Yesterday my office mate and I visited the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach to scope out potential field trip activities for our Zoology students.  I was able to take along my camera and photograph some of the unique life they have there.  This type of shooting carries with it several difficulties, including low light (I shot at ISO 1000 or great the entire time) and curved glass on displays (autofocus has a hard time with this, I found out).  However, its also really fun to shoot here because of the huge diversity you get to photograph in a very short time.

Copperband Butterflyfish, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA, October 2009

Sea Jelly, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA, October 2009

I also had the opportunity to play with some really fun abstract images at the aquarium as well; something I don’t get a chance to do very often.  This image is an intimate shot of a sea anenome:

Sea anenome abstract, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, CA, October 2009

Over the next few days, I’ll share some more images from this really unique and fun location.  We’ll be visiting again next month, so the lessons about shooting under these conditions can be applied again as well.