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allenanix · 5 months

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#ocean life #ocean view #ocean animals #ocean #sea animals #sea creatures #sea #water creature #water life #nature #photography #under water photography #underwater #under water life

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benthicsbelow · 2 years

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Day 182 (half way through).

Today I got in the water to mark getting half way through my challenge. I had made plans to dip early with Michelle, then go for a celebratory coffee. But I woke up feeling fluey so decided to go down later for a quiet dip on my own.

After walking Sid and watching a pod of dolphins cruise by earlier in the day, I finally went down to M Bay around 3.30pm. I didn't take my dive things cause I thought I would only feel well enough to dip. However, when I saw the water, I got back in the car and drove home to get them.

When am I going to learn to always be prepared for a dive?

It wasn’t a particularly spectacular day in the ocean. The water was flat and the afternoon sun was dropping below the clouds. But it was the fact that I had the chance to get in that made me excited and so so grateful for where I live. I mean, this is the point of this whole challenge, right? To do the thing that defines me everyday - to get in the ocean and spend time with the creatures so I know who I am? And here in front of me was another opportunity to do that, so I chose to take it.

The visibility was murky on the way to the island and then misty when I got there due to the lack of light. Feeling grateful and hopeful about seeing my friends, I scooted around the front of the island until I saw the first creature. An Eagle Ray. I could see something sitting on it’s wing, I thought it had an orca injury, so I slowly slinked down to take a look. This little being was only a juvenile (it still had some of its blue spots) and when I got closer, I was heart broken to see it was pierced by two hooks (one in the wing and one in the spiracle) with thick fishing line tied between them. This poor creature was tearing its own flesh every time it tried to swim - aaaaaaaggggh! Without thinking it through, I reached out to try and free it, but the ray freaked out and swam off. I could see that it was able to move reasonably well but I felt terrible for startling it and potentially hurting it more. I took a minute or so to look for it, wondering how I could navigate removing the hooks without getting a barb to the chest, but it had gone.

I felt so defeated... what is the universe trying to tell me... does it send me these creatures so I can tell their stories?

I felt so hopeless that I considered not taking any more photos for the whole dive, making the tangled ray the first and only photo to mark the occasion. But then I thought about what is necessary to make people want to protect the creatures of the ocean. And the only way I can support that is to try and change peoples attitude towards the ocean by helping them learn to love it, and my photos help to do that.

So I overcame my sadness and went out looking for some shots. There wasn't much to photograph, but I did love seeing the little sponge growing after all the damage the marine heatwave did this season.

So here’s to another 183 days (give or take a few hours or so) of opportunities to take photos which make people care more for our ocean.

#marine conservation #bycatch #eagle ray #porifera #sea sponge #winter diving #new zealand #ocean #free diving #underwater #under water photography

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dandylion-virtual-adventurer · 11 months

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Beyond Blue 🐳

#beyond blue #beyond blue game #video games #virtual ocean #virtual photography #whales #virtual animals #video game animals #under water #under water photography #gaming #gaming screenshot

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geezerwench · 2 years

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💎 Squid

Member Photographer Name: Dennis Corpuz

#squid #dennis corpuz #under water photography

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leona-florianova · 1 year

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While the dependant plants in Trigun Stampede look cool as combination of angelic alien orchids and some sea creatures in their little aquariums, im intensely bitter because of how literal they made it (oh they really are plants plants huh) and the lack of the absurdly massive light bulbs they resided in in the 98 anime and manga..Like, Not all of the light bulbs were humongous, hanging over towns, but the ones that were, were mindboggling...There is something intense about something so powerful (and kinda eldritch) being captured in something so massive yet fragile looking. I loved the old bulb and plant designs so much because they werent just cool aesthetics... I loved them because their size and design didnt make sense. As a man made horrors beyond our comprehension shouldnt make sense. And their visuals evoke in me memories of how it felt standing at a foot of a 125 meters tall cooling tower of a nuclear power plant. Its monumental, useful and potentially very dangerous... so much so one has to feel humbled.

- Plants in trigun 98 (we didnt learn much about them because there wasnt enough of material to work with)

- Plants in the manga...whats important to note, is that the plants often stood over the towns as in constant vigil (monumental yet sentient)... not just visible from all around by everyone, but they themselves kept on observing all the people living their lives underneath their bulbs... All the people prospering from their services.... or fighting and killing over them

- Plants in Stampede.. While they are still interesting designs, the little aquariums conveniently small enough to be more easily stolen dont do it for me, even though they still represent the power of captured nature. They are also...very very sheltered from humans. Hidden and overlooked, although important.. Which makes me sad. And doubtful that there will be many interaction scenes between them and the people... Hopefully in next season there will be big bulbs and interactions.. but who knows.. (Ok, like, it makes sense that a core of a power plant should be hidden and protected inside of a building, but I wish to see some big bulbs!! I wish to see them spilled out of the wreckages of the big space ships)

And to illustrate what I meant about the comparison to actual nuclear power plants in their absurd monumental insanity (which is somewhat also sort of mundane??).. here are some photos of our nuclear power plants. Dukovany and Temelín