We’ve been having fantastic diving recently, and we have been having some fun with the guys taking pictures and also annoying out yearly repeat guest, Mood. Mood has been to Lembeh every year for the last 5 years and still does not have the hairy octopus, he always missed it. We see it when he…
I started the week diving a lot, but with routine engine servicing (7 engines over 2 days), new restaurant furniture (pics to follow soon) and removing a flower bed and preparing for the final phase of the roof renovation (above the wet camera room) – I am heading into the weekend feeling I haven’t dived…
I touched on bracketing in the previous photo tips post. Bracketing was used (back in film camera times) to make sure that one of your shots from a sequence was correctly exposed; you take a sequence of shots at varied settings and hope that one was correct. As an example – if you set your…
With everyone shooting digital and huge memory cards it is quite easy these days to take 100+ photographs in a dive, especially in Lembeh. The key to getting a good photo that you are still happy with by the time you go home is to take your time and keep using the image review button. …
The Dragon Shrimp (Miropandalus hardingi) usually lives on whip corals and is quite a rare critter in Lembeh, although at the moment we seem to have a lot (and a lot of everything in general!). It is not a very exciting animal, so my video is quite short, it did move a little bit so there…
The Hairy Squat Lobster (Lauriea siagiani) lives in the crevices of the large barrel sponges here in the Lembeh Strait. They typically hide pretty well making it tricky to photograph them, and extremely hard to video them. I found this guy on a night-dive and he was sat out and moving around, in fact he…
The last few days I have been spending several hours diving in the same place freezing my ass off looking for this stupid fish, that I have named the asshole fish. The asshole fish lives in Seriatopora Corals from 1m to 10m depth and I hate him. He gets his name because he has some…
On our family break earlier this month we visited the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore for an afternoon. We did about 3 hours in the park which wasn’t enough time for making a good video, but was enough time to know I need to go back again someday. I shot this with a 70-200mm lens…
So, after the English Football team got there ass (arse) whooped by Sweden last night I thought to myself ‘what would Bent do?’ The answer was not hard to find, as our favourite Swede/Dane hybrid loves parasites and all things small and disgusting. I headed out on a dive with Stenly, Joni, Johan, Indra, Abner…
Last night I was feeling a little bored and felt that I needed to relieve some urges from deep in my soul. The only cure to that was to go and watch some sex! Before you all start thinking im losing my mind, I am, of course, talking about Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus). These beautiful little…