Moray Encounters

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...

Monday Archives: Decodon sp., Small Deep-Sea Fish

Good morning, I have another super colorful three inch Decodon for you all this morning, this is one of the three that was found on the St. Eustatius Expedition last month. A Decodon is a type of wrasse and this particular species is one of my favorite to work with because of their super calm behavior and their more or less relaxed attitude. I think I have told you over the years that not all fish are easy to photograph, some can take me hours to get a shot of as they never stop moving unlike this orange beauty that just sat in one place posing forever! I was going through my St. Eustatius folder yesterday and I see that I am close to having posted most of the top finds from that trip, so I will try and finish that up by the end of next week and then we head back to Bonaire

Diver Image Fails

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...

Dive lights in an underwater image?

In an earlier post I looked at how I have finally accepted the inclusion of people in my images and how I sometimes encourage subjects to use torches (Dive lights for US readers).  In this post I’m sharing images that I think were helped by some underwater...

Divers Love Morays

Divers communicate with hand signals, most of us have a vocabulary (if you can call it that), of around twenty words that we use to ask basic questions of our buddy and to then answer back.  It’s all fairly straightforward and dull most of the time, yet in one...