Pedro's Photo Journal

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[PedroYoung]

Been pretty busy with the new tank, but took a break this morning and shot some pics after feeding.

this one's kinda blurry cause I had to shoot pointing down through the front glass, but I'm starting to see why they're called "rainbow" hornets
rainbow hornets-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

and speaking of rainbow, whew, this orange peel keeps getting more and more crazy
orangepeel-74 by Peter Young, on Flickr

orangepeel-75 by Peter Young, on Flickr

orangepeel-76 by Peter Young, on Flickr

This bowerbanki was just opening back up after munching some mysis shrimp.
bowerbanki-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lil stellaria-6 by Peter Young, on Flickr

This jelly bean still has his mouth full, bad manners.
jellybean sm-33 by Peter Young, on Flickr

jellybean sm-34 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-21 by Peter Young, on Flickr

blueraven-10 by Peter Young, on Flickr

follow along if you like what you see. Thanks for stopping in.

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Nothing like a new coral to get the camera working. Picked up this LSD Dreams chalice yesterday. Think it's ok to call it a colony (in today's terminology at least). Still calibrating the color on this guy and he got ticked when I started spinning him around to get shots on all sides. Was focusing on the skirt, so front of the shot. As always, click on the picture if you're interested in the shot details.

lsd-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd by Peter Young, on Flickr

I think my yellow tang flashed in front of this one, but you can see a new mouth forming..
lsd-8 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd-7 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd-6 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd-5 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lsd-4 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Also grabbed this big jellybean, all blue except this little sliver of red

jellybean huge by Peter Young, on Flickr

Thanks for stopping in, let me know what ya think.

P

 

[PedroYoung]

some more LSD's
LSD-11 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-10 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-9 by Peter Young, on Flickr

 

[PedroYoung]

Back at it today. Guess my subject might get repetitive, I go through spurts of what's catching my eye and obsess for a little while, but hey, this is really for me anyway.

jellybean sm-35 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-12 by Peter Young, on Flickr

SICK!! (in the good way)
LSD-14 by Peter Young, on Flickr

notice the little bit of red creeping in on that mouth.....
LSD-15 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Really want to start playing with focus stacking. Gotta get a new software add-on and a new piece of gear, but imagine combining these 2 pics (along with 6-8 stages in between).

orangepeel-77 by Peter Young, on Flickr

orangepeel-78 by Peter Young, on Flickr

blood diamond-4 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Thanks all, enjoy the day!!
P

 

[PedroYoung]

OK, OK, enough of the new chalice, let's shoot something else,
Well, OK just a couple quickies then on to other subjects.

LSD-16 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-17 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lightningtip-5 by Peter Young, on Flickr

torch by Peter Young, on Flickr

acro-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

nub by Peter Young, on Flickr

plesiastrea-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Hope you smiled!! Hope you find some joy today.

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Pleased with a couple of these. Haven't shot my @WWC space invader mycadium in a while

space invader-5 by Peter Young, on Flickr

space invader-6 by Peter Young, on Flickr

flamethrower-7 by Peter Young, on Flickr

flamethrower-8 by Peter Young, on Flickr

stellaria-68 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-19 by Peter Young, on Flickr

gonni-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

gonni-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

couple colony shots. I need to clean the corraline off the glass....

Stellaria-69 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Orangepeel-79 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Smile, you could be at work (or if you are you could be working)

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Man, it would be so much easier to shoot pics if there weren't any fish in the tank. Getting shots of this Goniopora is a nightmare, even worse with the flipping fish knocking it around. Still, it's a beautiful coral. Only kept a couple shots out of prob 20 I took and these are still a little blurry, but you get the idea....

goni-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

goni-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Couple keepers from this morning.

lil stellaria-7 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lil stellaria-8 by Peter Young, on Flickr

lil stellaria-9 by Peter Young, on Flickr

jellybean sm-36 by Peter Young, on Flickr

LSD-20 by Peter Young, on Flickr

blasto-4 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Love every weekend like it's the weekend
Your pal, P

 

[PedroYoung]

Been a minute, had some major losses to some of my fav corals (mostly chalices) which bummed me out and killed my pic taking. My new tank has been looking good though and trying my hand at fish pics again. Still have a lot of work to do on my fish pic skills, but here's a few.

bimac by Peter Young, on Flickr

blondenaso by Peter Young, on Flickr

yellow-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Take care and stay healthy
P

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Been a minute, had some major losses to some of my fav corals (mostly chalices) which bummed me out and killed my pic taking. My new tank has been looking good though and trying my hand at fish pics again. Still have a lot of work to do on my fish pic skills, but here's a few.

bimac by Peter Young, on Flickr

blondenaso by Peter Young, on Flickr

yellow-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Take care and stay healthy
P

Sorry about the losses. Glad to hear the new tank is doing good. The pics are great as usual!

 

[maroun.c]

Sad to hear about the losses you've had
Hope ull build up the collection back.
Amazing pictures. Interesting very slow shutter speeds, didn't think one could pull a nonplussed tank shot that slow even with flow off and a good tripod, clearly u can and the added DOF is just amazing.

 

[PedroYoung]

Sad to hear about the losses you've had
Hope ull build up the collection back.
Amazing pictures. Interesting very slow shutter speeds, didn't think one could pull a nonplussed tank shot that slow even with flow off and a good tripod, clearly u can and the added DOF is just amazing.

thanks, the lens I'm using won't let me get any quicker on the shutter unless I go full manual mode, was kinda playing around to see what I'd get just using Aperture priority. Got another couple cool shots yesterday.

tanggang by Peter Young, on Flickr

regal-9 by Peter Young, on Flickr

really like this peek-a-boo shot
peekaboo by Peter Young, on Flickr

 

[maroun.c]

Was talking about the 5-15 shutter speeds on then coral shots.
Love that regal did it behave with the chalices ?

 

[PedroYoung]

Was talking about the 5-15 shutter speeds on then coral shots.
Love that regal did it behave with the chalices ?

Oh yeah, takes a still tank and tripod (and lots of retakes cause my fish seem to also want to get in the shots). The regal has been in a tank w/o corals until about a month ago. So far no interest in chalice, leptastrea, favia or pectina. We'll see when I start moving in zoas.................fingers crossed.

 

[PedroYoung]

A few more fish pics. Been pretty busy. Prob should have cropped and processed some of these a little more, but didn't

Love this shot of the Regal, showing his misbar and the transitioning juvenile spot.

gang-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

gang by Peter Young, on Flickr

blonde by Peter Young, on Flickr

Hope you enjoy!!
P

 

[PedroYoung]

Been a while since I've updated this thread (or took any pics really). Started moving some corals into the new tank and have added some acros (courtesy of my man @Budman's Corals). Have a shipment coming in Thur from @Zoanthids so might update again soon

shortcake-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

heartbreaker-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

foxflame by Peter Young, on Flickr

blooddiamond by Peter Young, on Flickr

blueraven-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

wolverine-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

wolverine by Peter Young, on Flickr

stellaria by Peter Young, on Flickr

jelloshot by Peter Young, on Flickr

blondies by Peter Young, on Flickr

Hope you see something that makes you smile!

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Been a while again!! Moving a bunch of stuff into the new tank as well as adding some new stuff. Learning how to get decent shots on
1-different lighting
2-different (much thicker and ultra pure) glass
3-different subjects

thunderbird by Peter Young, on Flickr

Added a bunch of zoas

fruitloops by Peter Young, on Flickr

suckup by Peter Young, on Flickr

jelloshot-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

rasta by Peter Young, on Flickr

bluebooberry by Peter Young, on Flickr

yoda-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

suckup-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

bluehornet-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

bowser by Peter Young, on Flickr

And moved my Acan Maxima into the new tank (he's very happy)

acan maxima-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

acan maxima by Peter Young, on Flickr

mummy eye-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

orangepeel-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

mummyeye by Peter Young, on Flickr

And new, from Disney+, Baby Yoda!!!! Ain't he cute?!?!

baby yoda by Peter Young, on Flickr

Thanks for stopping in, let me know what you think

P

 

[PedroYoung]

Just can't get enough of this Acan Maxima, looks so amazing under the lighting in the new tank.

maxima by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-2 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-3 by Peter Young, on Flickr

maxima-4 by Peter Young, on Flickr

He's come a long way since this pic (original posting as Acan maxima with potential from @CherryCorals back in Oct 2015).
aug116 by Peter Young, on Flickr

Thanks for checking in
P