Hello there. I'm just a dead fish but that doesn't mean I'm not also a keen and busy blogger. My own personal favorite bloggers are Drudge Report and anything to do with pollution. Here's a cool picture of me rotting away in Boston's famous River Charles, drifting helplessly in the grimy water, buffeted by the current, just slapping my decaying flesh against the embankment until the scales drop from my flanks with nowhere else to go. Yes sir, it's no fun hanging out beside the sewer pipe. But one of the interesting facets of floating around upside down in industrial effluence and human garbage is the fresh and exciting perspectives such activity produces. Whole new vistas are opened up for me. Well, they would be if some greedy and ravenous water rat hadn't eaten half of my head.
Photograph taken by me with my brand spanking new six megapixel digital camera (although I can't see much difference between this picture quality and the type created by my old four mega pixel digital camera to be honest with you)
Yes, but if you make the picture three foot by five foot, you'll see the difference.
Posted by: Misspent | September 12, 2005 at 11:23
I can see the difference. The fish looks even deader than it would at four megapixels. And the water slicker with pollution. I can better appreciate his perspective.
Posted by: Amy | September 12, 2005 at 12:27
i am beginning to feel like the Captain Ahab of photographers!
Posted by: stephenesque | September 12, 2005 at 12:48
Come now. Dead fish don't speak to the living; that's an ignorant myth propounded by fishwives and costermongers and celebrities. It has NO justification in scientific fact.
Come on, Stephen, confess. That's really YOU putting on a funny voice and pretending to be a ghost fish, isn't it? You can't fool me.
Nice picture. Makes me feel a bit hungry.
Posted by: Post A Comment | September 12, 2005 at 13:08
I think the difference between the 4 and the 6 mega pixels will show up when the subject is alive. That, or perhaps getting a closer shot. What's a skin condition on your feet or a few nibbles from a water rat for a good shot.
Posted by: DarkoV | September 12, 2005 at 16:28
http://www.grodmanssyndikatet.se/images/bjorkvik/images/Spigg.jpg
I think they're called minnows.
It's rather uncomfortable to step on a dead one. We used to bring them home from the sea in plastic bags and plant them in small freshwater ponds. We'd never see them again. I guess they didn't like the bread crumbs we threw on top of the thick layer of algae...
Posted by: rannva | September 13, 2005 at 01:16