I love the chance to photograph octopuses. In my last post I showed some images taken in the Mediterranean, featuring the Common Octpopus (Octopus vulgaris). I realize, to my shame, I am not entirely sure which species I'm looking at in this series of images, though I suspect the first [...]
I recently watched the Netflix documentary 'My Octopus Teacher'. What an amazing piece of story telling, with some really lovely imagery. Sadly, I haven't ever befriended an octopus, but I have encountered them all over the world, albeit briefly. Here's a few from the Med, where octopus [...]
Full of character and often feisty, damsels are oftentimes best left in the wild. Here's a selection from my favorite location. Back when I first started keeping fish, every store seemed to have a tank of cheap juvenile damsels - humbugs, dominoes, etc. that everyone bought due to their [...]
I've been thinking about shipwrecks of late, after my post about an ancient wreck in Greece. I thought you might like to see these images by way of a comparison. This is Il Motore 'the engine' from Sardinia. There's something I find very visually satisfying about this aircraft engine [...]
I first dived the Peristera wreck, as it is known, a few years back, before it was advertised as a dive site that was open to wider diving community. I have to say, it was a truly awesome experience. The small islet of Peristera sits off the coast of Alonissos, a charming island in the [...]
You may well have seen images of the oil spill that is blighting the reefs and beaches of this lovely island. While the media reports that much of the fuel oil has now been pumped out of MV Wakashio, a great deal has already washed ashore damaging reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangroves. I [...]
While working on a few posts about camouflage in fish, I came across a fascinating news release about just how black deep sea fish can be. The research, led by scientists from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, found sixteen unrelated species of fish with skin so black [...]
I've been sharing a few images of the fishy "masters of disguise" that I've come across over the years. I haven't shown fish from the Caribbean region yet, so here are a few that I came across a few years back. I haven't had a great many dives in the Caribbean and the wider Tropical [...]
