FISHBOXEDWRASSE

[Julian de'Courcy]

Wrasse in a fish box. DP 2 MERLIN



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[John Allen]

Looks like a great start to a bouillabaisse.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Superb, Julian. I've seen paintings like this before. Much better to take a snap, then move on before they start smelling - one great advantage of photography over painting!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow. I just clicked on it!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Looks like a great start to a bouillabaisse.

Yes maybe if the wrasse are excluded. When time was spent trawling, which covers catching the largest number of different species, I took it upon myself to taste each fish. I'll excluded the sting ray as we liked to throw those back alive. For me John Dory was possible the most memorable for all the right reasons. The wrasse, I imagined when you'd fallen in a bog and the wellies fill with the soupy mud. You'd then hang the socks out to dry in the hot sun until crusty dry. Not that I've eaten such socks but you get an indication of how something tastes from its smell. Id say Wrasse sadly taste like Bog dried socks. Which is why they are most often landed for crab pot bait. Yet beautiful colourful fish.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Superb, Julian. I've seen paintings like this before. Much better to take a snap, then move on before they start smelling - one great advantage of photography over painting!

Yes Rob they'd make for good still life and as I developed this one I thought the Cod here has been used in oil still lifes and familiar for that.
Lots of painters now will not of course paint the fish but paint a photograph of the fish. Apparently less smelly.
Wish I'd have taken a tripod that day.

 

[Pete Askew]

Absolutely superb - and even better when clicked on (thanks, Rob). Love it.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Absolutely superb - and even better when clicked on (thanks, Rob). Love it.

Thanks Pete, Not as daft as he looks hey

 

[Pete Askew]

Yeah, that selfie was a shock I must say. I preferred him as a poodle!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Woof

 

[Douglas McMann]

Excellent tones Julian, and so detailed.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excellent tones Julian, and so detailed.

Thank you Doug appreciated.

 

[Brian Moore]

A fine image indeed, Julian. And I too clicked on it after reading Rob's post-click post and I too am mightily impressed.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

A fine image indeed, Julian. And I too clicked on it after reading Rob's post-click post and I too am mightily impressed.

Thank you very much Brian

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

I clicked on it without seeing anything but the image, but according to this photographer I am, what was it again, a genious? Well it is a grand image, lovely colours and so crisp. Must be Merlin helping out!

 

[Rense Haveman]

Fabulous shot!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I clicked on it without seeing anything but the image, but according to this photographer I am, what was it again, a genious? Well it is a grand image, lovely colours and so crisp. Must be Merlin helping out!

Fabulous shot!

Thank you Both although I only understood one reply fully.

 

[Pete Askew]

Yes, what was Rense on about?!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Thank you Both although I only understood one reply fully.

That figures