Whenever I'm on a dive trip, be it a commission or a even just a holiday, I always look out for interesting clams and shoot as many of them as possible. Sneaking up on clams in the wild is not easy, they are tremendously sensitive and will invariably retract their...
I recently posted about cardinals and how they got their name: how one red fish in the Mediterranean gave its name to a family of fish found across the globe. On a similar theme, I thought I'd have a quick look at the 'original' chromis, another fish from the Med....
Across the world there are animals with the word 'cardinal' in their name and as most readers will know the entire fish family Apogonidae are known as cardinals, but why? Why are the fish below 'cardinals'? There will no doubt be readers for whom, this post is old...
Everyone loves their first; their first car, their first time away from their folks, their first... well, a whole range of other firsts we shouldn't mention here. Amphiprion bicinctus was the first clown I ever saw in the wild, and the first I ever photographed. I've...
When reviewing my image archive, very much with: "I wish I was diving right now" running through my head - especially as the Scottish autumn turns into another soggy Scottish winter, it is shots like these that really make me want to warm up my credit card and defy...
In yesterday's post I showed some coral heads full of mainly juvenile Chromis viridis, and I mentioned how hard they were to shoot. In this series of images I was lucky enough to have a macro lens fitted to my camera and I was able to observe some interesting...
Chromis viridis are widely available in the aquarium industry and commonly kept in home aquaria. Often, aquarists buy several very young specimens in the hope they will form a shoal. In my experience this doesn't really happen and sadly, as the group dynamics of the...
Many underwater photographers have their favorite type of subjects: some love shooting wrecks, others sharks, whilst some favor fish portraits. For me, nudibranchs are in my top 5, and possibly my overall favorite, with the exception of sharks. The best nudi, in my...
I've been sharing images of shipwrecks of late, partly, if I'm entirely honest because I'm really missing my diving and my thoughts keep drifting off towards the underwater world. This post is probably my last on this theme, and whilst I have shared these images...
Diving and taking underwater images off the UK coast is not always easy; our relative exposure to storms from the west and east make much of our coastline a little rough to say the least. In most cases shipwrecks are severely broken up and hard to identify, yet they...