http://www.tonywublog.com Pix and Thoughts about Underwater Photography & Stuff Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:16:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out this photo of three different goby species sharing a single burrow. From back to front, the fish are: Stonogobiops yasha, Stonogobiops nematodes, and Amblyeleotris yanoi. Photo taken in Menjangan, Bali at POS 2 dive site, 23 metres, by my friend Takashi Nagamatsu, who owns underwater camera shop Aquaforum ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081114/three-of-a-kind.html Word play is fascinating in any language, even more interesting when it extends across two languages. A friend brought the bags pictured here to me last night, at a gathering of people I've met via whale, dolphin and sea lion trips. The army-green bag on the left caught my eye ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081113/humpbag.html I had an opportunity today to see the skeleton of a north pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica). The skeleton is on display at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. At 17.1 metres in length, the skeleton is enormous. It's from a 67.2-tonne male that was caught in 1961 near ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081111/humbling-experience.html Instead of writing a trip report about my recent visit to Ambon, I played around with a web 2.0 service I've been watching for some time to put together a multimedia essay of sorts. The service is called Vuvox, and essentially, it allows you to combine various media forms into ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081108/ambon-adventure.html A friend emailed this to me. I searched around, and found that it's been posted a few times around the net. I'm not sure if it's genuine (I can't find any references to an original source), or if it's the product of an adult with a lot of spare time, ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081106/what-kids-know-about-the-ocean.html I posted a few images from my recent Ambon trip on Flickr (slideshow below). I'm still working on a summary of my trip ("contemplating" is perhaps a more accurate representation than "working on" at this stage), which I'll post when I finish. http://www.tonywublog.com/20081031/ambon-slideshow.html One of the most fulfilling aspects of doing what I do is that I have a chance to meet cool people from all over the world. Last night, I managed to hook up with Mark Thorpe, who's an excellent videographer and has been involved with many fascinating projects. I first ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081028/meeting-mark-2.html I just received another photo of me with a couple of whales from another person who was with me in Tonga earlier this year. This photo was from the same encounter as the photo I received last month. Thank you Izume-san! http://www.tonywublog.com/20081026/more-me-at-work.html This is an editorial (168 kB) that appeared recently in ultraMARINE magazine, a bi-monthly publication in the UK for aquarists. http://www.tonywublog.com/20081025/communication.html I'm back from a great trip to Ambon, in the midst of going through images, which essentially means staring at a computer screen for hours on end while downing litres (or quarts, depending on your preference of measurement units) of caffeinated beverages. It's amazing how glamorous underwater photography can be ... http://www.tonywublog.com/20081024/raw-results.html