After visiting one of the waterfalls in Taiwan we opted for a different route back to the car, and along the way Jason spotted this group of Formosan Macaques in the trees.
Category: Nature
As you may remember, I like taking photos of hiking trails and when I was out on a hike the other day, I came across this section of rocks and moss that was absolutely perfect. I really like moss in the first place, but the…
Again, I’m not sure if these are true Thecacera pacifica nudibranchs, but they are definitely in the Thecacera family, and thus likely qualify as Pikachu nudis – especially the second one… and definitely more so than the darker black one I posted before…
A colorful Desirable Flabellina (Coryphellina exoptata) nudibranch photographed on the USAT Liberty wreck.
Found these little guys near the waterfalls from the previous post. I was pretty sure they were a grass lizard, and then on the walk back to the car I saw a sign that had them listed as a local species. Though almost all of…
If you watched the cephalapods video from the other day, you may remember the small clip with a squid. I also attempted to take some still images with the 100mm macro lens, but they didn’t come out so great. Thankfully, because it was not a…
Continuing with the shaky video, here’s another one I put together… again, mostly shot with the 100mm macro lens, and mostly of several coconut octopus we found during a night dive at a muck site not far from the resort. The clip of the squid…
So I have been trying to shoot more video with the 100mm macro lens. When the results are good, they are really good. There is a definitely steep learning curve with keeping things stable and in focus, but I figured I would share this video…
I can’t say I remember seeing any of these of the reef, but I spotted these two little juvenile bicolor goatfish (Parupeneus barberinoides) (they are the half yellow/half black striped fish with the little whiskers) while on a dive in the seagrass outside the place…
I can’t decide if this is a good photo or not, but there is something about it that I like. Perhaps a different processing might change it up to make it better, but I’ll share this version for now and maybe revisit it sometime in…
Ok – I haven’t been sharing much land-based photography recently (mainly because I just haven’t been taking any for a while), but here is a quick series of photos I shot while in Timor Leste of a parasitic wasp of some sort that we found…
Anthias are among my favorite fish on the reefs. I wish they were easier to photograph (or that I would have taken more opportunities to try), but here are a couple I managed to photograph. The one is almost definitely the Squarespot Anthias, but the…
Today I’ll share a trio of butterfly fish that were included in our surveys with Blue Ventures – the Eastern Triangle Butterfly Fish, the Redfin Butterfly Fish, and the Chevron Butterfly Fish… I’ll leave you to try and figure out which is which (hint: I…
In one of my rare good wide-angle shots, I managed to capture this well timed shot as Elka, one of the volunteers during the two week cetacean expedition, approached this massive tabular coral with the school of Yellow Striped Goatfish underneath.
