. So the best a diving photographer can do is to search for and find a bright halogen light source around 3200K. But instead, they shoot washed-out RAW digital images and use digital color post-processing resulting in something that can't ever be seen with human eyes in the real world because it doesn't exist. So, lies.
I'm all about breeding <endangered life thing> massively even if we the price is to fry and eat a small amount of them as a result. Each extra dollar to conservation of obscure animals counts in large amounts, but frogfish reproduction has some characteristics that made very complicated to breed them. They can't breed in normal aquariums.