coral skeleton

[surfn]

was cleaning the glass, and accidentally broke off a branch on the tort.

taken with canon 40D, Sigma 150mm macro lens, and 36+20+12mm kenko extension tubes

(original image, no cropping)

 

[ficklefins]

Crazy pic! I feel like I am at a coral autopsy.

 

[Reef Pets]

Nice macro!

 

[oceanparadise1]

thats an AWSOME pic! thanks for sharing

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Wow that's really great! That's the first pic I have seen like that! New ideas for tank photos! I love it! :D

 

[Dihydrogen Monoxide]

skeletal matrix are very interesting to see! they can tell you more about the corals location in nature (or aquarium) than most other parts of the coral. Growth patern will tell you tons also! Great Pic! you can clearly see the septa and the basal plate, also the healing forming a new coenosarc which is how new growth on sps (commonly white) that is non-photosynthetic gets nutrition to the new polyps!

Thanks for sharing that!

 

[JGoslee]

That's a neat looking pic.

 

[FateX8]

nice pic

 

[surfn]

thanks guys.

kinda reminds me of a snowflake. :)

i had to darken it b/c the brighter the pic got, the less definition/contrast you could see in the white skeletal base, thus you couldn't really make out any of the ridges/crevices.

if i had to do it over again, i would try to take the picture at several different f/stops and do an image stack so i could crop/enlarge and make it a bit sharper. i really need to learn how to do that.