Nice Pictures Of Shrimp photos

Cut(head)out

Image by Breno Peck
OK, essa tem uma historinha.

Estávamos fotografando na Cidade Velha quando, dobrando a rua, aparece este senhor vendendo camarões. "Vai camarão, dotô? Aqui só tem do graúdo!"

Vendo o personagem que apareceu do nada ali, eu resolvi dar uma olhada no tal do camarão, pensando, logicamente, em fazer uma foto.

"Mas vem cá, esse não é daquele camarão que o graúdo fica em cima e quando a gente vai comprar o senhor pega o pequenino que fica embaixo?"

"Não, não, o meu camarão é do bom, isso eu não faço, blablabla..."

E o velho se empolgou tanto com o camarão dele que nem viu a gata se aproximando sorrateiramente. E eu tentando avisar, e o velho falando, falando, falando.

Não deu outra. Quando eu consegui interromper o velho, foi só pra dizer "meu patrão, acho que o gato tá comendo o seu camarão hein?". Pobre senhor. Ficou todo errado. Não sabia se espancava a gata, se continuava dizendo que o camarão era bom e que isso nunca tinha acontecido antes, se ia embora dali pra nunca mais ser visto.

E a gata nem depois de levar três tapas na cabeça daqueles de balançar o cérebro largou o camarãozinho.

Tendo desistido de me vender o camarão e morto de vergonha, ele me deixou tirar essa foto. Só que o maldito filme rebobinado acabou na hora e cortou o cucuruto do pobre velho.

Só pode ter zica este ancião!

Belém - Pará - Brasil

Canon EOS 630, 100-300mm, Kodak ProImage 100 rebobinado e fora da validade.

OK, this one's got its own particular tale.

We were shooting in the historical Downtown district when, as we turned around the corner, there comes up this old man. "How 'bout a little shrimp, sir? I've only got the big ones!"

Staring at the bizarre apparition that came out of nowhere, I came next to him to take a look at his shrimp -- obviously thinking about taking any photograph I could take.

"Just tell me something, isn't this shrimp basket of yours one of those in which the big ones are on top and when you pick them up you just get the tiny ones that are hidden on the bottom?"

"Of course not! My shrimp is great! I don't do this kind of stuff, no sir, yadda yadda yadda"

Suddenly, the old man got so excited about his shrimp that he didn't even notice the she-cat approaching as quietly as a... well, as a cat! I even tried to warn him, but he wouldn't stop speaking.

Well, you've probably figured out the end of the story. I managed to warn the shrimp saler: "old man, I think there's a cat in your shrimp, see?". Poor old man. He got so embarassed that he didn't know if he spanked the poor cat (who didn't drop the shrimp after three brain-shaking hits on the head!), if he'd still say his shrimp was good and that this never happened before, or if he simply vanished from there forever.

Giving up selling me shrimp, he just let me take his picture. Perfect. Only the rewinded film was cut wrong and the top of his head was cut off.

Definitely, there was something very wrong with this old man.

Some of the young shrimp pickers. Sore, swollen and even bleeding fingers are common among these workers on account of the acid in the shrimp, February 1911

Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Some of the young shrimp pickers. Sore, swollen and even bleeding fingers are common among these workers on account of the acid in the shrimp. Biloxi, Miss, February 1911

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 102-LH-2000

Photographer: Hine, Lewis


Subjects:
Child Labor
National Child Labor Committee
Working Conditions
Factory


Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/523403

Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

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"Caprella linearis" or "Phtisica marina"?

Image by Eric Burgers
I've seen these little monsters (approx. 2..4 mm length) in many nudibranch pictures I took recently. Thinking it was dirt until closer inspection (zoomin in) revealed what they actualy are: skeleton shrimps. So I decided to shoot one up close and personal.

The underwaterworld is like a fractal - I found another, even smaller creature in this picture. Time to purchase a wet close-up filter -- and a frontal shot as this is the back-end of business...

Some confusion about the species. Need another - closer look. It is probably a Phtisica marina. In Dutch "Teringlijder" which roughly translates to "phthisis sufferer".

Favorite Food Series: Homemade Yam Cake

Image by FLEECIRCUS
yam steamed with dried shrimps... nummy

pardon the blurry focus, the pic was taken very quickly moreover i was on the verge of turning white cos of hunger.

jaded

Image by Ikayama
Shawn was waiting for me to finish taking a picture so he could eat his crispy tacos.

If anyone has looked through my stream, this is probably my 'usual' order. It's the #30 Breaded Shrimp at Taqueria Acapulco but instead of fries I get guacamole.