Jacob Maentz’s Blog

I went to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga this past Monday with a good friend I haven’t seen in a long time. Wally Van Sickle and Sean Kelly from IDEA WILD were in town attending the Society for Conservation Biology annual conference. IDEA WILD purchased equipment for the winners who participated in the Conservation Leadership program. The Conservation Leadership winners were attending this conference and the reason why Wally and Sean came to Chattanooga. I’ve been living about an hour from Chattanooga for the past three months and this worked out great, because I haven’t seen Wally in over four years. The last time we saw each other was in El Nido, Palawan doing some diving.

We had a day to hang out and we decided to go to the Tennessee Aquarium to see all the critters there. We were all very impressed with the quality and design of the aquarium. One of the best aquariums I have been to. It was also nice to see on display many of the native species to Tennessee and the Cumberland Plateau.

I thought I would share with you some images I took at the aquarium. I would recommend a visit to this aquarium if you are in the area.

I recently created a YouTube video with some of my portrait images from the Philippines. I thought this would be a unique way for people to see some of my images and of course get more exposure on YouTube. The quality is of course the best it could be for YouTube, but I think it came out alright. I plan to make some more of these slideshow videos if I get some positive feedback. Let me know what you think of the video by leaving a comment. Thanks.