
Category: Nature

A fairly common sighting in the Puget Sound waters, I got good opportunities to photograph plenty of Red Rock Crabs (Cancer productus)… including multiple mating pairs. They can grow to about 8 inches across and you can see they have quite powerful claws.

Sometimes animals just make funny faces at the camera…


I am pretty sure this is a Varadero Doto (Doto varaderoensis) nudibranch. They are fairly small – only getting to a maximum of 1/2″ long – and they feed on hydroids (the things that kind of look like weird shaped umbrellas here). I’m not sure…

There is something eerie about a bunch of vultures staring at you while you’re out hiking…

An extremely common shrimp in the waters of Puget Sound, these Coonstripe Shrimp (Pandalus danae) were able to be spotted on almost every dive and the fact that they grow to about 6 inches long meant some good close-up detail shots were fairly easy to…


A couple close-up headshots of a couple Black-bellied Whistling Ducks and a Tricolored Heron.

I am not sure why this Blackline Fireworm reared up like this – perhaps to increase its ability to catch scents on the currents to search out its next meal or a mate… or maybe this is just a form of fireworm yoga and this…

Not all sea stars have five arms… like this basket star and this other juvenile star which might be a Morning Sun Star, but it is certainly too small to tell for certain.

At one dive side called Three Tree Point near where I was staying in Burien, Washington, there is an artificial “reef” structure that is a pyramid of bowling balls (seriously!) and apparently it makes for some perfect habitat for these Saddleback Gunnels (Pholis ornata). I’ve…

I am honestly surprised how few insects and spiders I’d seen while in Florida, so I’ll just share some more of this Magnolia Green Jumping Spider (Lyssomanes viridis) from a few months ago…

A small green sea hare spotted in the eel grass on a dive in Alki near Seattle, these little guys were fun to find, but hard to photography because everything was moving so much! I am pretty sure it is a Taylor’s Sea Hare (Phyllaplysia…

I know I briefly shared some Prairie Dog photos with the Coyote, and if you haven’t seen the Bison photos from RMANWR, go check them out too. But today we’ve got some close-ups of the Prairie Dogs.
