One of the benthic animals that we identified for our surveys were zooanthids. We didn’t get to the level of species identification, and flipping through my reef creature ID book quickly, there is little info in there about them. This is a less common species…
The guy above is an Arc-eye Hawkfish and the gal (yes, I am sure it is a female because the males have wavy lines on their cheeks) is a Speckled Sandperch. Neither fish were among the ones we surveyed and I realize I was pretty…
These trees are just so cool… The locals will carve into them to be able to drink the water that they store… and then eventually those carved openings become large enough that you can also use them for shelter… But there is just something to…
Well, I found a quick way to get some more posts… I have a bunch of photos I’ve uploaded with the intention of sharing, but have not yet done so… So first up is a cool nudibranch that I only saw a couple times on…
These are almost always somewhere on a coral reef, and they’re always interesting to look at, and fun to make disappear with just a wave of your hand…
I should ID this little guy, and I wish I had been able to get a photo with his burrow-mate shrimp (they’re usually much more skittish and vanish before the fish do)… but for now, just sharing a photo of a cool fish…
Finally complete. I feel it isn’t the best I can do, so I’ll have to collect more sets and try again in the future. I hope you enjoy. Warning: the audio might be set a little loud…
I was hoping to find some cool and crazy looking insects while in Madagascar (ok – we did get to see some stick insects, but I didn’t have the good camera with me that day), but while praying mantis are always fun to find and…
For many weeks in Andava, I was confused by numerous tracks in the sand around the huts and up on the dune near the huts. The tracks were continuous wavy lines, so they really appeared to be made by a snake, but they lacked the…
Sorry for not posting more recently, I’ve been trying to get the photos of the Milky Way processed in a way I am satisfied with, and I’ve been really struggling with that, so I’ve been spending time working on photos with little in the way…
On our overland tour north, we got to see some more lemurs… Oh – and in case you’re interested, I paid my deposit for another expedition with Blue Ventures – this time to Timor Leste in October/November/December. I’ll be doing a two week whale/coral watch…
I’m sitting in Paris this evening waiting for the rain to finish up so I can head out for some dinner, and while Paris is cool and all, what I’m really missing is this… The conditions were never favorable for any over/under shots, but I…
I can’t decide which version I like better…
I’ve been trying to get some photos of this kestrel since shortly after arriving in Andava, then one evening a pair of them posed for me right in the perfect light of sunset…
I’ll hopefully be putting together a couple timelapse videos, but for now, here’s a single frame of the Milky Way with a couple meteors…
