Fish Identification

So I was diligently working on a great new scrapbook. Dan and I love to scuba dive, and we take photos during our dives, but for some reason (I guess since we are still learning the complicated art of underwater photography) most of our pictures are left out of my vacation scrapbooks. I guess I never thought them to be "good enough" for me to spend so much time scrapbooking. But that changed when I went to Michael's with my Mom. In their clearance bins they had a chipboard album shaped like a fish. That gave me a great idea. I am going to make an underwater mini-album of the fish we see on each dive trip. That way I am not committing to 12x12 pages in my scrapbook (unless it is a really great picture), but we can have an album with our own fish pictures. I keep really good records in our dive logs of all the fish we see (or at least all that I can remember), but I think this will really add to the memories. Since it is a small album, it doesn't matter that the pictures aren't the best, but now they don't just sit on my computer, without being used.

But now, I am faced with the difficult task of going through all my dive pictures and deciding which is the best picture of each specific fish so we have a good representation of each one. Also, I have pulled out my Hawaii's Fished book and am trying to find specific names for each fish. I can tell you that a fish is a butterfly fish or a parrotfish, but I need to know what type it is, a threadfin butterflyfish vs a lined butterflyfish vs a raccoon butterflyfish. So my relaxing afternoon of scrapbooking has turned into me with my nose in a book. Well, to those who know me, that should come as no surprise. Back to work.