Lens Artists Photo Challenge – Striped & Checked

Lionfish 2021©Isadora DeLaVega

Photograph taken at the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. It’s located in Sarasota, Florida. A fun educational museum featuring exhibits of marine life. There’s a laboratory for the care of injured marine life.

Lionfish have 18 venomous spines: 2 pelvic spines, and 13 dorsal spines.

Lionfish 2021©Isadora DeLaVega

Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as lion fish, native to the Indo-Pacific. Also called zebra fish, fire fish, turkey fish, tasty fish or butterfly-cod. It’s characterized by conspicuous warning colorization with red, white, creamy, or black bands showy pectoral fins, and venomous spike sin rays.

       Blue Tang    2021©Isadora DeLaVega

Blue Tang is the common name of several species of surgeonfish. Ctenochaetus binotatus, commonly known as the two spot surgeonfish, is a tang fish native to the Indo-Pacific region.

       Corals    2021©Isadora DeLaVega

Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cindaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

       Corals    2021©Isadora DeLaVega

Hope you enjoyed my miniature tour  for you @ Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.

~~~~~~~~~

Lens Artists Photo Challenge – Striped & Checked

Patti has challenged us to post photos displaying emotions.

to join in click here

For future challenges follow one or all of these four moderators:

Week 1 – Patti 

                   Week 2 – Ann-Christine 

Week 3 – Amy 

Week 4 – Tina 

Tags: #aquarium, #corals, #florida-marinelife, #isadoraartandphotography, #LensArtistsPhotoChallenge, #marinelife, #marinelifelaboratory, #MoteMarineLaboratoryand aquarium, #museum, #photography

• January 23, 2021
• Art, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, My Photo's, Photography
• 11 Comments