Underwater photographers often develop an obsessive fascination with nudibranchs and flatworms. To many divers this is quite baffling and indicative of an interest that literally means the photographer is focussing on the tiny and minute and missing the ‘big picture’. Nudi fans will tell [...]
Underwater photographers can become rather obsessed with nudibranchs. In nudi hotspots such as Anilao in the Philippines, photographers travel from across the world to take part in nudibranch festivals. We even have a small gathering of nudi obsessives here in Scotland. Nudibranchs come in a [...]
A recent paper from the University of Portsmouth in the UK, in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters reported that nudibranchs can demonstrate an unusual feeding strategy, which the researchers have named [...]
Last year I moved to the south east of Scotland. One of the main reasons for my move north was the region’s amazing scenery and rich biodiversity, above and below the [...]
Just keep staring into the hypnotizing abyss. Not quite a buzzing cartoon toad from a distant future on Earth, this iridescently patterned nudibranch was collected for photography purposes in just 30 feet of water off the eastern coast of Florida by Farside Tropicals. Almost all nudibranchs, also [...]
With a huge mass of Gulf Stream water much closer to shore than usual, we’ve had a rare opportunity here in New York to examine Sargassum [...]