Shutterbug Spies, Week 2

Challenge: Patterns

This week's challenge was hard only b/c the options for patterns are vast. I settled on 2 entries-- the first is of one of my fish and the second is of a coleus leaf.

Heeeere fishy, fishy...



The fish is now a funny story. We became the proud owners of a ginormous fish tank a few months ago, when one of hubby's friends couldn't fit the tank in his moving truck. So, hubby did some research, and several trips to PetSmart later, we expanded our family by 2 Jack Dempseys, 2 convict cichlids and 2 algae eaters (aka 'the sucky fish'.) We lost a Dempsey and an algae eater, but the others seemed to thrive. One of the convict fish, in particular, has grown a ton.

So, as I was uploading photos today, I googled "convict cichlid". And I was surprised. B/c, I was fairly clueless about them, relying soley on my hubby's research in getting them. Do you know what I discovered? I discovered that convict fish are fairly hardy, that they establish monogamous bonds and, oh, hmm...what's that? They breed. Prolifically.

Which is why I currently have 35 baby fish in my tank.


Now, for something different...



It appears that I no longer suffer from a brown thumb, as my flowers are growing spectacularly this year. This is just one leaf of several, thriving coleus plants in my yard. I think it looks neat. So there.

Shutterbug Spies

I spy with my little eye...

Shutterbug Spies (it'll be listed in my favorites...once I figure out how to do that, lol) is a blog chronicalling a series of photo challenges set forth by one of my groups. It's fun, and a chance to be creative. It also gives me an opportunity to become more familiar with My Big Fancy Camera. I've had My Big Fancy Camera for 7-ish months, and -- embarrassingly enough -- I know very little about how to operate it. Guess I better dust off the idiot sheet owner's manual, hmm??


Week 1's challenge was a self portrait. Here's mine:



My reflection in the oven. Apropos, no?