While working on a few posts about camouflage in fish, I came across a fascinating news release about just how black deep sea fish can be. The research, led by scientists from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, found sixteen unrelated species of fish with skin so black [...]
I've been sharing a few images of the fishy "masters of disguise" that I've come across over the years. I haven't shown fish from the Caribbean region yet, so here are a few that I came across a few years back. I haven't had a great many dives in the Caribbean and the wider Tropical [...]
There are few fish with better camouflage than the Scorpaenidae. Slow-moving, bottom-dwelling ambush predators, these fish are masters of disappearing into their surroundings. After publishing my last post, I decided to dig out some pictures of Scorpionfish from the Red Sea. In the main [...]
Just about my favourite thing (after photographing sharks) is bimbling* around a reef with a macro lens mounted to my camera, looking for small critters. Non-divers are often surprised to learn just how hard it is to find some of the smaller animals. Take this little goby. If I recall [...]
There's a lot of talk at the moment about living in bubbles; be they on social media or in terms of social isolation and avoiding a particular pestilence that is making a nuisance of itself, to say the least. It got me thinking about some of the creatures I've photographed and just how small [...]
So far this year I have racked up a total of zero hours underwater. Obviously, in the grand scheme of things it isn't really significant, nor that important, given the crises many folk are having to face. However, it's my hobby/work and I am missing it. To that end I'm revisiting my image [...]
For a few few years I never asked myself this question. Whenever I saw a turtle, if it seemed to have a greenish tint to its carapace I was happy to think of it as a Green and not let it bother me again. The thing is, that's not the answer at all. I later leaned that the best way to ID a [...]
I've just completed a post about Lionfish and their status in the Mediterranean and I thought I might look at a few other species of note that have made the journey from the Indo-Pacific region to the shores of Europe and North Africa. When the Med was connected to the Red Sea and the [...]
