During my time in Florida, I would often see Snowy Egrets (Egretta thula), but it was usually as they would fly away. They seemed a thousand times more skittish than any other birds I was seeing in Florida, which was unfortunate because they really are…
A very colorful Lantern Bass (Serranus baldwini) that let me get rather close for a very nice headshot…
I converted a couple shots of the river otter I saw at Riverbend Park into black & white… the results are almost perfect in my opinion.
For two of the shark dives with Salty Divers, we used a wreck as a landing spot to be able to more safely observe the sharks. As we approached, I snapped this quick shot of two other divers and the wreck.
These Brown Basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus) lizards were fairly common in Florida but they were pretty skittish and hard to get decent photos of them. They also have a funny way of running as they will stand up on their hind legs and run on two…
The Blue Heron Bridge is a great spot for finding juvenile fish…. here are a few… Possible a juvenile Barred Hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella) but it is hard to be certain as they apparently get their coloration as they grow, but this one is definitely starting…
As my days in Florida were dwindling down, I read that Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge was a good place to see Roseate Spoonbills (the large pink birds that kind of look like flamingos but have a spoon shaped bill). I got up well before…
I’ve seen Yellowhead Jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) many times before, but I think these are definitely among my best photos of them… even if they aren’t the classic photo of them holding a mouthful of eggs…
Well… after being excited by having found that previous Sea Spider, and thinking it was just a lucky find, I managed to not only repeat the achievement, but to do so in rather dramatic fashion. I found two different species of sea spiders on the…
This is an adult Florida Gallinule or Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) with its chick… they’re a fairly common water bird in the wetlands near West Palm Beach and I would see them quite often, but for a little while I was able to see them…
These little Tiger Gobies (Tigrigobius macrodon) are cool tiny fish, even if they are tough to photograph because of their somewhat transparent bodies and their tendency to be very skittish and dart away quickly.
Though now all of these show the namesake blue coloration in their gills, and none of them are giving the more impressive threat display that pikeblennies are somewhat famous for, these Bluethroat Pikeblennies (Chaenopsis ocellata) appeared at the Blue Heron Bridge one day and were…
These Curly-tailed Lizards were fairly prolific in the area I was staying in West Palm Beach / Riviera Beach in Florida. Unfortunately, they were almost always too quick to get decent photos of until I came across this one at Okeeheelee Park and it seemed…
Ok – technically this is not truly a nudibranch… but most people call all of these things nudis, so I’m being a bit flexible here. Anyway, I’ve recently been thinking about diving (pun intended) into my archives and sharing some photos that have not yet…
