When I take underwater photographs, I often try to capture divers in their ‘natural’ element, or charismatic species of fish and invertebrates in either wide-angle shots, or up close with a macro lens. These are the more commercially valuable images. However, as a...
http://vimeo.com/34892701 This video comes to us courtesy of Jon Slayer (great name BTW), who recently visited an extremely remote area off the Western coast of Madagascar and photographed an untouched reef which was previously undocumented. The video shows a highly...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kDK9bR_5l8&list=PLXPyqwUeMof531MhQ8zK4tDEhG9xryXVo We are excited to unveil Illuminating Coral, an eight-episode educational course created with our longtime collaborator John McSwain during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Our friends at POTO always have the finest frags, and their recently announced live sale event should be no different. This sale is available only here on Reefs.com, and features a live chat with contests and games. The live chat system creates a fun game-like...
If you take a look at most images of rays, you will note two things. They're pretty flat and they're also a little boring in the color department. Taeniura lymma seems to have rejected the second category and appears to be proud of its vivid blue polka dots. Here's...
We are often reminded these days of the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world, with the aquatic world taking something of a pounding as global warming, pollution, and overfishing taking their toll. Whilst it can be very depressing at times, every s0 often, a...
If you've never taken an interest in seagrass, you're missing out. I'ts biologically fascinating and perhaps more importantly, really, really useful. I've been fascinated by this stuff since first learning about this distant relative of the lily that manages to make...
Even though I don't get enormously excited by encounters with Moray Eels, I seem to have an awful lot of images of them, so here's a few more species from around the world. The fish below (and main image) is the Mediterranean Moray (Muraena helena). This species is...
In an earlier post I mentioned that divers have a fascination with morays, seemingly getting very excited what we encounter a particularly large one. Personally, as I stated earlier, I'm not always hugely impressed with morays of the 'look at the size of that beast!"...
I think all readers of this post are aware of the spread of Lionfish through the waters of the Caribbean and the wider Tropical Western Atlantic, but for the first time a lionfish has been caught in waters off the the UK coastline. As yet though, no one is sure where...