Today's contribution to ABC Wednesday has a lot of sting to it. Wikipedia has this to say - for starters:
Jellyfish (also known as jellies or sea jellies) are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. They have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the Scyphozoa (over 200 species), Staurozoa (about 50 species), Cubozoa (about 20 species), and Hydrozoa (about 1000-1500 species that make jellyfish and many more that do not)[1][2]. The jellyfish in these groups are also called, respectively, scyphomedusae, stauromedusae, cubomedusae, and hydromedusae; medusa is another word for jellyfish.All this is no doubt nice to know after you have vbeen stung...
Today's post is an entry in the FIFTH round of ABC Wednesday, the meme initiated by Denise Nesbitt.For more, you can log on via the MckLinky enabled site
47 comments:
Hey Rune, thats a super shot.
It's always the beautiful ones that are so dangerous.
Little bit of the Starship Enterprise. When we lived in Denmark and my daughter was very young she used to collect them in a bucket, never did understand why.
Excellent photo. Do you have an underwater camera, or was this through a glass?
Flotte farger i den som gjør seg mot det blå vannet.
Hi Rune! Jellyfish are very colourful and this one is almost like a fairy tale one. They are also deceitful, for if you want to have a close look they might harm you. As a child we travelled from Holland to Indonesia and back. It was then that I saw them in the ocean big red or orange coloured jellyfish. At least that's what I remembered.
Wow, beautiful color, I don't like jellyfish very much but in your picture it's ok.
Me again!The fastest way to solve a puzzle was done by auto solve!
Like Dick I think your photo is great but jellyfish are on the list of creatures I avoid at all cost.
What a great shot! Perfect for the day! We saw some of these when we were at the wooden boat festival a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't get a decent shot.
Have a good day, Rune!
Sylvia
Great photo!! This is as close as I want to be...
Great photo, but I wouldn't want to get too close.
beautiful shot!
Awesome. It almost looks like a blood shot eyeball. I marval at your ability to take this photo.
Beautiful jellyfish. It does kind of look like an eyeball!
Great photo. Was it taken under water or was it close to the surface so you took it from above?
Det var en fargerik manet du har fanget der Rune, flotte kontraster mot det knallblå vannet :) Håper ikke du hadde benet i vannet når den svømte forbi!
A beautiful photo, great color. Did you do this looking down into the water, or were you in the water with a under water camera? Great shot!
Eeeek! Don't sting me! What a lovely jelly belly!
Jellyfish di give me the jitters. So fragile yet can be so deadly. Beautiful image though.
Wow, det ser ut som en ufo. Tøft.
A very interesting blog.
Greetings from creativity and imagination photos of Jose Ramon
I read a terrifying article the other day, about how jellyfish are taking over the oceans and growing to an enormous size! Yuk! But your photo's lovely.
Hvilket herlig bilde, flotte farger!! Hvordan fikk du til det der.. Måtte du dykke dypt? ;)
When I see things like this and read about them in the newspaper I am glad I don't live by the sea.
Verry interesting, and a great photo. Thanks.
Great shot, RuneE. I have been stung by a jellyfish before and it's not fun, but I survived and still admire their beauty from afar.
Amazing creatures.
Great photo! but I rather stay away from them.
a stingingly beautiful picture!!
Noe så fantastisk flott Rune.
For noen farger i den brennmaneten, for det er vel det det er vel?? en brennmanet når den har slike farger. Uansett et helt fabelaktig bilde!!
what a photo! superb!
As much as their sting hurts, I do love the way they look and admire them.
Though I've already been suffering from close encounters with them, I'm still keeping being fascinated by them.But I prefer to admire them in an aquarium..
This is a beautiful, etheral photograph!
So nice to see your version on the screen, but not real ones on the beach or in the sea.
Every summer there are periods when Israel's Med beaches are infested with medusas.
It's a smashing photo, but ... normally I find jellyfish quite beautiful, but that one looks as if it belongs inside a large animal and was never meant to be seen outside of one! Organic, in the anatomical sense of the word! LOL!
Wow, I should consult you BEFORE my ABC Wednesdays.
Actually, people jump for joy only AFTER they find their baggage and get through the green customs line.
Whenever the automatic door slides open to let a few out into the arrivals hall, I peek through, into the other world, the coveted world of the traveler.
Fantastic photo, RuneE! "Medusa" seems an apt name for these creatures.
How beautiful it is... at least if it didn't sting!
I'm back to ABC! :o)
Kisses from Nydia.
The Jellies are incredible.
Great photograph!
Sherry
Interesting shot but am wondering how you took this photo or where.
Den var STOR!
Flott fotografert.
I tillegg til maneten selv,
liker jeg strukturen på vannoverflaten her
- og boblene. :)
Great shot! Were you close enough to reach out and touch it? I did have had a upclose and personal encounter with them a long time ago.
What a cool photo!
To see them swimming in the ocean was the most amazing sight. We visited the jellyfish lake in Palau with million of jellyfish, luckily, they do not sting.
Wow! This photo is superb! I've seen jellyfish in the ocean but that was long before I found a point and shoot camera! Lucky I am, to find your blog and wonderful photos!
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