I took this photo fifteen years ago when I was just starting out in wildlife photography. I regret that I didn’t take more than just one shot and that I didn’t get down on the level with this mudskipper to isolate the subject and blur out the background. I haven’t seen another one since. I consider this more of a document-of-seeing-the-animal type of shot than anything else. Mudskippers are interesting little creatures. They’re fish, in fact. But they are amphibious and live inside and outside of the water. As the name would suggest, they spend most of their time skipping around in mud flats. This one was in Daintree National Park in the northeast corner of Australia. But there are 32 different species of mudskipper and they range throughout the Indo-Pacific, from Africa, through Polynesia and into Australia. I figured after fifteen years, it was worth a post for the interest of the animal itself if not the skill of the photographer.Nikon D200 with Nikkor 600mm f/5.6 lens, ISO 200, f/5.6 at 1/13th of a second.
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I took this photo fifteen years ago when I was just starting out in wildlife photography. I regret that I didn’t take more than just one shot and that I didn’t get down on the level with this mudskipper to isolate the subject and blur out the background. I haven’t seen another one since. I consider this more of a document-of-seeing-the-animal type of shot than anything else. Mudskippers are interesting little creatures. They’re fish, in fact. But they are amphibious and live inside and outside of the water. As the name would suggest, they spend most of their time skipping around in mud flats. This one was in Daintree National Park in the northeast corner of Australia. But there are 32 different species of mudskipper and they range throughout the Indo-Pacific, from Africa, through Polynesia and into Australia. I figured after fifteen years, it was worth a post for the interest of the animal itself if not the skill of the photographer.Nikon D200 with Nikkor 600mm f/5.6 lens, ISO 200, f/5.6 at 1/13th of a second.
So cool!! What do they eat? It looks like they don’t even have mouths.