For a long, long time I really disliked having people in my images. I wanted to keep my images free of my fellow human, full of fish and coral, with nothing in the way of lumbering neoprene-clad mammals. Over the years, however, I have changed my mind. Take these...
In an earlier post I looked at how I have finally accepted the inclusion of people in my images and how I sometimes encourage subjects to use torches (Dive lights for US readers). In this post I'm sharing images that I think were helped by some underwater wattage. In...
Divers communicate with hand signals, most of us have a vocabulary (if you can call it that), of around twenty words that we use to ask basic questions of our buddy and to then answer back. It's all fairly straightforward and dull most of the time, yet in one time in...
 In my last post I discussed the need to capture images of the often overlooked fish on the reef and how, in doing so, I could capture a few pleasing fish portraits. Well, in this post I want to look at the other side of the same coin, by trying to capture a wider...
I've often been grateful to those fish that many divers pass by as they look for something larger and more exciting. Divers sometimes do have a 'fisherman's' mind-set - they are seemingly competing with each other to see the largest fish, or the most colorful, or the...
Amphiprion bicinctus is not a common fish in the trade, but for visitors to the Red Sea, it’s a common sight. I’ve had a great fondness for clownfish since I first saw one on an old nature documentary in the 1970s, so when I first saw one in the wild I was utterly...
I was reviewing some images the other day from a trip to the Caribbean... Grenada to be exact, and thought I’d share some of them once more. This set of pictures shows a particularly attractive shipwreck I dived just off the island. Called the Shakem, this small...
I recently wrote a post about how a lot of reefscapes tend towards the brown and how many aquarists strive to create reefs with colors from across the rainbow, which don't necessarily reflect reefs in the wild. I also mentioned that I typically ignore some subjects...
It has been over a year since I've been in the water. People keep asking me what I miss the most. The answer to this seems to vary with my mood. Sometimes I really miss just hanging in the blue watching the life of a reef unfold below me, other times I miss...
The most-admired and coral-rich aquaria are usually praised for the colors of the corals within them, carefully fed and cared for by dedicated owners. Rare and special morphs are traded online and at frag swaps for considerable sums. Coral reefs can now be created in...