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What is it?

Postby greencardigan on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:50 am

Taken with the sigma 105 at 1:1

Any ideas what it is?

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Re: What is it?

Postby ATJ on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:59 am

I'll PM you the answer to allow others to guess.
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Re: What is it?

Postby dviv on Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:04 am

Easy! :mrgreen:

Will let other guess too :cough:

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Re: What is it?

Postby Handlebars on Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:09 am

Aiptasia? LOL

I know!

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Re: What is it?

Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:31 am

Who gives a toss what it is because it is a great photo :lol: :lol:
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Re: What is it?

Postby Geoff on Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:36 am

Mould?
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Re: What is it?

Postby tsanglabs on Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:44 pm

No idea. But that just makes it an even more interesting photo.

It looks to me to be some sort of coral or something that lives in/on coral. The first thing that struck me though was that it looked like it was a photo taken of an organism under a microscope.
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Re: What is it?

Postby colin_12 on Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:22 pm

I like it just for the abstract value. Nice colour too.

I would lean towards the cntre of an anemone.
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Re: What is it?

Postby Bindii on Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:25 pm

sirhc55 wrote:Who gives a toss what it is because it is a great photo :lol: :lol:


What he said... *nods*

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Re: What is it?

Postby Travy on Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:29 pm

Very interesting shot..

I have no idea what it is..

looks like fungus or something :?:
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Re: What is it?

Postby Big Red on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:43 pm

spawning coral ? :cough:
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Re: What is it?

Postby Myrtle on Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:54 pm

okay - I would have to say one of those sea anemone thingies.


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Re: What is it?

Postby whitey on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:19 pm

Wow - amazing. The colours are great. So what is it?
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Re: What is it?

Postby chrisk on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:46 pm

Bindii wrote:
sirhc55 wrote:Who gives a toss what it is because it is a great photo :lol: :lol:


What he said... *nods*

:wink:


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Re: What is it?

Postby greencardigan on Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:37 am

A few of you guessed close and a few of you must have marine tanks. :o

It a corallimorph up close. They're closely related to anemones.

Thanks for the comments too.

Here's the whole thing.

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Re: What is it?

Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:02 am

Kind of looks like a Mushroom of the Sea. :)
Regardless it's beautiful.
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Re: What is it?

Postby colin_12 on Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:10 pm

Not at all what I was expecting the whole animal to look like.
Still pretty though.
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