Category: Nature
A tiny little critter found during a night dive in Amed, this Olivar’s Squat Lobster (Munida olivarae) is only a little over an inch long including its claws.
This first shot, I got pretty close to this snake, pushing the minimum focusing distance of 3.2 feet on my Canon 100-400mm telephoto lens for this very nice close-up. Don’t worry – I had observed the snake for a long while before approaching this close,…
Today is another case where I had something else scheduled to go live, but I moved it to bump something up on the schedule. On Monday, I decided to head out specifically with two photographic subjects in mind… Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) and the NEOWISE…
Yes, you read that title correctly… this is a very deadly snail in the cone snail family. While I was on my Timor Leste expedition with Blue Ventures, our hazardous marine creatures lecture included a section about cone snails… of course most people scoff at…
A couple more of those Red-Spotted Newts (Notophthalmus v. viridescens).
Spotted (pun intended) these guys while out hiking on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail… though with that bright orange color, they certainly stand out. Red-spotted Newts (Notophthalmus v. viridescens).
These photos are of two different individuals, but they are among the coolest eels I’ve seen during diving. The Napoleon Snake Eel (Ophichthus bonaparti) gets to about two and a half feet long and lives in sandy burrows (as you can see from mostly just…
This seems to be a common thread, but here is another nudibranch that I am having a hard time identifying. I think the most likely identification is for Chromodoris tennentana or Goniobranchus tennentanus which are both the same (the Chromodoris family seems to have received…
Well, at least I think it is a Signalfin Goby (Coryphopterus signipinnis) – it is hard to tell with such a tiny and cryptic fish. They only get to about 1.25 inches long, but what is funny is I distinctly remember taking this photo and…
An odd looking fish we spotted during a muck dive on my second visit to La Bila, this is a Longhorn Cowfish (Lactoria conuta)… And those eyes are just as impressive as its horns…
This small butterfly fish was one of my favorites while in Timor Leste. I am pretty sure it is a Spot Banded Butterfly Fish (Chaetodon punctatofasciatus), but there is a possibility it is another species or even a hybrid. The research I’ve done said these…
It took a little while to ID this pair of Redbarred Shrimp Gobies (Amblyeleotris sp.) because the photo of them in the ID book has much more muted colors than this pair is exhibiting. They are tough to find more specifics online because I do…
Again – no clue on what species this is, and I’m not even sure what to call it other than as I described it in the post title. I did share another photo of one of these spiders in a previous post.
