Running around the WWW

--Looking for stuff I lost when the HD crashed, I found these, from My early days. C4000 pics.





http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
tsiya [Bob]

....can't decide which one I like better. Looks like those teensy little fishes like their own 'space' in the leaf pools! The second shot has wonderful colors, too!

Glad you resurrected these two wonderful shots!
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Lucy
U ZI owner!
Olympus C30-20Z
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FCAS Member #98
'Photography is the art of seeing what others do not.'

I think I've been taking too many Duck pictures as the first one looks like the eye and head of a duck - maybe too many chasers.

Interesting shots.

CC

3D and Frame Gallery
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Canadian Club (with a chaser)

Glad your finding some stuff Bob, especially that first one. It's a great capture! I enjoy that shot. How much did you actually lose?

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Andy (Critiques Always Welcome)
FCAS Member #120
C750
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--I can't actually say how much was lost, since I've been trying to wear out 3 cameras since I retired. Really, the fun is in the taking, so I'll just take some more. I can burn discs, and store stuff on Photobucket, I just need to do it right away instead of waiting.
tsiya [Bob]

Some of your best. Now back them up! B^)

don

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dwn

... I hadn't seen these before so I appreciate your digging them back up. Some good biology lessons as well as lovely pics.
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Sharon

http://www.pbase.com/slengst/galleries

C-5060; C-765

--When the Panama Canal was being built, Yellow Fever was killing workers, big time. These little guys, Gambusia affinis, were introduced to eat the mosquito larvae. It seems that they did.

I have a Friend in Australia that regrets these critters were ever turned loose there. If Gambusias were bigger, Great White Sharks would run from them. Common name around here is Skeeterfish.

They are live bearers, related closely to the Mollies, and it seems that they are born to eat mosquito larvae. I suppose that once all the Australian mosquito larvae were gone, these little redneck fishies went looking for alternate groceries. My pond ran too low last winter, so I need to go net some more of these.

There seems to be a lot of sexual hanky panky going on with the Gambusias and Mollies, everytime I go to the creek, I see some new variation. The really wild color variants are hard to catch, the pretty ones stand out so much that they must be at the end of the food chain.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
tsiya [Bob]

Would these guys survive in stock tanks? No West Nile virus, in WA state - yet. Only state in the lower 48 as yet uneffected. But its in Oregon so its only a matter of time.

I net larva out of my stock tank to feed my Rainbowfish which would also do the job but I'm not sure how well they'd do in a stock tank, either. Pretty sensitive to cold temperatures.
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Sharon

http://www.pbase.com/slengst/galleries

C-5060; C-765

Bob, and All,

A month is a long time here and it has been that since we have heard from ya pal.

I'm hopin' that you are OK.

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John,

'Lord help me to be the man my labrador thought I was'