Again – like the other jumping spiders I found in Bali, I have no clue what the name is for this spider (if there even is one), but with that yellow coloring and the black stripes, I figured I’d call it a Bumblebee Jumping Spider.
Category: Bali
While I was in Bali, I would make a point to check any sea stars I saw – especially ones with damaged or missing arms – to see if I could find any Harlequin Shrimp as they prey on sea stars. That was how I…
I’ve gotten better at getting photos of shrimp gobies and their burrow-mate shrimps, but maybe one of these days I’ll get some decent video since it is fun to watch the shrimp do the excavation work on the burrows. I did look this one up…
I am sorry I haven’t been posting anything recently – it has been a bit difficult mustering the motivation these days. Today I came up with an idea to help me change that, and I now have a way to help me eliminate the difficulty…
Not exactly sure which species of guard crab this is (even with my ID books), but I like the super aggressive posturing by such a relatively tiny animal.
This species of shrimp has been on my list of ones I was hoping to see some day, but they’ve been quite elusive… so imagine my surprise when we found multiple of them on the same dive… and not just in the same spot, but…
Another closeup shot of that coconut octopus from the other day…
A handful of dragonflies photographed at Jiwa Damai…
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…
One of the last couple days during my last stay in Bali, I borrowed a motorbike and went for a ride up into the hills and then along the coast. It was a little bittersweet as I knew I was leaving, but I am pretty…
A colorful Desirable Flabellina (Coryphellina exoptata) nudibranch photographed on the USAT Liberty wreck.
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…
