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File: 041220_152313_echeng5559.jpg
File size: 362KB
Image Serial Number: 000-5559
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Firmware: Digital Photo Professional
Date/Time: 2004:12:20 15:23:13
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
ISO: 100
Focal length: 16mm
Image size: 1066 x 1600
Rotation: none
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"In the foreground is the mother of all giant clams (Tridacna gigas) with its vent slit at the bottom of the photo and the siphon just under the cream colored leather coral. The iridiscent patches in the mantle consist of zooxanthellae (dinoflagellate algae). They are rather sparse in this specimen so it probably gets most of its nutrition by filter-feeding with the vent and siphon. (Kri Island)"