Fish Faces

Angel Cegarra · Issue 65, Mar/Apr 2012 · pp. 36–39

Products mentioned: Canon EOS 400D, Sigma EF 50mm f/2.8 Compact Macro, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, Sea&Sea DX-350D, Sea&Sea YS-250

Sometime after we have completed our first diving certification and with not many dives in our logbook, we soon start to feel more and more comfortable with the equipment and spend less energy in our underwater experience. We are able to enjoy the fascinating world that opens its door to ourselves and start to discover hundreds of new creatures that appear in front of our diving mask. Probably we will get one of those uw identification guide books for marine life. There is a strong desire to understand how the fishes and marine invertebrates live and interact with each other. Looking at the pictures in the book we recognize the body of the fishes we watched diving, the colors are the same and the shape of the animal matches with the mental image we made. Those are flat pictures, taken from a lateral point of view and are very useful to identify the animal and learn its scientific name. T…