This post is by Richard Back (Afishionado) During Reef A Palooza Chicago, Polyplab unveiled the newest product from their already impressive line up. What I really like about Polyplab is that they make such practical products that everyone can utilize, so naturally I...
In my last few posts I've discussed how I try to photograph a cross-section of the reef life I come across, from vistas of coral in well-lit waters to shoals of whatever night be swimming past. One of my favorite categories of reef life to snap are the tiny critters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5-ARXmQlQ Here is a great video by the WRI that summarizes most of the major threats facing the reefs and how we as individuals can change our behaviors to impact global change. The video uses some cute animation of corals and reef...
It's been a while since I posted this image of one of the most curious little fish I've ever come across. This is the Banded or Blue-edged Sole (Soleichthys heterorhinos). It is found across the Eastern Indian Ocean and into the Western Pacific. I've only ever seen...
I've never set out to deliberately share poor quality images before. So here goes... In my last two posts I discussed taking images of divers and how the use of torches (dive lights) can add to an image. In this post I want to talk about how not to do it, with some...
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...