Pictures from Underwater Life
The underwater life in the Red Sea is extremely fascinating and manifold,
and I went for snorkeling for many times. Due to the fact, that, after an
initial "in formation overflow", scenes and fish species are repeating,
I decided to sort the pictures according to the species instead of dayly reports.
It really is not trivial to make good pictures from fish, because they mostly
don´t keep still and it is difficult to see on a small and not too light display
what will be on the picture. However: with a bit of luck and some
post-processing on the PC, you may get rather decent pictures. Here you get a
selection of about 1.000 exposures.
According to the coloring, I have to say in the face of camera technique, that
the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT3, which is water-tight down to 12 m, has a special
setting for underwater pictures, mainly filtering blue components that are
enhanced due to the water environment. Using this setting and furthermore
processing the pictures enhancing contrast and coloring, the pictures also get
better.
Each fish species comes with one picture or with a link on the caption and the
picture leading you to a subpage with more pictures of that species;
on that subpage (or t the original caption, if there is only one picture) there
also is a link to an explaining site like Wikipedia or the like.
At the end of the page, there are a few pictures of the reef and the corals as
well as some unknown fish species.
Trying to identify fish with the help of the internet, I found Günter Indra´s page. A soulmate, "weird" like me to upload pictures to the internet and claiming to be as correct as possible with the identification. I contacted him when this page was first uploaded, and he really helped me with Identification of several species as yet unknown to me. Thank you very much, Günther!
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Bluefin Trevally (Caranx melampygus)
Yellowfin Goatfish (Mulloidichthys vanicolensis)
Arabian Monocle Bream (Scolopsis ghanam)
Red Sea Sailfin Tang (Zebrasoma desjardinii)
Daisy Parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus)
Orange lined Triggerfish (Balistapus undulatus)
Collector urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)
Red Octopus (hidden under the rock in great parts)
Rainbow wrass species (Coris aygula)
Green Birdmouth Wrass (Gomphosus caeruleus klunzingeri)
White-spotted Puffer (Arothron hispidus)
A great meeting of four different fish:
Dusky Parrotfish (Scarus niger) in the foreground,
Striped
Bristletooth (Ctenochaetus striatus) behind, then
Purple tang
(Zebrasoma xanthurum) to the right, and
a parrot fish left behind (maybe
viridescent
parrotfish -
Calotomus viridescens)
Many thanks to
Günther Indra for this identification!
Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa) and
Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa)
Now, here some more pictures from the reef and the corals and as yet unidentified fish:
Which coral species?
Which coral species?
Which coral species?
Which coral species?
The steep escarpment of the reef
Reef escarpment
Do you know this fish species? (the big one)?
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