Another first for me. Finally after years of diving I have finally found Veronica. I called her Veronica as it is an anagram of Verconia verconis, her real name. She has no common name as is the case with most of our beautifully weird and wonderful sea critters. Unless they are commercially significant or in […]
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Tucked away safe and sound in a previously owned razorfish shell is a cute little girl octopus. I know she is female as just outside her protective hideout there are two very enthusiastic males battling it out to join her. When all was done and the looser vanquished she did not however bow to the […]
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A moment later I was wet, my camera was wet and my evening on the beach was over. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Salty Bathtime’ 1s f/20 ISO100 15mm
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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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