Picture of the day: An ocellaris clownfish dancing among the tentacles of its anemone host. These fish were everywhere in Dumaguete, Philippines but they are in constant motion, so they are not easy to capture.
It's always disappointing to see invasive lionfish on Caribbean dive sites, as they devour the local populations and have few predators. That said, they are visually interesting, with so many different colors and textures warning predators about the venomous spines.
Yellowhead jawfish are one of my favorite creatures to photograph, but they take a lot of patience. They are often quite cautious and will retreat into their burrows, but if you give them some space and remain calm they will sometimes come out and take a look.
Flamingo Tongues (the name of this snail) are fun to photograph and look at, but they are a menace to soft corals, secreting chemicals to dissolve the coral so they can digest it. They often leave a trail of destruction behind them as in this image. The snail is moving upward to devour more polyps.
I've managed to get #mastodon and #pixelfed running as helm charts, to test following/liking/posting to both to make sure I'm not doing anything silly!
A picture of a Pixelfed Post that was published from DiveDB: It reads Dive #441 - Edithburgh Jetty Depth: 6.90m, Duration: 1:27 Crazy night dive at Edithburgh with a number of cephalopods making an appearance, as well as a few other critters!
A picture of a Post from DiveDB: It reads Dive #441 - Edithburgh Jetty Depth: 6.90m, Duration: 1:27 Crazy night dive at Edithburgh with a number of cephalopods making an appearance, as well as a few other critters!
Just got back from a lovely dive trip in Fiji staying at Volivoli Beach Resort. Primarily diving around the main island and the Vatu-i-Ra conservation park.
The photo is taken with an Olympus TG-6 at around 10m depth under water.
The first photo is what darktable makes out of the raw photo automatically when importing, the second is what the underwater mode of the camera ends up with. The third photo is the result of editing the raw photo in darktable for <5 minutes.
The end result looks very close to how it appeared to my eyes when the photo was taken.
A small selection of the pictures from Sunday's dive near Ammouliani with @vivia. First dive of the year but it was already surprisingly warm! 23°C and sunny, 18°C surface water temperature and still 16°C at 25m depth. We saw a lot of interesting animals.
Featuring: a yellow nudibranch (phyllidia flava) grazing on seaweed next to red finger sponge, a painted comber swimming on top of rocks covered with some black sponge, a biscuit sea star in a little cave surrounded by colorful sponges, and in the top-left a nudibranch ("sea cow", peltodoris atromaculata) and some yellow sea anemones, and last but not least two starfishes, one red one with five arms and another orange one that once had six arms plus some bonus mermaid's cup at the bottom.
My dry suit recently sprung a small leak in the wrist seal. I decided to do my own wrist seal replacement, so I wrote up a blog post about it. This isn't a full tutorial of how to do it - I'll leave that to the pros. This is more meant as a tips and tricks/overview of the process to help others decide if they want to do it themselves.
I've put 2 cold water dives on the new seal and it works great!
Picture of the day: You all seemed to enjoy the Ocellaris clownfish, so I figured I would share another anemonefish! This beauty is a Clark's Anemonefish, differentiated by the neon blue highlights.
Clownfish of the day: OK, one more clownfish to share. This time we have tomato clownfish in the beautiful reefs of Apo Island. Wide angle photography is not my specialty, but I really like this reef scene with the clownfish moving through the huge anemone arcing across the surface, giant clam in the foreground, and soft corals in the background.
It's World Turtle Day, so here's my favorite turtle picture I've taken to date! It's always fun to see a turtle on a dive, especially when they are chill or even curious about us. This individual in Bonaire was not bothered as I snapped some pictures against the backdrop of the beautiful blue water.