I just finished two days (and nights) in the face down position required after the surgery on my right eye. At least six weeks of no flying / no diving will follow. No diving means no new underwater pictures on this site (and anywhere else). However, I’ll be processing / publishing / commenting my older […]
Young snapper look like silvery blue-dotted agile fish. The adults remind me of heavy trucks … or sometimes knights in full plated armour. Keywords: snapper australasian silver seabream Pagrus auratus “Pagrus auratus” fish coastal Pacific ocean underwater undersea temperate “Chrysophrys auratus” Chrysophrys Sparidae silver close-up “close up” portrait scale
This young leatherjacket (Parika scaber) behaved differently from the rest I met on that dive. It was very curious, sometimes too much I would say. It tried to bite the port of my camera housing with its tiny mouth. Anyway, that behaviour enabled me to make close-up pictures of it without chasing and disturbing. Thank […]
I’ve found this small octopus leaning to a vertical rock in shallow water. There was no hole around where it could hide in. I felt a little sorry for it. However, it did not try to escape, instead it patiently endured my photographic endeavour observing what I was doing. That all happened on my way […]
I love that misty look of a kelp forest submerged in murky water. It can be scary … you don’t know what hides a couple of meters away from you … but it offers a taste of mystery. You cannot see from the distance so you don’t know. You must get close to find out. […]
Shallow water kelp forests around Goat Island near Leigh are a source of unending fascination. Keywords: kelp forest “kelp forest” sea weed weeds “sea weed” “sea weeds” underwater undersea brown algae shallow “shallow water” vegetation surface reflection pacific ocean temperate