Golden Jellyfish
Golden jellyfish (Mastigias papua etpisoni) in Palau's famous Jellyfish Lake.Over hundreds of thousands of years, these jellyfish have evolved, losing thei...
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Golden jellyfish (Mastigias papua etpisoni) in Palau's famous Jellyfish Lake.Over hundreds of thousands of years, these jellyfish have evolved, losing their stinging nematocysts and feed exclusively from photosynthesis.
Each day millions of these jellyfish will migrate horizontally across the lake until nightfall when they will only move up and down to avoid the edge of the lake where predators (anemones) await.
For these starburst backlit shots, I used my large Zen 230 dome port as a mirror to watch and time when the jelly would pass just in front of the sun with my strobes uplighting the jelly at f/20
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Each day millions of these jellyfish will migrate horizontally across the lake until nightfall when they will only move up and down to avoid the edge of the lake where predators (anemones) await.
For these starburst backlit shots, I used my large Zen 230 dome port as a mirror to watch and time when the jelly would pass just in front of the sun with my strobes uplighting the jelly at f/20
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