10-13-10 – Fish

Didn’t feel much for this contest, unfortunately. But one can’t be thrilled with all themes, I suppose.

I wasn’t loving this one or last week’s. However, a week at the beach has netted me quite a few shots for future themes so I’ve got that going for me.

Okay, U-Man, The frog-gulp was pretty cool, but I’m going to have to admit that I was expecting to see the stereotypical Field and Stream cover-worthy Bigmouth-breaking-the-surface-to-snag-a-spinner shot.

Heh. If my memory is correct, those F&S covers showing the action shots of fish are paintings. My brain can’t even get around how difficult that would be to capture photographically.

/cue the I-told-you-so photo link in 3…2…1…

🙂

I’ve seen one actual photo like that (and a bunch of paintings). I don’t have the link. It was in a how-to fishing book at the W-mart.

and the artist is Gigi D’Agostino.

….and now there’s an idea for “the song….”

Okay, U-Man, The frog-gulp was pretty cool, but I’m going to have to admit that I was expecting to see the stereotypical Field and Stream cover-worthy Bigmouth-breaking-the-surface-to-snag-a-spinner shot.

Heh. If my memory is correct, those F&S covers showing the action shots of fish are paintings. My brain can’t even get around how difficult that would be to capture photographically.

/cue the I-told-you-so photo link in 3…2…1…

🙂

I tried for that kind of shot, it takes a lot of patience to shoot salmon swimming upstream. I spent 4 hours over 2 very chilly mornings waiting for that kind of shot. I got maybe 15 pics, and only 1-2 are good (in focus, recognizable as a fish, etc). Since I’m not a TFer you’ll have to wait to see it.

I think the tilapia cost around $3 or $4, and was a whole lot more fun. Especially threatening the kids.

LOL Kat looks less than thrilled to be holding the fish in the fish slap pic.
That fish head soup looks yummy BTW … not really but great shot!

LOL Kat looks less than thrilled to be holding the fish in the fish slap pic.
That fish head soup looks yummy BTW … not really but great shot!

Thanks 🙂 She was actually trying really hard not to laugh. Back story: The kids were being really rambunctious – pretty much getting out of control – so I literally yelled out of desperation: “don’t MAKE me get the fish!”. They stopped and asked “what?!?”, so I replied, “I have a fish, and I’m not afraid to use it!”.

Well, they were still carrying on, so I called them into the back yard, gave Kat the fish, and started taking pictures.
(didn’t hit them with it, but they were so derailed that it worked)

The soup one I *had* to take. I’ve had that damn song stuck in my head since the contest was announced 😕

Oh. And here’s a true fish story. –

This pike was caught by my daughter; ice fishing with a sucker. It’s a nice fish and pike are really tasty so we kept it and cleaned it. If any of you have ever cleaned some fish with the kids watching, you’ll know that they always want you to cut open the stomach and see what is in there. (or maybe I have gross kids and nephews…or maybe I’m gross for teaching them this disgusting trick) Whatever. We cleaned this fish about 30-45 minutes after catching it. On the kitchen counter. After taking the sucker out of the stomach, one of the kids noticed that it’s gills were moving. We put it in a bowl of water and it was, like, totally fine!

Then he ran out of oxygen before morning and wasn’t fine anymore. Bummer. True story though. Mopsy can verify.