Los Angeles freelance science writer and editor
Day 4 of the black and white challenge. I love this photo of honeycomb coral but I sometimes wonder whether my tastes are too simple in underwater photography. It was somehow an easy photograph to take and yet I am not sure how often people actually stop to take such photos of the coral. It... Continue Reading →
Day 3 of the black and white challenge. Goby on closed soft coral. It looks like a trick that suddenly the soft coral disappeared and revealed the hiding place of the goby. I just really liked the texture without the soft coral "flowers".
My second entry in the 5 day black and white challenge. Some more famous so-called celebrity backsides have been flooding/plaguing the internet lately. I thought I would challenge those photos with a classy photo of a nudibranch...sort of from behind...
Yikes my photos are usually all about color and I have been tagged in a black and white challenge. My first photo then is a black and white of a black and white nudibranch very up close...taken in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. A friend calls them the Chanel nudibranch.
I officially sold an underwater photo print. Of course it is one of my favorites-a bleached anemone with the resident anemone fish from Komodo, Indonesia 2013. Unbelievable because I am really a scientist, not an artist by training. Although it has been argued that I am not the artist-it is of course nature "who" is... Continue Reading →
The best sunsets are where there is clean air. Among other things (like spectacular marine life) you can find clean air in Raja Ampat which means the four kings in Indonesian. Missing diving and missing Indonesia...
This sunset over Gangga Island in North Sulawesi looks like a spotlight from the earth.
the rays of sunlight through the clouds are focused like a searchlight on the ocean at Kuta Beach on Bali
This photo is perhaps slightly overexposed with regard to the sun. But it looks as if the sun is cooking up something in the ocean which it probably is...
the sky is like one of those art exercises where the black crayon layered over multiple colors is scraped away in a pattern to reveal the color beneath.
Janice Nigro 