Meetings with Octopus Pt.2

I love the chance to photograph octopuses.  In  my last post I showed some images taken in the Mediterranean, featuring the Common Octpopus (Octopus vulgaris).  I realize, to my shame, I am not entirely sure which species I’m looking at in this series of images,...

Meetings with octopuses, Pt.1

I recently watched the Netflix documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’.  What an amazing piece of story telling, with some really lovely imagery.  Sadly, I haven’t ever befriended an octopus, but I have encountered them all over the world, albeit...

Red Sea Damsels

Full of character and often feisty, damsels are oftentimes best left in the wild.  Here’s a selection from my favorite location. Back when I first started keeping fish, every store seemed to have a tank of cheap juvenile damsels – humbugs, dominoes,...

Diving a very old shipwreck

I first dived the Peristera wreck, as it is known, a few years back, before it was advertised as a dive site that was open to wider diving community.  I have to say, it was a truly awesome experience. The small islet of Peristera sits off the coast of Alonissos, a...