Clownfish have a dirty mouth
ENThe underwater photoIt's fun. I love it when fishes take suggestive poses. The nicest ones are not the ones you think!
Maws of fish
As I travel and dive, I am less and less indulgent with my photos of fish. It is no longer enough to capture their image. I try more to "draw their portrait".
The photos are much more interesting when you manage to freeze a fish face, fin raised, in an unusual pose, aesthetic, or suggestive ...
Some of the portraits hold surprises... We discover that the clownfish, the "Nemo" popularized by the movie of the same name, is not a cute little animal, but an aggressive villain who likes to show off his sharp little teeth.
We realize that the trunkfish is a joker, whose mocking pout goes very well with this exasperating mania that he has to run away as soon as we are interested in him.
One can even get excited about the ugliness of the scorpionfish, lurking in its cruel and false lethargy. Its hunting strategy consists in watching without moving the surroundings with its big eyes, to swallow the unfortunate prey which will have the misfortune to pass within reach of its mouth.
Picture gallery
You will find below a small selection of these "mouths" of fish, photographed in the waters of AlorI spent ten days in this remote Indonesian archipelago in July 2012.
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very beautiful pictures, there are some who really sacred trunks !!
I can confirm that little Nemo is a real ringworm, I've been bitten several times by a little Nemo who didn't appreciate photographers!!!!
@Laurence: yes, those Nemos can be downright aggressive, I've experienced it too!!!! I was already talking about it, in a previous post, where I had put a picture of my buddy, with a little clownfish charging at her mask... 😀
https://petitesbullesdailleurs.fr/le-monde-de-nemo-20081130/
I missed this post from 2008!
I think the expression "reef kingpin" fits the poissson clown perfectly, ❗
I had a good laugh watching Alimata's video and reading all the comments!!! 😀
I agree with these metaphysical reflections! I've surprised myself several times by recounting how I've had a real love affair with this or that fish, finding a baby globe (a juvenile box fish to be precise) so cute that I cringe every time I look at the photo, smiling tenderly at the "look" and mischievous eyes of this hawkfish .... And that's without counting the mantis shrimps, with whom playing hide-and-seek is a real pleasure ... I rediscover a child's soul and find myself imagining dialogues and scenarios for these always unforeseen encounters that make diving such a constantly renewed source of wonder. That's what I love about underwater photography too .... 😀
@IsaM: yes, huh, it's amazing how we marvel like kids at the faces of fish!!!!
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I don't really think they're aggressive, it's just that they're wondering what that big thing is! Otherwise, it's clear that they have very ugly faces!
@Tanned-tourdumonde: si, si, je te jure, y'en même qui mordent!!! 😀
I like the title of your article, you put your foot in it 😆
Yeah, clownfish are ugly, all right, and cats are nothing but wankers.
I hope that next time, you'll give the lady fish a run for their money... 😀
Signed: the CCPC (Committee Against Clown Fish) 😉
@Ludovic/Wet&Sea: yes, I'm sick and tired of this blissful, slightly naive tenderness towards nemos. We had to set the record straight.
Long live the CCPC !!!
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Except that your article and your photos are great, I wondered what plugin you use to display your photos in WordPress? Thank you
@An endless summer: thank you!!! 🙂 The plugin I use is one of the many "lightbox" or "shadowbox" that exist for WordPress. The one I have installed is Shadowbox JS.
Otherwise, for gallery images, WordPress does it all by itself.
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The worst kind of clownfish is the black-and-white "panda", which continues to attack you several meters away from its anemore refuge when you're not even interested in it anymore. I had a good laugh underwater, watching my partner struggle with these famous kung-fu pandas, hihihi!
I love the open mouth of the frogfish, the fluorescent ribbon moray eel and the tentacles of the cuttlefish. Bravo Corinne!
@Lisemet: thanks for the compliments!!! I definitely agree with you, the "panda" is a ringworm... 😀
personally I think the clown fish "panda" as you call them, are very pretty! 👿
@Mimi 2000: Pretty, maybe, but a moth nonetheless... 😆