Posts Tagged ‘Lembeh’

Blue Rings

Close-up photos of a tiny blue-ringed octopus in the Lembeh Strait, together with the story of how our guide found it: My guide extended his (bare) finger and gently tapped on a small protuberance on the rock below us. The thing was no bigger than my thumb.

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‘Death Mask’

(Three underwater photos of the stargazer, an ambush predator fish that buries itself in the sand at night, waiting to ambush small fish swimming past.) The story of finding and feeding a stargazer on a night dive.

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Tropical View

HDR exposure: Afternoon shot looking west from Lembeh Island across the Lembeh Strait to North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The view is framed by tropical plants. This shot is for all those enduring winter in the northern hemisphere — especially the central USA.

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Mandarin Love

(Two photos of mandarinfish mating.) The Photo Tourist just returned from our annual “big trip;” this is the first post of a probable series from Indonesia. Description of a sunset dive to photograph mating mandarinfish at Lembeh Resort.

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Mandarin Love

(Two photos of mandarinfish mating.) The Photo Tourist just returned from our annual “big trip;” this is the first post of a probable series from Indonesia. Description of a sunset dive to photograph mating mandarinfish at Lembeh Resort.

Mandarin Love is a post from: thePhotoTourist.com.
Images and text copyright © Rick Collier and thePhotoTourist. All rights reserved.