If you take a look at most images of rays, you will note two things. They're pretty flat and they're also a little boring in the color department. Taeniura lymma seems to have rejected the second category and appears to be proud of its vivid blue polka dots. Here's...
We are often reminded these days of the ongoing loss of biodiversity around the world, with the aquatic world taking something of a pounding as global warming, pollution, and overfishing taking their toll. Whilst it can be very depressing at times, every s0 often, a...
If you've never taken an interest in seagrass, you're missing out. I'ts biologically fascinating and perhaps more importantly, really, really useful. I've been fascinated by this stuff since first learning about this distant relative of the lily that manages to make...
Even though I don't get enormously excited by encounters with Moray Eels, I seem to have an awful lot of images of them, so here's a few more species from around the world. The fish below (and main image) is the Mediterranean Moray (Muraena helena). This species is...
In an earlier post I mentioned that divers have a fascination with morays, seemingly getting very excited what we encounter a particularly large one. Personally, as I stated earlier, I'm not always hugely impressed with morays of the 'look at the size of that beast!"...
I think all readers of this post are aware of the spread of Lionfish through the waters of the Caribbean and the wider Tropical Western Atlantic, but for the first time a lionfish has been caught in waters off the the UK coastline. As yet though, no one is sure where...
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...
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...