Category: San Diego
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Here’s What It’s Like To Dive San Diego Bay
Ever wondered what it would be like to dive San Diego Bay under the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s historic ships? I most certainly hadn’t—until local dive club and non-profit Power Scuba announced their massive underwater cleanup of the Port of San Diego, where they would be removing trash from the bay floor beneath that…
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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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Diving The Kelp Cutter: The El Rey Wreck
Every once in a while, we get off the beaten path a bit and dive some of the less-often-seen shipwrecks of San Diego’s Wreck Alley. El Rey is one of those wrecks: I believe I’ve (now) dove it twice in my nearly three years here. Both times, though, I’ve been blown away with how fun the…
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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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Updated Post: USS Hogan Wreck
New photos from the USS Hogan Wreck south of San Diego, California.
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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.…
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Dreamy Nudibranch
The kelp forest can be a pretty dreamy place. The light coming through the kelp canopy has an ethereal beauty, and the gentle sway of the kelp stalks in light surge could rock you to sleep. I wanted to capture that surreal, unearthly quality in this week’s nudibranch photos.
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Photo of the Week: A Wolf Eel on the USS Hogan Wreck
The USS Hogan wreck is pretty much the perfect San Diego dive site–the conditions are usually excellent, the sea life is abundant, and the depth and distance from port are such that the site has an air of exclusivity to it. It’s also so rife with wolf eels that it almost–note I said almost–renders them…