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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In the visual cacophony of this scene the camera has captured everything from the jetty pylons and fish swimming near the surface to the bright orange nudibranch grazing on the rocky reef foreground. Is this really a fish’s eye view within the underwater world? Perhaps, but not for the reasons you might think. Optically speaking […]
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This image is the last of my Bronzies set; a collection of tiny bronze figurines by Tomm Otterness, adorning his much larger ‘Other Worlds’ installation within Hamad International Airport. Yes it probably is the cliché of clichés. Still, because they are in bronze there is something ‘other worldly’ which disconnects it from humanity. So, clichéd […]
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