Doesn’t 2019 feel especially nostalgic? If not for the predictable boredom of everyday life- wake up, go to work, come back, feed yourself, feed your fish, sleep, repeat- then definitely because we all don’t know when we can go back to live those blissfully ignorant lifestyles (don’t be [...]
I think a lot of people have a particular liking for gobies, there’s plenty to choose from with around two thousand or so species. Not only are there plenty of ’em, but they are widely distributed, from cold arctic seas to warm coral-rich waters. For me, one of my favorite species [...]
I posted a few images, in an earlier posting, showing some large corals colonies I came across on a dive to a very healthy reef in the northern Red Sea. I though I should post a few images showing what a more typical reef scene might look like. I’ve chosen images from the shallows, which I [...]
The sheltered coral gardens of the Red Sea are some of the finest in the world, with excellent growth and usually, equally excellent visibility, making for great images. On this dive I decided to focus on some of the more massive coral colonies. My first is this amazing Turbinaria, which if you [...]
On some rare occasions, the natural cracks and swim-throughs that form on a healthy reef see so much growth near the surface, that growth of photosynthetic species below is severely curtailed and a network of dimly lit cave-like habitats can form. Here are some images. I’m no geographer, [...]
One of the joys of photographing fish in the wild is the chance to see them showing natural behavior ‘en masse’. Not that it is always easy to image though; whilst I may think of myself as a passive observer, the fish consider me a likely predator. I’ve been trying to capture an [...]
Over here in the UK shark fans are looking forward to the arrival in our waters of the second largest fish in the sea, the Basking Shark. Surprisingly little is known about this fish – which can reach ten meters in length – which heads up the eastern Atlantic into UK waters and then [...]
Large pomacanthids are characterful, seemingly intelligent and, in my experience, superbly able to avoid underwater photographers, so it was a great day when I managed to spend a few minutes with these two fish. I was diving on a shipwreck in the northern Red Sea, a Greek registered vessel called [...]
