A few top down shots from tonight

[melev]

[cweber]

Very nice as usual melev! May i ask what kind of camera you use? And what do i look for when buying a new one. Mine just doesnt cut it anymore.

[melev]

Very nice as usual melev! May i ask what kind of camera you use? And what do i look for when buying a new one. Mine just doesnt cut it anymore.

It is a Fuji S602Z that I've had for several years:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujis602z/

And this is my advice on shopping for a camera:
http://www.melevsreef.com/buying_camera.html

[jojo22]

Looks good Melev, making me jealous as always!!!

[cweber]

Thanks Melev! I didnt even notice that on your site.

[melev]

Those are linked in the left column of the Fotos page.

[melev]

A few days later, my clam looked like this:


So I peeled away the offending zoanthids and it is open again.

[cweber]

They grow that fast? Why wont mine do that. hehe

[dakar]

Marc have you spilled the beans to your trick of taking top-down pics?

Really looks fantastic!

[melev]

They were growing pretty quickly, building a bridge of babies on the 'trunk' of mature polyps. And each night they tried to reach across more and more. That day, that is what occurred.

It isn't a secret, Dave. All my settings are the same as normal, shooting in macro mode. I use a top down photo box: http://www.melevsreef.com/topdown.html