It’s hard to imagine this cute looking fish hides a distinctly unpleasant modus operandi, but in truth, fangblennies have a dark side. Fangblennies belong to the Combtooth blenny group and are widespread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. I think the fish in the main image is Aspidontus [...]
I’ve spent hundreds of hours underwater, and swum with a dozen species of shark. Never have I felt threatened by them, but being close to a titan trigger? I’d keep my wits about me. The titan trigger (Ballistoides viridescens) is appropriately named, it is the biggest of the family, [...]
Over the holiday period there have been quite a number of posts featuring the Christmas tree worm, for obvious reasons. Here are some of my images and a little more about this very attractive worm. I remember the first time I saw a Christmas tree worm; I was transfixed. “What a beautiful [...]
It’s been a number of years since I was fortunate enough to travel to Mauritius, luckily though, I was asked to travel there on assignment at the end of last year, meaning I was able to revisit some great dive sites with some great fish. My favorite has to be Amphiprion chrysogaster, the [...]
I’m a huge fan of the Red Sea’s most common clownfish, Amphiprion bicinctus. It’s a great photography subject, and when hosting in a spectacular anemone, it makes an amazing combination. Not all clownfish are as easy to shoot as A. bicinctus, which makes this ebullient fish a [...]
I’ve been sharing images from a recent Red Sea trip and thought I’d offer some that show an impressive collections of corals. My first image shows a really interesting growth of hydrozoans. I shot this picture at around twenty meters; it shows what would appear to be a dead tabulate [...]
One of the joys of the Red Sea is pretty simple: the sheer number of fish, and in terms of numbers alone, there are few fishes in greater number than anthias. I’ve started this post with one of my favorite species, the Red Sea Anthias (Pseudanthias taeniatus). These are the striped fish, [...]
I’m slowly working through some recent images from the Red Sea and hopefully you’re enjoying seeing them. Here is a selection of butterflyfish. The first on my list is the Masked or Blue cheek Butterfly. Chaetodon semilarvatus is perhaps the quintessential Red Sea Butterflyfish. [...]