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

[redbird]

Yes. I stopped by Wikipedia, and stayed long enough to edit the taxobox.

I think the tattoo itself will be fine on copyright, since the plan is to take several images to my artist and have him use them as the basis for a drawing: "I want a portrait of this fish, in as close to that color as current inks and my skin tone allow, and it should be facing toward someone who is facing me."

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, no doubt. it's not like you're planning to tattoo nemo on your rump. :)

of course this makes me wonder whether anyone has ever sued somebody for copyright violation based on a tattoo.