I changed my mind....

[richgrenfell]

Lots of you know that I was selling my fish. Well, i decided that i wasn't going to let life and it's crap take my hobby away. I'll just put in a little extra effort and get the fish taken care of somehow.

Mary (fisngal) was the one who was to buy my discus. The night before her arrival to get them, i was cleaning their tank, and I just couldn't do it!
I put alot of effort into growing them out, and they are looking quite nice.

Mary was very understanding and came up and got some angels from me anyway! it was a pleasure to meet her and her nice family.

Anyway, i also bought a new camera, so I decided to celebrat with some pics!

Rich

[richgrenfell]

turk...

[richgrenfell]

another of the turk....

[Discusgeo]

OK Rich good to see that everything is going to work out. Nice pictures of the Discus they look good. By the way your stuff will be in the mail Monday morning.
George

[richgrenfell]

i think this one is a female, she dry runs the cone almost constantly that is why the weird angle in this pic, i tried to get a pic of her doing it, and she backed off when I approached....

[richgrenfell]

another of the same fish .......

[richgrenfell]

this is the smaller one of the group, but turning out nicely anyway!

[richgrenfell]

this one is it for now!

[richgrenfell]

OK George, thanks very much!

[fcdiscus]

Those are some really sweet Blue Diamonds Rich! Nice to see you stuk with it! Your bud, Frank ;)

[heavyp83]

Looks like you made a good choice to keep them!

;D

[yippy]

If ever you decide to sell - ill buy the bd's - lovely fish, they all are but im partial to bd's. ;D

Kerry

[keith_cny]

Rich,

Great looking fish Man!! I can certainly see why you changed your mind.

Best wishes with whatever is going on. I hope everything works out fine for you.

Keith

[DavidWong]

Wonderful photos and well taken cared of fishes...!!

I am sure you have made the right decision to carry on with this absorbing hobby.

Keep up the good work.

BTW, what camera you used to take such great shots and using what technique ? Hope you care share with me this skill.

[richgrenfell]

Thanks for all the nice words guys.

David, i am using a Nikon coolpix 4300. The last 2 pics where they look blue were done with no flash, the others where they look kind of green were done with a flash.

the camera is in manual mode and the settings I was using were:

F stop = 2.8
Shutter speed = 1/60
matrix metering
white balance = speedlight

I had the image ajustment setting set for high contrast, and the sharpening feature was off.

The image quality was set at high, which causes the camera to save as a TIFF file rather than a jpeg.

ISO setting was 200

Noise reduction feature was off, and the bracketing feature was off as well.

Along with a little help from the fish, they came out kinda nice huh?

Rich

[KEVINT]

Good idea to keep you fish. They are beautiful.
Best of luck. ;D
Kevin

[crazy4discus]

looks good man

[brewmaster15]

Nice Fish Rich!!! and I too am glad that things worked out for you.! Now get that 125 and get more discus!!! ;) ;D ;D ;D

-al

[richgrenfell]

ummmmm.....do you have a 125 available brew ??? ;D

[brewmaster15]

Nope! ..just the occassional fish to fill it :)

-al

[EIHAB83]

If I had like your fish , I would never sell them, good choice
EIHAB

[korbi_doc]

:bounce2: :bounce2: Gosh, Rich, I'm so glad to read that you are staying with'm. It just seems so disappointing when reading 'bout the fallout from this high maintenance hobby, & yet with all life's obstacles it shouldn't be surprising at all. Your BD's are gorgeous, keep up the good work!! Wish you the best!! Pics are great!! Dottie ;D ;D

[Very Fishy]

Nice looking fish you have there!!!1 :)

[kjmillerfw]

Rich,

I'm so glad to hear you aren't throwing in the towel...those are BEAUTIFUL fish and I can understand why you couldn't part with them.

I'd also like to thank you for posting your camera settings and parameters. I have that same exact camera and I've had hell figuring out how to get true to color pictures. The flash distorts the color too much and no flash just gets blurred images. The only thing that does show up well (no matter what) are the water drips on the front of the tank ;) I'll try your settings and see how that works.

Hang in there,

Kathy

[richgrenfell]

Thanks alot for all the nice comments folks! You people are the best!

Rich