March 25th 2007: Stone Mountain Park and Georgia Aquarium

All of the movies are from the Georgia aquarium. Generally, if I have a picture and a movie of the same thing, the movie is better. Also, if there are multiple videos in a sequence (1, 2, 3, ...), it happens that the first is usually the best. I'd encourage you to watch all the videos enlarged: they're more impressive that way. Some specific remarks:

• As you can see, the fish tank, big tank, and beluga whale tank are all impressively large.
• The movie of sea dragons makes it appear that I've focused the camera on floating debris. But sea dragons are not floating debris! They're ephemeral, skeletal creatures. Pause and enlarge the video to study them. Or view and read about sea dragons on the web.
• African penguins are bouncy.
• African cichlids are colorful.
• The way jellyfish (sea nettles, to be precise regarding the species) move is mesmerizing. Sadly, at this time my camera was running out of batteries and my backup set was in the car. The four movies I took of jellyfish are each frustratingly short. Yet, although no one movie captures a whole cycle of the contractions and expansions the body goes through, each contains segments of the movement, conveying the motion's essence.

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Breaded fried catfish, tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, and lemon. At top, corn and black-eyed peas.
Fodder for Panorama from Your Dekalb Farmers Market
Fodder for Panorama in Stone Mountain Park