Category: Animals
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Everything you need to know about ribbon eels, and a little about gymnastics
Reminiscent of the ribbon event in rhythmic gymnastics, ribbon eels are a dramatic sight. Here are some interesting facts about ribbon eels and some photos of these beautiful, fascinating creatures.
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I Got Pooped On By A Whale, And All I Saw Were These Lousy Manta Rays
It was hard to pinpoint where, exactly, the whales were, but I had a guess—and my guess was confirmed when we were suddenly doused with a brown cloud of whale poo. I’ll let the reality of that sink in for a second. Pooped on. By a whale.
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Add Electric Effects To Your Underwater Photos: A Topaz Glow Review
Topaz Glow doesn’t just leave your photos with the lights-in-the-tree twinkle. I mean, it can. But where Glow really shines (ahem) is in making an in-your-face, red-light-district, girls-girls-girls neon effect. It’s an acid trip. It’s the reflections of traffic lights at night in the rain. And it’s so, so rad.
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Photo of the Week: Painted Greenling (and a Bonus Hermissenda Nudibranch)
Those who have been following this blog for any length of time will recall that finding tiny surprise creatures in a photo is one of my favorite things in the whole world.
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This Spanish Shawl is the Goldilocks of Nudibranchs
In unpredictable surge and weird currents, it’s a challenge and a half to get a Spanish Shawl photo “just right.”
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The Easiest Way to Fix Ambient Light Underwater Photos: A Topaz ReMask Review
I really just love the people over at Topaz Labs. Every time I use a Topaz plugin, I’m blown away at how the Topaz developers manage to pack in features and precise controls while still maintaining the simplicity and ease of use the plugins are famous for. I’ve worked with Topaz Detail and Topaz Clean…
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Photo of the Week: Cyclosalpa affinis
DID YOU KNOW that the salp, while it looks like a jellyfish, is actually a tunicate, a member of the phylum Chordata, and is more closely related to vertebrates than it is to jellies?
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No Wolf Eel Left Behind
On Saturday, I got up at the ungodly hour of 4-something-a.m. and made the pilgrimage up to Long Beach to catch a charter out to dive the UB-88 submarine wreck. Sometimes, I think I’m doing “leisure” wrong.
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Red-Eye Medusa Jellyfish
Finding a Red-Eye Medusa Jellyfish (Polyorchis pencillatus) on the El Rey wreck in San Diego, California.
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Throwback Thursday: Salps, Underwater Poetry, and My First Technical Dive
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When dives give you decompression, write haiku.