A Spotlight on Garden Flowers

The focus for this color challenge post shall be a garden flower that could perhaps pass for Monday Red or Tuesday Orange. Because it is technically still Monday in my timezone, I will post it as Monday. This flower provided a couple nice shots.

All Images taken with a Nikon D3200

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Up Close and Personal, Fishy Portraits : Sea Life Aquarium

Continuing the visit to Sea Life Aquarium in Michigan, the freshwater section begins to lead to the brackish and saltwater tanks. Another thing that comes to mind about this beginning area of Sea Life Aquarium is that it was themed similar to a forest or jungle. While the salt water sections were all blue and ocean themed.

This first image shows a community tank. The aquarium was viewable from most angles, and contained a couple puffer fish.

The large tanks on the wall focused on schools of medium sized fish. They were still community tanks, and many had small stingray, but the school caught your attention easily.

Finally managed to find one of the little guys resting by the side of the tank.

One of the larger tanks contained a few of these more colorful fish. They didn't seem to form schools, but rather swam freely around the bottom half of the tanks.

This fish was one of the largest in this tank. It liked to come up close to the sides, but would move when I would try to get a picture. It was almost like it knew what I was doing.

The tank with the colorful fish, and the fish above, also had these stingray.

Hope you enjoyed the images! :)

Taken with a Nikon D3200

Commodore 64 Complete Setup

Perhaps one of my oldest computers, the Commodore 64 is also one of my most complete. There is the original monitor, floppy drive, cassette drive, and computer. Not to mention several pieces of software.

The story behind this computer is a bit more interesting than me just buying it. My dad works at a manufacturing company, and his boss had this computer stored away collecting dust. Word got out that I liked computers, and a deal was made with my dad that I could have the Commodore if I would never sell it.

I wouldn't dream of selling it anyways :)

During my Sophomore year of college, I was tasked with making a functioning website. The theme that was decided on was vintage computers, and the main one being this Commodore. I laid it out with all of its components to take pictures. These are the images I used. They were not taken with with a DSLR camera, but with a point and shoot type of camera with around 14 megapixels.

The computer is built within the keyboard. This was not what we know as a standard QWERTY keyboard, but closer to what was expected for the time. This machine came built with 64K of RAM, and a 8-bit processor running around 1MHz.

Of course there are the drives that connect to the computer.

Here is the original manual, some cartridges, and some floppy disks. Centipede has to be my favorite. I have it for the Atari, and I don't think there is any difference between these two versions. Pole Position is a racing game, but one I have yet to master.

Maybe one day I will have the computer museum I dream of having. For now it is set up in my room being taken very good care of.

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Fish from around the World | Sea Life Aquarium

The beginning of May I took a trip to the other side of Michigan with my parents. This trip was for a doctors visit, one that was only available on the other side of the state, but what is the point of just going to the doctor? We got a one night hotel stay, headed to the nearby mall, and made a trip out of it.

Our main plan was the Sea Life Aquarium. I am a sucker for animals, especially invertebrates, fish, reptiles, and the like. This place had a few of those off of the list.

The beginning room had the entirety of Sea Life's freshwater fish. It moved into brackish afterwards, and finished with saltwater. Many may not think of freshwater being that exotic or even interesting; however, it can be just as exciting as some saltwater aquariums.

Every so often there would be some sort of interactivity with the aquariums. These viewing bubbles were very common for the larger tanks.

A couple of the exhibits had bubbles shaped to allow visitors a unique view. These indents would be on the bottom, and people could be fully engulfed with the tank.

There are many more images to explore from this visit. Hope you enjoyed these ones :)

All images were taken with a Nikon D3200 at the Sea Life Aquarium in Michigan.

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