Is this mysterious photograph:
a) The Hollywood Bowl at night,
b) an alien spacecraft, or
c) an ocean creature somewhere near Scotland?
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If you guessed C, you are correct! Off the coast of Northern Scotland, Billy Arthur snapped a photo of this majestic Queen Scallop. It has 200 eyes around the mantle lining the edge of its shell (Wow!)
Billy Arthur managed to achieve the luminescent effect that we see in this photograph by shining strobe lights on the scallop, lighting it up!
“Queen scallop with a pretty bling crown…
I love how their frills seem to soak up the light from my strobes!
… Beautiful bivalves.” ~Billy Arthur, photographer
Please go check out Billy Arthur’s Instagram account for amazing ocean photography.
~By Rohan Walker Pandhi, Oceanwire Youth Correspondent
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