It’s that time of year once again! Mike Veitch and Luca Vaime of the Underwater Tribe in Bali are here and will soon be conducting their annual underwater photography workshop here at NAD. For the next couple of weeks the Tribe will be taking over the NAD blog and posting photos, stories, and updates here…
DetailsNight Dives in Lembeh are pretty amazing, you’ll find all kinds of cool stuff that normally hides in the day; crustaceans, cephalopods and a whole myriad of other invertebrates come out to feed at night. We have been playing with the idea of a black water night dive for a few years, but we finally…
DetailsIt’s now almost two years that we have a Floating Jetty at our Resort. This custom made wooden deck offers enough space for our 4 dive boats. They can be boarded at a comfortable level at any time, no matter if high tide or low tide. Getting on and off the dive boats is really so much…
DetailsWe are camera geeks and own several Video and Photo setups. From professional 6K video cameras until high end DSLRs. And we use and dive them a lot. But the newest member in our camera family is rather small: The Olympus TG-4. From now on it will be available for Rental at NAD-Lembeh and also for our Dive Guides…
DetailsGood Underwater Photography obviously has to do a lot with knowing your camera, settings and lighting technique. But like with any other type of photography it’s finding the right subject and the right angle what comes first. Feeding Whales, Baitballs or yawning Rhinopias come in handy here. They draw attention. Unfortunately there will be moments, when these…
DetailsThe Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) is one of the more attractive Morays and commonly found in the Lembeh Strait. Due to its elegant shape, strong colours and predictable movements it is also a very popular photo subject. Ribbon Eels are almost always found living in sand holes – even though they can sometimes be seen free…
DetailsThe Tuberculated Frogfish or Bandfin Frogfish (Antennatus tuberosus) is one of the rarer found Frogfish species in Lembeh Strait. This one is actually even the first one i have ever seen here. So obviously we were quite excited when one of our guides came back to the resort and asked us to check a guests camera…
DetailsDivers sometimes think, that Dive Guides have Superpowers. But finding Critters is not about having a build in Magic Radar or X-Ray Eyes. Okay, Good Dive Guides do have excellent eyes, but they mainly score with local knowledge of the dive sites and knowledge of the Habitats and “Micro Habitats”. And this is actually not that difficult…
DetailsFrom all the Critters to be seen in Lembeh Strait, the Mantis Shrimp is definitely one that the untrained Critter Spotter can easily find on its own. At least many of them … there is not only one kind of Mantis Shrimp. First of all, the Family of the Mantis Shrimp consists of predators only…
DetailsOn a recent Muck Dive in the north of the Lembeh Strait we had a blast: Hairy Frogfishes (3 of them), Mimic Octopus, Wonderpus, Coconut Octopus, Seahorses and many more. Plus i had to find out, that all these subjects where way too big for my 100mm lens on APS-C sensor. So i left all these critters…
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