Sea Monster

Category: Ocean Art

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

     

  • Blue shark wins Ocean in Focus contest

    Grand-Prize winner of this year’s Marine Photobank’s Ocean in Focus conservation photo contest is Terry Goss with this image of a blue shark snagged on a longline hook in waters off Rhode Island, US. In an interview with Marine Photobank, Terry said: When I started shooting underwater, it was immediately apparent that every shark image…

  • The real faces of science

    I know you’re busy. But this will only take a moment of your time. Really. And afterwards you will feel buoyed, empowered, brighter, stronger, smarter, more luminous. Well, relieved anyway. These, my friends, are Women Scientists Making Faces. And some of them work at sea. Watch out Hollywood movie stars, they’re coming after ya. Roll…

  • Rock Lobster

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqKRGW6_rw[/youtube]

  • Dolphin paradise

    by Mazarine Jasmine Bruno

  • Kelp me

    We’ve done plenty of fluid inspirational coral reef videos and surf videos. How about one from the kelp forest — with soundtrack? [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11200197[/vimeo] Hat tip to Jarrett Byrnes. Video by Gary Hawkins.

  • Just because you can’t see it

    … doesn’t mean it isn’t there. A Seamonster thumbs up to the striking visuals on this campaign from Advertisers Without Borders.  

  • Yeti crab – the Movie!

    Live from the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen, it’s . . . Yeti Crab – the Movie! Perhaps a bit of explanation is in order. We’re live (sort of) in Aberdeen with 953 of our closest friends and colleagues, catching up on the cutting edge of research on the wondrous and varied life…

  • Happy Friday… here’s a submarine sonnet!

    Bathyscaphe One thousand fathoms down, our halogens strike tube worms blooming in the methane seeps and spiral plumes of sulfides. We descend into the fizz escaping from the deep so vast and vacant that our sonar pings unanswered, and sinking still, the only light is ghostly cobalt, specks phosphorescing past the bathyscaphe’s thick glass. Sealed…

  • Fish – a good idea on paper

      During a visit to the Suma Aqualife Park in Japan a few months ago, I came across a captivating display of little origami sea creatures arrayed across an entire wall. The lighting was not right for photos at the time but I’ve since found a great collection of these online, most notably — and…