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Monday, March 7, 2016

THE BEAUTY OF JELLYFISH captured by photographer Jordi Benitez Castells

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Beauty is ten-feet deep: Underwater photographs show beauty of jellyfish snapped off the

  • Amazing snaps of jellyfish taken off the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia region in northern Spain, from nearly 10 feet below the surface
  • Jordi Benitez Castells, 40, from El Vendrell, Tarragona, spends his spare time snapping underwater

    • See more beautiful images of jellyfish

    Happy snapper: Jordi Benitez Castells, 40, from El Vendrell, in Catalonia's Tarragona, has captured the jellyfish in his home region


    Stunning: A jellyfish swims near the sandy bottom of the sea , with the blue sky reflected in it's near see-through body

    Unwanted guest: One of the jellyfish appears to have got a passenger, with a tiny crab hitching a ride
    Jellyfish and a friendly crab


    Intricate: Thanks to Mr Benitez Castells skills, the photographs show every incredible detail of the jellyfish

    When Mr Benitez Castells is not working full-time in a bank, he spends his time diving and photographing underwater


    Coming up: In order to capture some of the jellyfish, Mr Benitez Castells had to dive down some ten feet and turn upwardsa

    The full picture: In this photograph, Mr Benitez Castells has managed to capture both the sea and the cloudy sky above it

    Deep down: A jellyfish is photographed against the surface off the coast of Spain, in the Mediterranean Sea
     
     
    Peek-a-boo: Another jellyfish swims up above the surface and is photographed against a blazing sunset  
     
     
    Gorgeous: Another jellyfish is captured against a sunset, just underneath the surface of the sea


    Source
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3480595/Beauty-ten-feet-deep-Underwater-photographs-beauty-jellyfish-snapped-coast-Spain.html

    More on Jellyfish

    WIKIPEDIA - Jellyfish or jellies are the major non-polyp form of individuals of the phylum Cnidaria. They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate for locomotion, while stinging tentacles can be used to capture prey.
     
    Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. Scyphozoans are exclusively marine, but some hydrozoans live in freshwater.
     
    Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide. Jellyfish have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal.


    Diagram of the anatomy of a scyphozoan jellyfish


    Vision - Some jellyfish have ocelli: light-sensitive organs that do not form images but which can detect light and are used to determine up from down, responding to sunlight shining on the water's surface. These are generally pigment spot ocelli, which have some cells (not all) pigmented.
     
    Certain species of jellyfish, such as the box jellyfish, have more advanced vision than their counterparts. The box jellyfish has 24 eyes, two of which are capable of seeing color, and four parallel information processing areas or rhopalia that act in competition, supposedly making it one of the few creatures to have a 360-degree view of its environment.



    The major surfaces and axes of a scyphozoan jellyfish


    Size - Jellyfish range from about one millimeter in bell height and diameter to nearly 2 metres (6.6 ft) in bell height and diameter; the tentacles and mouth parts usually extend beyond this bell dimension.

    Illustration of two life stages of seven jelly species
    The developmental stages of scyphozoan jellyfish's life cycle:
    1–3 Larva searches for site
    4–8 Polyp grows
    9–11 Polyp     strobilates
    12–14 Medusae grows



    Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish

    More information on jellyfish
    http://www.jellywatch.org/blooms/facts


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