The search for Red Blenny (or climatic change or insufficient data?)

Paul Kay · Issue 12, Apr/May 2003 · pp. 34–37

Products mentioned: Nikon F100, Subal housing, Nikonos SB105 strobe, Nikon 28-105 AF Nikkor, 60 AF Micro-Nikkor, Fuji Provia, Fuji Velvia, Nikon F60, Nikon F801, SB103 strobe

34 As underwater photographers we all need to be keen observers of the undersea and its natural history, if for no other reason than trying to identify good subject matter. And being in the marine environment, this more often than not means watching its inhabitants and shooting natural history photographs. Now I am not a marine biologist (despite having been described as such in various diving magazines), and would much rather classify myself as a marine naturalist. In this role I am the equal of anyone else who dives, as I can make observations of the species I encounter and their behaviour firsthand, and, providing I try to understand what I am seeing, am quite able to see things which are currently unrecorded (or at least impossible to find any existent records of). This was brought home to me when I got a roll of film back from Glasson Rock of Inish MÙr in the Aran Islands, Galway Ba…