the Jellyfish

Consider this a memory post.  I'm posting a lot of pictures, even though they aren't of that much interest to most of you, but they'll be here so Terry and I can remember a great day.

The jellyfish, what can I say?  I really do love them.  Translucent, ethereal and sublime, I find them endlessly fascinating.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium 

pulled out all the stops for this exhibit

Here we go with the jellies.

These next two are a series of one jelly

captured in motion.

They're so smooth,

yet raggedy at the same time.

I can't remember for sure, 

I think these are crown jellyfish.

Most of these look much better

if you click to enlarge them.

I'd never seen black jellys before.

These are upside down jellyfish.

They live on the ocean floor.

So fluid

They also come in polka dots

These next shots 

are just because I love their motion

This reminds me of Mikhail Baryshnikov,

flying across the stage.

Just one moment later . . .

They also had a lovely art exhibit.

This was made from a plastic soda bottle.

Much better use of a plastic bottle

than throwing it in the trash.

I had pictures of Sea Dragons last time,

but had to include another .

This isn't an exciting picture, 

but I loved the "look" 

on the seahorses face.

I'm including this picture 

because if I ever get another aquarium, 

I want it to look just like this.

I took this with the extreme zoom on my SX40.

(most of these shots were taken with my iPhone).

I've never seen a seal smile before.

What a sweet face.

It was a truly wonderful day,

reminding me,

once again,

 that