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How much photo editing is too much for a nature shot? Ansel Adams heavily altered and improved his photos in the darkroom, famously viewing the photographic negative as a musical score and the final darkroom print as the performance. As for me, I have traditionally come down on the side of getting my images 90 […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5198: The fish in the foreground is a bird wrasse (terminal phase), and the fish in the background is a manybar goatfish. Interesting fact: all bird wrasses start out as female (initial phase). When the dominant male in a harem dies or leaves, the largest, most dominant female undergoes the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5194: In the interest of species variety, I’m going to temporarily switch from the Vancouver Island photos I’ve been posting during the past month and dig deeper into the files containing photos I’ve shot in other parts of the world. This is a spinecheek anemonefish, photographed last year in the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5153: This colorful beauty is a giant clam, photographed last year in the Raja Ampat of New Guinea.
Marty’s photo of the day #5147: I shot this photo while snorkeling in a tiny lake filled with stingless jellyfish. In the ocean, stings from this species of jellyfish pack a wallop, but in the lake, where they are cut off from predators, they’ve lost their ability to sting. Swimming with them was so much […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5146: Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish. They can reach sixty feet in length, and their mouths can be five feet wide. Last year, Deb and I swam with four whale sharks of various sizes in the Raja Ampat of New Guinea. We even got a few unintended whale […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5127: This photo may fool your eyes. You are looking at a yellowmargin triggerfish being cleaned by other fish. (Photographed in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5124: Looking into the eyes of a maroon stone crab. (Photographed in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5116: Sunset over the Raja Ampat of New Guinea. Shot last year while sailing on the wooden pinisi ship the Katharina.
Marty’s photo of the day #5101: Here’s a scenic shot, taken last year, somewhere in the Raja Ampat of New Guinea.
Mary’s photo of the day #5083: This underwater scene features reticulated dascyllus and black-tailed dascyllus. (Photographed in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5049: This is a yellowfin parrotfish, photographed last year in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.
Marty’s photo of the day #5048: These are ornate butterflyfish, photographed last year in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.
Marty’s photo of the day #5047: This is a giant clam. And if you are of a certain age, you will now be stuck on “Rock Lobster” for the rest on the day. (Photographed in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5031: These are robust sea squirts. (Photographed in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea.)
Eventually I will get to more spectacular underwater photos, but I think this shot demonstrates the difference between what I had been posting previously from the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea and what I will be posting in the coming weeks from the Galapagos Islands. The Raja Ampat has incredible coral reefs that the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4933: On the day after the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good, posting a colorful nature photo doesn’t feel right. So instead, I am posting a willie wagtail, the least colorful bird I saw last year in New Guinea.
Here come the bottlenose dolphins! Deb and I swam with bottlenose dolphins last month. Getting up early, we took the dinghy from The Katharina to an area where the dolphins were known to hang out. For most of the time the dolphins were shy. They sank into the murky water and only surfaced when necessary […]
I was standing on a dock in the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea when this beautiful blue parrotfish swam close. With only my Canon land camera in hand, I decided to see what would happen if I shot from above. I think it turned out kind of cool. Artsy even.
Marty’s photo of the day #4907: It’s a fish photobomb! While snorkeling the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea last month, I tried hard to get a good horned bannerfish (lower) photo, but they would always turn at the last moment and never seemed to be in crisp focus. Late in the trip, I thought […]
