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Image:Clone war of sea anemones 2-17-08-2.jpg[edit]

Clone war of sea anemones

  •  InfoSea Anemones,Anthopleura elegantissima are engaged in a clone war for the w:territory. The white tentacles are fighting tentacles. They are called acrorhagi. The acrorhagi contain concentration of stinging cells. After war ends one of Sea Anemone should move. Sea Anemones might look as plants, but they are animals and they are predators. The image was taken in Northern California w:Tide pools
  •  InfoIf I may, I'd like to provide some information about tide pools photography. The pools are often too shallow to put the camera in the water. On the other hand, if the camera is out of the water, it is hard to avoid the reflection.
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 --Mbz1 15:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I love the composition and the photograph as a whole, but the focus seems just a little soft at full resolution. This may well be unavoidable. Adam Cuerden 17:03, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The picture you are looking at is a rather rare shot of tide pool action. The camera was placed underwater to avoid the reflection. The distance between the camera and sea anemones was only few centimeters (too close to take a really sharp image). Probably much sharper picture could have been taken, if sea anemones were deeper in the water, or I had a much better camera, or I were a much better photographer. I go to tide pools very often, but I hardly see clone war of sea anemones more than 2-3 times per year. To me it is always fascinating to see sea anemones moving and hitting each other. That's why I wanted to share the image with you.Thank you for your comment,Adam. The most important part you like the image.May I please ask everybody to feel absolutely free to oppose the image. As a matter of fact I came back to show everybody how well I handle "oppose" votes now ;) I just nominated it because IMO it is an interesting and not well known behavior of the common tide pools animals. May I please also ask you, if you believe that downsampling could make the difference? Thank you.--Mbz1 17:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm more knowledgable about engravings than photography - a little downsampling might help, but you probably shouldn't go with my word alone =). Certainly, an image that deserves wide use throughout Wikimedia projects, even if the minor flaws mean it doesn't pass FP. By the way, why "clone" war? Adam Cuerden 18:40, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your very good question, Adam. Sea anemones could clone, as you could see from this even more rare image of mine.I send the nominated image to UC Devis professor Rick Grosberg.Here's his response:
Dear Mila,
Yes, these are certainly clone wars between individuals that belong to different clones of Anthopleura elegantissima.
The photos are terrific -- who took them?
P.S. I do have some photos of interclonal boindaries at the level of the entire clone.
Rick.--Mbz1 19:39, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 in the favor of Richard's edit

Image:Clone war of sea anemones 2-17-08-2 edit.jpg, featured[edit]

Clone war of sea anemones 

result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Mywood 09:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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