Electrified

At the New England Aquarium they keep an electric eel in one of the tanks. There is a detector that shows how much electricity the eel emmitts. Since they constantly use low power electiricity for navigation purposes, you get to hear the pulsing.

I never was able to be there when it send out a powerful stroke.

in the dark

New England Aquarium, Botson, summer 2014

Touch tank

The New England Aquarium has a touch tank where you are allowed to reach in and touch the fish - mostly rays - that are swimming by. You get to notice there that you can well see them when they swim but that they are near impossible to spot when they settled into the sand ever so slightly.

This one is quite easy to make out. But check out this flounder in a different display.

Would you have made this one out if there was no side lighting? I was having fun photographing the little guys. They seemed so curious!

Jelly Time

Jelly Fish are really hard to keep in tanks because of the way they move and live in the water. But the New England Aquarium, Boston, does have severaly species on display.

Due to the dark and the fact that they are constantly moving they are hard to photograph but mezermerizing to watch.

Stripy

This really stripy fish is quite fashionable. Photographed at the New England Aquarium, Boston, summer 2014.

In The Eye Of The Shark

The feeling of a shark looking at you - even through thick glass - is somewhat strange. This one was looking pretty innocent, though.

New England Aquarium, Boston, August 2014.

Hair-Do

This guy - seen at the New England Aquarium, Boston - had about the weirdest look I ever expected.

Is he mad at me?

He is so fluffy and cute. But I can not avoid the feeling that he is mad at me. Do you see that stare? He was too cute, though, to take it personal.

Jelly Fish in Blue

This is a very interesting display of jelly fish in the New England Aquarium. The blue light - or the lack of more light - makes them hard to photograph but also great to look at.

Penguin Couple

We are just back from another trip to New England and we did get to go to the New England Aquarium in Boston angain.

Here is a really cute penguin couple that we got to watch as they are preening eachother.

A colored Bird

Taken on a visit to the zoo - ZOOM in Gelsenkirchen - in 2011.

Tiger's Time

This tiger in a zoo was keeping a very close look on the people outside the glass.

One more butterfly?

Is there room for one more butterfly?

This one is so colorful and the rolled up tounge is really nice.

balance act

This one is almost falling off the flower, you would think.

Blue

Butterfly

The Orange

Another butterfly from the butterfly house.

The girl and the Butterfly

I took photos in the butterfly house as you know when I met this girl and the butterfly. I asked her permission and took these photos.

beauty on the flower

this butterfly was reating on this beautiful large flower blosom.

See through butterfly

In the local butterfly house I like photographing the transparent little ones.

hatching

These butterflies are hatching. We found them in the middle of the butterfly house we visited.