Three coelacanth pictures

[redbird]

I've been looking around the Web for coelacanth pictures. These three together might be good to take to my tattoo artist. I still need to decide on location--I like rysmiel's suggestion of low on the left side of my torso, but that would be harder to show people than the tattoos I already have--and whether I want one fish or more than one.

Brown coelacanth A good picture of a coelacanth. From the colors, I suspect this one is of the species found at the eastern end of the Indian Ocean, not the Comoros species.

Approaching coelacanth This coelacanth is swimming toward the viewer. This is the orientation I think I want for my tattoo.

Cobalt coelacanth This may be slightly brighter than the natural color of the coelacanth, but if the inks exist, I want her in these colors.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I had been thinking of low on the left side of your torso as something that could be shown people just by an untucking at the waist, which is not that much more awkward than rolling up a sleeve or a leg to show your existing ones, no ?

[redbird]

True. It wouldn't be something I could show off just by wearing shorts or a tank top. Hmmm. Were you thinking hip, or further up?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I had actually envisioned sort of appendix-level or slightly higher.

[thette.livejournal.com]

For medical reasons, slightly higher may be better, whether you've had an appendectomy or not.

Post appendectomy: because the scar helps in the diagnosis of abdominal pain and peritonitis.

With appendix left: because if you ever have an appendectomy, the tattoo will probably be destroyed.

Though with the arrival of antibiotics treatment, my point is rapidly vanishing.

[redbird]

What I've been envisioning is way over to one side: more flank than belly. Where would an appendectomy scar be? (As you can tell from the question, I don't have one.)

[thette.livejournal.com]

A little bit in from the corner of the hip bone, exactly where depending on the technique used.