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  • Three lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) feed on plankton at night.
    Seahorse Pond.jpg
  • Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) rush up river to spawn before they die. Image made on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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  • Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) mating is a brutal affair. The male grips the female by the pectoral fin and tries to pin her to the bottom so he can insert his clasper in her cloaca for copulation.
    Mating Nurse Sharks.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hides among mangrove trees in The Bahamas.
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  • Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) are predators high on the food chain. Their presence in large numbers is a key indicator of a healthy ecosystem. *Note: This image is only for sale for Rights Managed or as a limited edition print. See my "Limited Editions" under the PRINTS tab for more information or send me an email for a quote.
    Caribbean Reef Sharks
  • A lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris), only six months old, hunting in the mangrove creek she calls home at dusk in The Bahamas.
    Pup
  • An almost blind Bahamas Cave Fish (Lucifuga) survives just fine in the darkness of deep blue hole.
    Bahamas Cave Fish.jpg
  • A swimmer with an orange life preserver excites microscopic dinoflagellates into producing bioluminescence. The Bio Bay near Parguera, Puerto Rico, is one of only five in the world and is a major tourist attraction. When the double hurricanes hit in 2017 two of Puerto Rico's three Bio Bays went dark, just like the cities, hurting tourism and jobs for months, if not years to come.
    Bio Bay.jpg
  • A green sea turtle tangled in fishing line and drown. <br />
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This green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was found tangled in fishing line and a fishing hook off Eleuthera in The Bahamas. When the people who found her told me about it I knew I had to go back and remove the line so it didn't claim any more victims.
    Drowned Turtle.jpg
  • A Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) photographed in a cenote in Ciénaga de Zapata National Park. Cuban crocodiles and American crocodiles are interbreeding and creating hybrid offspring that threaten the survival of the Cuban species, which is down to only 4,000 individuals and listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
    Critically Endangered Cuban Crocodile
  • Seafans and other coral on a reef in The Bahamas. There are still patches of healthy reefs, but our decisions will determine their future. *Note: This image is only for sale for Rights Managed or as a limited edition print. See my "Limited Editions" under the PRINTS tab for more information or send me an email for a quote.
    Caribbean Reef
  • A cave shrimp consumes a crab. In this blue hole on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas when a food source drops to the bottom a shrimp will quickly claim it's prize and rise up off the bottom to avoid competition.
    Shrimp Feast
  • The Wonderpus photogenicus was only described in 2006 despite living in shallow, coastal waters in the adult stage. This larval stage wonderpus will float with the currents as plankton and uses clear skin as camouflage.
    Photogenicus.jpg
  • In 2011 The Bahamas was declared a shark sanctuary, banning the killing of sharks. The ban would not have happened if sharks didn't attract tourist revenue. This Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) was killed despite the ban in 2013. The law and the perception of sharks has a gap that is slowly being filled as more local Bahamians reap the rewards of shark tourism.
    Fear Killed The Shark
  • Juvenile rigid shrimpfish (Centriscus scutatus) are camouflaged to look like pieces of drifting seagrass blades.
    Juvenile Rigid Shrimpfish
  • Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) form a school, known as a squad, off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    Squid Squad.jpg
  • A Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) eyes a potential fish meal near the surface in the black of night.
    Predator
  • Bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) are the first shark species discovered to be omnivorous. They ingest copious amounts of seagrass while feeding on crabs and are able to retain nutrients from the plants. Sharks in captivity that only had access to seagrass actually gained weight.
    Bonnethead Shark.jpg
  • Abstract close up of artichoke coral mouth
    Artichoke Coral
  • A critically endangered Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) in a small cenote in Zapata, Cuba. As ocean's rise due to climate change American crocodiles' territory in Cuba is expanding and that of the swamp-living Cuban crocodile is shrinking. The two species are coming into contact more frequently and interbreeding and hybrid species are common. With only about 4000 individual Cuban crocs left in small parts of Cuba, it is likely the Cuban crocodile will go extinct soon, being absorbed by the American crocodile, without ongoing human intervention.
    Habitat
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the marshland off the east coast of the United States.
    Marshland
  • A cicada emerges from their exoskeleton at night in The Bahamas.
    Emerging Cicada
  • A pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) underwater off Sri Lanka.
    Blue Whale
  • A Critically Endangered hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swims through a coral reef crevasse. Hawksbills eat coral sponges and, therefore, depend on healthy reefs for their survival. In this area known as the Gardens of the Queen in Cuba, is a well-protected Marine Sanctuary and one of the last places in the Caribbean to have healthy reefs.
    Reef Silhouette
  • A sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) descends into the inky depths off Sri Lanka, her tail waving goodbye.
    Goodbye
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