Welcome back! Today’s picture is a creature, which I couldn’t classify. I think it might be a thaliacea, but not sure.

The picture was taken on a sunny day on beautiful Bali. In order to get the contrast of the blueish creature against the background, I used f/13 with 1/100 sec and one flash to make the background black.

The trickier part for pictures of these creatures is getting the focus right. They are translucent and blur well with the blue background. So many cameras have problems using the autofocus and they tend to continuously ‘zoom-in-and-out’.

I usually try to catch and hold the camera’s autofocus by pressing the button just half way down, focusing on the area with highest contrast, then position the frame and by moving slightly forward or backward, positing the sharpness on the creature again.