California Horned Shark
Over the last couple of weeks I have been very busy and just completed presentations for three camera clubs; GRIPS, Trillium Photographic Club and Orillia District Camera Club. I had a ton of fun presenting for these clubs and met lots of great folks at each of the presentations as well.
On this past Friday (November 14th) I decided to take a day off and visit Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto, Ontario. I have long been fascinated with the creature of the oceans and the Ripley Aquarium is a fantastic place to get a close-up view of some the strange fishes that inhabit the world’s oceans. I took along my Nikon D800 and my compact Sony RX100. Since the Sony RX100 will focus down to 5cm it easily became my preferred camera for creating photos of the fishes through the aquarium glass. Here is a collection of my favorite images created on this visit to the aquarium.
Please do click on each of the photos to see the larger, sharper version.
Stonefish
Lionfish
Jellyfish
Wobbegone Shark
Alaskan King Crab
Swell Shark
Andrew McLachlan 
Wow cool Andrew!
Curious about other technical issues. Like are you allowed a tripod? I assume you were using flash too, yes? Any particular parameters there?
Brenda and I were just in Toronto too. I attended the Photoshop conference and she shopped a bit. Places like this will certainly be on the agenda the next time!
Don
Thanks so much Don, very much appreciated. I do believe folks can take in tripods, but with the crowds of people I think it would be an exercise in frustration. Yes, I did use the pop-up flash on my Sony RX100, which worked well for each of the images posted in today’s blog post. I used my Nikon D800 without flash and an ISO of 2000 for the sea nettles that I will feature in an upcoming post. Definitely put it on your list of places to visit next time you make the trip down and feel free to give me a heads-up if you would like to meet there.
I love aquaria and snorkelling, the world beneath the surface is great! Fantastic photographs, how did you take them without the flash reflecting on the glass? Did you press the camera against the glass? Were you allowed to flash and didn’t it disturb those fine creatures?
Kind regards,
Tieme
Hi Tieme, thanks so much for stopping by, much appreciated. Yes, if you position the camera lens up against the aquarium glass the flash will not reflect back in the resulting images. I will often use a rubber lens hood to protect the glass from scratches and these critters were undeterred by the flash.
All really cool images Andrew!
Much appreciated Denise!
Fantastic images Andrew. It’s a great place isn’t it.
Thanks so much Edith! You bet it is, I had a ton of fun there!