Missing the small stuff

It has been over a year since I’ve been in the water.  People keep asking me what I miss the most.  The answer to this seems to vary with my mood.  Sometimes I really miss just hanging in the blue watching the life of a reef unfold below me, other times I miss...

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone! Enjoy these pictures of an adorable clownfish couple and their batch of babies, taken by Sanjay Joshi in 2008! “I picked up an odd couple of clownfish from a friend in Denver in...

When sweepers actually help an image

In my last post I talked about Sweepers, the small fish of the genus Parapriacanthus that seem to have a burning desire to get between me and my subject en masse, with little I can do to persuade them to leave me...

The fish that get in the way

Mostly I like fish, and I imagine most folks reading this have a fondness for them too!  Sometimes though, in some circumstances, fish can just get in the way of a good photo. The image above was taken towards the end of a dive in the Maldives; we knew roughly where...