Best of Mike #177

I don't keep the bad pixtures.... but I do keep the mediocre ones.

Here's a pretty good example of why.

If this was a better pixture.... you would see clearly the Red Snapping Shrimp, hiding under this Corkscrew Anemone.

Although it's the Anemone that's in focus, I'm sure that my intended subject was the really the Shrimp.... for two reasons.

I've seen lots of Corkscrew Anemones.... and have some good pixtures of them.

But I have never actually seen a Red Snapping Shrimp.

Doing  the research, to figure out what that "red thing" might be, I figured out what it is.... and also learned that they live in symbiotic relationships with this kind of anemone.

So when we see a Corkscrew Anemone, in the future.... we will be looking underneath with much more interest and care.

Then, it's just a matter of being patient enough to get the right subject in sharp focus.... and you end up with a good or great pixture.