What’s pink and fluffy and tastes great?<\/p>\n
The pink spongy mass might look like fairy-floss but that’s where the similarity ends, unless of course you are a nudibranch.<\/p>\n
This is the first time I have found this species of nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum<\/em>, eating this particular species of sponge. Perhaps that’s where it gets its pink spots from!<\/p>\n In this image I have used an imaging style called ‘close-focus wide-angle’. Unlike most CFWA images however I have chosen to shoot wide open giving an unusually narrow depth of field for this style.<\/p>\n CFWA is often used to portray a subject in its larger environment however by also using a wide aperture I have separated foreground and background and created a portrait feel.<\/p>\n So back to the nudibranch and its spongy pink lunch on a Rapid Bay jetty pylon, I’m fairly certain it tastes nothing like fairy-floss. Though to a nudibranch, maybe it does!<\/p>\n Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Nudi Fairyfloss’, 1\/160s f\/2.8 ISO160 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s pink and fluffy and tastes great? The pink spongy mass might look like fairy-floss but that’s where the similarity ends, unless of course you are a nudibranch. This is the first time I have found this species of nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, eating this particular species of sponge. Perhaps that’s where it gets its pink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[835,1211,1210,259,113,82,232,111,794,112,233,197,136],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ceratosomabrevicaudatum","tag-cfwa","tag-closefocuswideangle","tag-critters","tag-diving","tag-macro","tag-nudibranch","tag-rapidbay","tag-rapidbayjetty","tag-scuba","tag-seaslug","tag-underwater","tag-wideangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}