Seagrass has always fascinated me and on a recent dive I found some very interesting creatures you might like to see. Adult Green Turtles are vegetarian, and if this female was anything to go by, they can eat a lot of vegetable matter. I met this fine old lady at a dive site not far from Marsa [...]
I’ve just written a post about sharks in the Red Sea, but if they’re not your thing, then perhaps you’ll enjoy these shadier images. Offshore reefs in the Red Sea are some of the richest coral habitats in the world, with very brightly lit reef flats only a few meters away from shaded [...]
Do yourself a favor and check out this beautiful new website from one of our favorite ichthyologist/taxonomist/fish guys, Yi-Kai Tea (Lemon TYK). Filled with his photography and some wonderful insights, it is a true pleasure to scroll through. There is also a “store” page, which [...]
Nearly every dive resort I’ve been to has their own ‘Nemo City’. It seems that the antics of a small cartoon fish are still very popular. While folks in the know might grumble and mutter about the correct naming of Amphiprions, the everyday diver seems not to care one jot, [...]
I’ve spent my diving career thinking that the Red Sea-endemic butterflyfish, Chaetodon austriacus, is just about the most attractive of an amazing genus. I finally managed to take shots of a few juvenile specimens. But first let’s have a look at the adult. The Exquisite [...]
I just got back from a diving and photography trip to the Red Sea, and as usual I’ll be sharing some of my images of the amazing reef life I encountered, and tried to photograph as best I can. My first batch is of a selection of tridacnids, which I always like looking at. As ever, these are [...]
Fluorescence is an amazing natural phenomenon and one of the main reasons so many of us reef aquarists got hooked into keeping reef aquariums at home. When illuminated with black light, corals transform into these otherworldly creatures, glowing in the dark in a kaleidoscope of colors. There is no [...]
In the last edition of Fluorescence Photography: MACNA Edition, I tried to shine some light on the topic of coral fluorescence- what it is, how does it manifest itself in corals and what’s the difference between this phenomenon and other forms of naturally occurring luminescence. In this [...]