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Aquarium Entrance It's a giant crocodile, get it? |
Aquarium Signs I like that there's a blue-tongued skink on there. |
Broken Inflatable Crocodile A cigarette burn? How rude. |
Storm Incoming Hmm, it's looking a little dark... |
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No Storm Yet ...but not here. |
Even Darker Okay, we're about to get rained on. |
Rain Begins We managed to get into the aquarium *just* as the water started coming down. Go us. |
Fish The first pictures I got were of the main tank. |
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Main Tank It was dark, and I wasn't allowed to use the flash. |
Cownose Ray But some shots came through anyway. |
Yellow Fish Eventually, I started to get the hang of what I needed to do to get some decent shots. |
Cownose Ray, II They're not perfect, but they're okay. |
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Moray Eel As I've probably mentioned before, I need to run these through some post-processing software. |
Cownose Ray, III Just brightening them up would do wonders... |
Moray Eel, II For now, at least some of the colors show up well. |
More Big Fish And the shapes, as long as you don't mind the focus. |
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Piranha I think we had moved onto another tank by this point. |
Small Fish Or at least, these weren't in the main tank... |
Small Fish, II What reflection was that? Odd. |
Lungfish It was too dark to get pictures of their labels, at least if I expected to read them... |
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Pike So instead, I have to guess at the labels. |
More Fish Definitely needs brightening, but otherwise looks pretty good. |
Chameleon There we go, an animal that was already lit! |
Pre-Lit Enclosure A couple of small fish varieties looked pretty good here. |
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More Lizards Gaah! Why didn't I get a picture of the label? |
Goldfish Well, they're probably not, but they look like it. |
Snapping Turtle It looks like debris. I wouldn't mess with it. |
Second Snapping Turtle Isn't that cute? |
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Second Snapping Turtle, II Well, it was cute until it opened its mouth. |
Otter Sea mammals are so *cute*! |
Asian Carp Zapper Or at least an explanation of how we're keeping them out of Lake Michigan for a while. |
Asian Carp They're apparently tasty, and dangerous. |
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Asian Carp, II Or at least I think it's still an Asian Carp. |
Sea Dragon I really tried to get some decent pictures of these guys. |
Sea Dragon, II They're detailed, and flashes aren't allowed... |
Sea Dragon, III ...but I think I did a fairly good job of it. |
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Sea Dragon, IV They're really careful to keep people from using flashes. |
Sea Dragon, V I'm not sure what it is about them that would be damaged, but given how fragile they look, I'm sure it couldn't be good for them. |
Protected by CITES I don't think it's the same CITES that I know and love. |
Another Sea Dragon I hadn't noticed that there were two tanks. |
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Old Fish Aah, dinosaur-age fish! |
Crab That's a big crab. (And pretty.) |
Upside-Down Jellyfish These pictures turned out pretty well. |
Upside-Down Jellyfish, II I think I got their whole breathing process... |
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Upside-Down Jellyfish, III And there's even some fine detail there. Go me! |
Clownfish Hiding in the back there. Again, I need to touch up the colors. |
Bioluminescence Now *these* jellyfish were cool. |
Bioluminescence, II And really, really difficult to photograph. |
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Goldfish-Like More big fish. I'm not sure when we changed sections again. |
Multiple Fish I guess we didn't change that much. |
Red Fish Blue fish? |
Turtle Not so dangerous looking, this one. |
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Tree Python I think the camouflage still comes through. |
Big Snake It was fake, though. |
Real Big Snake Unlike this python... |
Big Snake Climbing, I This snake decided that it wanted to climb up its cage. |
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Big Snake Climbing, II Pythons are *big*, you see. |
Big Snake Climbing, III It was pretty neat seeing just how big they were, as it climbed up the glass... |
Big Snake Climbing, IV With my hand, for scale. |
Big Snake Climbing, V Is he going to make it out... |
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Big Snake Falling ...I guess not. |
Big Snake Falling, II Poor guy, everyone was laughing at him for his failure. *pats the python* |
Poison Tree Frogs Look at those little yellow deadly things, aren't they CUTE? |
A Bird It turned out well, even if I couldn't identify it. |
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Tiny Fish The last fish picture I got on the way out of the aquarium. |
Segway Tours I hadn't seen this before - tours of Chicago on Segways. Interesting. |
Segway Tours, II They were too expensive for me, though. |
FA:IL That's an interesting fail state. |
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