This will be the first in a series I’ll come back to from time to time. Every once in a while I decide to try and get as close as possible to a fish and get a close-up of just a single eye – quite…
Category: Underwater
This is a mix of portraits of Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and Long-armed Octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi) – see if you can figure out which is which…
I don’t always take the time to photograph eels when I come across them. So some extent it might be because with the macro lens on the camera is it difficult to feel like I’m getting anything different than I’ve photographed before… but because other…
Apparently IDing pipefish is extremely difficult and my book basically says for a full positive ID it requires the specimen to be caught so fin rays and other anatomical features can be counted in detail. But it does list one category labeled as Diamond Pipefish,…
Usually if I want to take a photo of a small fish swimming up in the water column it is a challenge to get the right shot, but when I’m trying to take a photo of an octopus in its burrow and a little juvenile…
I think these are two different species of nudibranchs. Both in the Placobranchidae family, I think the first is Elysia tuca and the second is Elysia subornata. Oddly enough, both of these show up right next to each other in my ID book, so it…
Bobbit Worms (Eunice spp.) are the things of nightmares. They are ambush predators that live in burrows in the sand and usually only have a large pair of pincers visible waiting to trap fish. They can grow up to 6 feet long! I have no…
During one of the dives, I had a malfunction with my camera and my strobes stopped working, so rather than just give up, I resorted to trying to do some photography with just the focus lights. I only got a couple keepers, but I think…
A Seaweed Blenny (Parablennius marmoreus) caught mid-‘yawn’ and a Balloonfish (Diodon holocanthus) with its normal look… Try to not laugh, I challenge you!
Just a few more photos and a short video to add to yesterday’s post…
Last week I saw a listing for a Sea Turtle Sunrise Walk with Dr. Larry Woods (a local sea turtle researcher). I debated it for a bit wondering whether it really would be worth doing, but eventually decided that this is precisely what the whole…
I found this Lined Seahorse (Hippcampus erectus) during one of the dives at the bridge. After a few minutes, it was obvious it no longer wanted to have its photo taken, so I left it alone, but I wish I had managed some better photos.…
I have finally managed to put together the first video from my dives at the Blue Heron Bridge. I opted to just go ahead and do them in order so to speak, so this video is of the first two weeks of diving at the…
I’m sure this won’t be my last photo of an Arrow Crab – they are pretty common in this area but I still find them to be a really cool critter. I feel like they are one of those animals that would be much more…
