These guys are cool. A little skittish, but once you get one comfortable with being close to them, they love to pose. Oh, and it is entirely accurate to call these “guys” as they are all adult males. Ribbon eels change color and sex as…
Category: Underwater
Well, normally I would hold onto something like this and post it special, but since I’ve got quite a number of posts already scheduled, I’m just going to give you all a treat of both of the diving highlight videos I put together today at…
So feather stars are one of those things that are easy to overlook on a dive. But I’ve always wanted to see one swimming… and when I was in Amed, I got to see not one, but two separate feather stars swimming… and managed to…
To compete with that jumping spider, here is a nudibranch that is absolutely beautiful. I wish I had my ID books with me, but for now just enjoy the photos (sorry they are a little over-exposed).
Sometimes you have a good photo, but there is a ton of backscatter in the way… In dive photography, backscatter is when you have particulate in the water and when the flash strobe fires, that particulate reflects the light back and just makes for a…
Not really a ghost, and not really a pipefish, but these guys are definitely ornate. Though some quick research says they are actually fairly common, they are rather difficult to find with their very cryptic appearance, so I was lucky to have Iluh to point…
I’m not 100% sure this is the same species that is usually called a Pikachu Nudibranch (Thecacera pacifica) as I can’t find anything confirming that there is a black color morph of them (and all of my nudibranch books are on the other side of…
Ok – I had another post all written up and ready to go for this, my 100th post on my new blog… but I moved it to the next post, and I think you’ll agree that this is a much cooler subject to use for…
Nothing special, but here’s that video of the diving in Plymouth at promised…
Bouncing forward in the Europe time, here are some jellies that I saw while diving in Plymouth. I only used the GoPro with the MacroMateMini (same setup I used for the Summersville Macro Subjects) with varying results… But still cool to have some cold water…
Since I’ve shared plenty of nudibranch photos, I thought maybe I should share some of their eggs… Most nudis lay their eggs in a spiral pattern that often looks like a rose.
Another nudibranch that I got to add to my species list while I was in Andava. Unfortunately, my flash cable had managed to come unattached on the boat ride out to this dive (our final dive for the expedition) so I wasn’t getting very good…
I recently completed some open water dives in Summersville Lake, WV for a drysuit course I was taking. At the same time, I took my new MacroMateMini filter for my GoPro and captured some video of some tiny fish. Someone said the one with the…
I’d seen one of these in Wakatobi, so as soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I was looking at. Unfortunately the camera was acting up and I could not get a good photo of the larger female like I wanted. There were…
