Vase Coral food

Vase Coral foodThe twisted and wave like folds of an enormous Vase Coral colony emerging from the ocean floor in a tropical reef. Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea.

Abstract created by a close view of snow gum tree bark

I find it far more rewarding than using a remote craft

timed to confuse predators by a sheer weight of numbers

I can hear a cursing in the night and then the word ‘photographer’

Pristine staghorn coral forests bathe in tropical sunshine along the coastline of Papua New Guinea

We are only beginning to understand their ability to communicate using complex cells known as chromatophores

The not so subtle wrinkles and folds around the eye of this Elephant make for a wonderfully textured image

Roughly textured granite rock with lichen growth and quartz

Antarctic Circle

my legs are beneath his chest and I had to use a 20mm lens to capture this frame because he was so close

Glacier Gey

A Greater Flamingo sleeps with its head beneath wing feathers HongKong Zoological Gardens