Decorator crabs make fascinators seem lame in comparison to the extravagance of their accessorising. There are hundreds of species of crabs which decorate themselves in this way and fashion really has nothing to do with it. It’s all about survival. By attaching algae or sponges of their immediate environment they can go about their business […]
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Going back over some of my older photos I came across this golden orb weaver but the background was unusually green and lush. I usually associate golden orb weavers with the arid Australian outback so what confused me for a while is that I was expecting to see muted browns as I was sure this […]
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Just imagine being two inches tall, opening your eyes, turning on your torch and coming face to face with … Assuming you are still with me you’d quickly become entranced by those amazing blue-green opalesque eyes and what at first seemed ugly becomes beautiful. You can spot a gurnard perch from quite a distance at […]
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One of the wonderful things I like about macro photography are those tiny little surprises you discover when you zoom in on your subject while editing. What seemed at first to be a solitary nudibranch, in this image Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, turned out to have a few hidden gems, those little creature just too small to […]
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This hand sized fan worm is one of the many spectacular creatures that inhabit our local waters. I say local but it really is another world altogether. It looks like a plant; like some exotic miniature palm tree. This guy however is a worm which builds a tubular casing away from its supporting structure so […]
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