Category: Sea Monsters
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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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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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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.
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Photo of the Week: Black Sea Nettle Jellyfish on the USS Hogan Wreck
Regular readers are by now aware of my obsession with the black sea nettle jellyfish. I worked a dive charter a few weeks ago and spotted my first black sea nettle of the summer from the confines of the boat. It was all over–from that moment on, I lived and breathed black sea nettles. (Seriously:…
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Macro Mania
I love shooting wide angle. When the water is clear, there is nothing more gratifying than that fisheye lens and dome port. Wrecks. Kelp forests. Big animals. Coral reefs. And people. Wide angle means context, and people love context. People identify with the scene. They like seeing themselves, or people like themselves, in the frame.…