Travelling around the Red Sea isn't always enjoyable. Strong winds and boats that rarely exceed thirty meters long can combine to make stomach-churning conditions. For folks like me, who occasionally get sea sick, there are few sights better than one of the larger...
In my last post I talked about Sweepers, the small fish of the genus Parapriacanthus that seem to have a burning desire to get between me and my subject en masse, with little I can do to persuade them to leave me alone. In the grand scheme of things, it is not one...
Mostly I like fish, and I imagine most folks reading this have a fondness for them too! Sometimes though, in some circumstances, fish can just get in the way of a good photo. The image above was taken towards the end of a dive in the Maldives; we knew roughly where...
Every once in a while I gather together my images of this impressive fish and share them with you, for the very simplest of reasons. Just look at it! Is it not an amazing animal? Napoleon Wrasses are one of the largest bony fish, and the largest wrasse of course, and...
Fusiliers are so commonplace that photographers have a tendency to either take them for granted or curse them for getting in the way. I actually quite like them and over the years I've tried top photograph them as best I can. The main lesson I've learned is that...
This is my final post of this short series. If you missed the previous ones, the basic idea runs like this: yellow fish, en masse, look great against the blue. This time I'm looking at Bannerfish. I've photographed Heniochus intermedius in the Red Sea so often, yet...
As I mentioned in my last post, there's nothing quite like a powerful image of vivid yellow fish against a blue background to shout "sunlit tropical reef" to the viewer. That's why I always try to shoot a shoal of yellow fish whenever I can to add some punch to a set...
When I'm hunting around for images with impact that will I hope editors will like, there's nothing better than lots of yellow with lots of blue. The two colors just look so good together and really seem to say "tropical sunlit reef."Â I have three "go-to" genera that...
Over recent years the environmentally damaging form of fishing known as bottom trawling, where weighted nets are dragged across the seabed to target bottom dwelling species such as scallops and sand eels, has been the subject of increasing media attention. In a...
A few years back I visited the small island of Carriacou, off Grenada, and took part in my first Lionfish hunt. As most of you know Lionfish are not native to the waters of the Tropical Western Atlantic and over the last few decades they have spread into the entire...