Realm of the Pygmy Seahorse

Staff · Issue 2, Oct/Nov 2001 · pp. 40–42

Products mentioned: Realm of the Pygmy Seahorse (book)

Those of us who were lucky enough to be included on the distribution list of Constantinos’ frequent e-mail ‘newsletters’ sent from Kungkungan Bay Resort while he was photographing for his book will feel that we have been waiting a very long time to see the final product - ‘Realm of the Pygmy Seahorse’. Well, the book is finally here and the wait has most definitely been worthwhile. This is an outstanding book, which will appeal to non-diving coral reef admirers, as well as to divers and underwater photographers. I read it at a single sitting, then went back to feast some more on the beautiful images. Constantinos set out to document the immensely rich eco-system in the Lembeh Strait in Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia and in the course of 5 months, he completed 320 dives and took 25,000 slides, of which 280 are beautifully reproduced in the book. Lembeh Strait is in many ways far removed fro…