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...
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...