The afternoon sunlight caught my germinating chili plants in the window sill and I just had to capture it! It’s silly of course. Light can’t be captured but hopefully you get the same feeling I did. Now looking forward to the hot fruits of these little beauties in the months ahead. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Hot […]
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The Short-Head Seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps, is one of the cutest seahorses in the sea and Edithburgh is great place to find and photograph them. I almost never see them during the day but at night a bit of hunting will soon find them. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘I Sea a Horse’ 1/100s f/14 ISO320 100mm
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Always willing to pose for an image is Edithburgh’s Gurnard Pearch. When nothing else seems to want to stay in the frame; when the hunt for a prettier subject is failing; when the surge is making midwater images impossible; there is always a gurnard perch, or three sitting on the sand patiently waiting for their […]
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The world of macro marine photography is full of life and colours and action that many new divers simply swim on by. However for photographers and those who take the time to look nudibranchs make wonderful subjects due to their diversity of colour and form. This bulldozer of a sea slug, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, may only […]
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This bizarre looking sea sponge in the sea grass beds off Edithburgh Jetty reminds me of a a cross between a diseased heart and a human brain. It really does look like something that has been recently extracted from an animal and dumped on the ocean floor. Oddly enough this strange looking form is actually […]
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