🤿 A few notable nudibranchs from a recent dive 💙🤌 #nudibranchs #seaslug #underwaterphotography #diving #ocean #marinelife

Fantastic new GCSE available for those in England, Wales & NI! Hopefully it may inspire Scotland to introduce a similar equivalent? I would have taken this if it would have been an option back in the day! #naturalhistory #gcse #education #nature #wildlife www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Feel like I’m starting to build up a rapport with the Shannies I visit regularly at a particular spot! Great little characters! #shanny #fish #underwaterphotography #freediving #saltwaterlife #marinelife

🤿 Another session the other week back at Boddam! 📸 I think that’s probably as far as I can take that split shot on my wee compact of the lighthouse & kelp, but really like it! 🪼 Lots of jellyfish reflections & a snap of my work colleague too 😎 #underwaterphotography #marinelife

🦈 A couple of the usual eye roll sections on this page, fortunately my quote is more or less intact 😅 Regardless, it’s exciting news and great to see this footage of a great white in the central Mediterranean! www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

🦈 Fantastic rare footage released this #WorldOceansDay of a Great White in the Central Mediterranean! #greatwhiteshark #shark www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

🤿 💧 TAKE A DIVE WITH ME THIS WORLD OCEANS DAY! Happy #WorldOceansDay 2026! Here’s just a small snippet from below the surface of the Moray Firth! #underwater #freediving #snorkelling #divediscoverdefend #saltwaterlife #marinelife #morayfirth #scotland

🤿 A rather lovely Facelina auriculata #nudibranch I was pleased to spot this one on a deeper section of kelp whilst #freediving the other week, it’s quite challenging to try & get a good snap of something only a few cm’s long whilst apnea diving though! #seaslug #underwaterphotography #marinelife

🪼My best ever snap of a #SeaGooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus)! These comb jellies are pretty small, getting to about the size of a marble! The iridescence is caused by the refraction of light through rows of tiny hair-like cilia (called “combs”) cont… #underwaterphotography #freediving 🌊 🤿

🤿 On the 24th & 25th May conditions in the Moray Firth were PHENOMENAL! Incredibly calm & the visibility was excellent! 📷 Loved capturing the views amongst the kelp forests & looking down to see decent sized Saithe/Coley! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #scotland

Goblin mode activated!

🦁 Corker today Villa! What a way to end the season 😅 #AVFC #UTV

🦁 💜🩵 Sat in the airport mentally digesting the last few days! A quick visit home ended up coinciding with Villa playing the Europa League Final, watched the game in a Baggies pub with my Dad - who incidentally has no interest in football, however an extremely keen interest in beer 🍻.. #avfc

I’m not sure i’ve ever been so nervous for a game!!!! 🦁 ⚽️ #UTV

Ocean Eyes ~ Probably one of the best shots I have taken…. a Caribbean Reef Shark eye! I had completed overlooked this image, because I tend to want to capture the entire shark in the frame, but now I realise what I missed - absolutely mesmerising! #shark #sharkphotography #underwater #diving 🌊🤿

Very much enjoyed watching and photographing the Common and Sandwich Terns yesterday! #seabirdsunday #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

👀 Confession time! 🤿 Numerous dives and many encounters with Sea Hares….. and yet it was only earlier this month that I noticed their fantastic wee eyeballs!!!!!! No idea how i missed them before to be honest! #seahare #diving #underwater #saltwaterlife #marinelife

Still buzzing from that win last night!!!! 🦁 ⚽️ #UTV #VILLA 💜🩵

🤿 A dip at Boddam Lighthouse during golden hour, on a beautifully calm evening in mid April. 🪼 The first moon jellies were arriving and the kelp revealed a lovely wee Montagu’s seasnail (yes it’s a fish) too! #freediving #snorkelling #underwater #saltwaterlife #scotland #marinelife

💙 I’ve been out & about a lot lately, and have a backlog of images to share of both underwater life & life on land too! However, i’ll start with something in between…. Boddam Lighthouse during golden hour, taken when i was bobbing about at the surface on a beautifully calm evening in mid April. 🌊

🤿 Favourite time of year along the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 coast! The sea thrift is blooming along the shore, below the surface the kelp has new golden growth and the critters are active, guaranteeing some unique interactions! 💧 #freediving #snorkelling #underwater

🎂 Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! Thank you for everything 🙏 #happybirthday #sirdavidattenborough #inspiration #legend #nature

Wooooooowwwww! VILLLAAAAA WHAT A MATCH! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE ENERGY AND INTENSITY! ISTANBUL HERE WE COME!!!!! ⚽️ 🦁 #UTV

👍 I was delighted to be invited along to talk to the 3rd Cults Brownies last week, as part of their “animal helper” badge! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We had a good chat about endangered Scottish Species and how we can take action to support conservation efforts! #outreach #education #brownies #conservation #environment

🌺 🌕 Flower Moon, catching up a bit here but I was pleased to capture the fifth full moon of the year! #moon #moonphotography #flowermoon #nightsky #fullmoon

“As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind. Once in the air, they have a climate impact that could affect us all…” edition.cnn.com/2026/05/04/c...

🏔️ 🥃 So much fun hitting the hills and having a great time with friends these last few days! That’s Ben Lui and Beinn a'Chlèibh bagged (number 167 & 168 Munro’s for me), in absolutely INCREDIBLE conditions again! @walkhighlands.co.uk #munros #munrobagging #hillwalking #whisky #scotland

“I am the Walrus”, yes Magnus, you are indeed! Absolutely fascinating to observe and photograph this Arctic visitor on his tour of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #walrus #atlanticwalrus #magnus #wildlifephotography #nature #marinelife #scotland

Congratulations! Thanks for your effort in protecting the deep. Greenpeace recently published an article to call for Congress not funding deep sea mining speculation. Could you please repost it to make more aware of the damage of sea mining? www.greenpeace.org/usa/no-deman...

📣 Absolutely delighted to announce that our paper “Monitoring a Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) Egg-Laying Site in Loch Melfort, Scotland, by a Community Science Group” has today been published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine & F.W. Ecosystems! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Waaahhhhh!!!! Villa!!!! Absolutely wild final 10 minutes flipping heck 🦁 🙌 #UTV 💜💙

Good news! #Oyster reintroduction - restoration, shoreline stabilisation and carbon capture www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤿 Portknockie earlier this week, the visibility wasn’t bad at all! Lovely to see the new kelp growth looking golden in the sun! 🦞 Other highlights included a chilled out lobster and a well camouflaged sea scorpion. #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #scotlandunderwater

60% of species had an above average year in the 2025 @ukbms.bsky.social results. Purple Emperor (📷 @iainhleach.bsky.social) & Black Hairstreak both had their 2nd best years on record. 🎉

✊ 🦁 Yes Villa! Solid win again tonight, semi’s here we come! ⚽️

🌊 Thank you to the organisers and year 2 students taking the Marine Environments course at SRUC for inviting me along to give a guest lecture today! #marinepollution #litter #environment #flapperskate #eggcases

🤿 The visibility is starting to improve! There’s still a fair bit of swell kicking around BUT i found a few protected gullies yesterday! 📸 Here are a few of my favourites! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #saltwaterlife #scottishseas 🌊

Lovely to see some of the Puffins back on the cliffs! #puffin #seabird #bird #nature #wildlife #scotland @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social (because i know you like these too!)

I’ve been struggling to find words for this since I saw it this morning. I still can’t. I just get a lump in my throat.

Saddened to hear of the passing of legendary wildlife cameraman Doug Allan. I met him a couple of times when working at Macduff Aquarium, he was a very talented and inspiring individual, my condolences to his family and friends.

Recent observations of two young-of-the-year great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Elasmobranchii, Lamniformes, Lamnidae), in the Eastern Adriatic Sea 🦈 #greatwhiteshark #research #marinelife aiep.pensoft.net/article/1885...

🤿 A smash and grab snorkel yesterday in between swell forecasts! Got in at the south side of Boddam lighthouse. 📸 Shannies galore!!! Including the biggest boldest one I have ever seen lying out on a rocky ledge! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #shanny #marinelife

Great hammerhead sharks outperform the curve journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🩷🌕 Pink Moon (well almost - this was my back-up shot from the night before the full moon - glad i took it as we had full cloud cover last night!!) Pretty close anyways for the fourth full moon of the year! #moon #moonphotography #pinkmoon #almost #fullmoon

“Protection means nothing if these hulking industrial trawlers are allowed to devastate crucially important areas….” 🐟 🌊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Oysters #Japan #oceantemperature "The region’s oysters – a popular Japanese dish and the lifeblood of fisheries in Hiroshima – are dying en masse, with experts blaming a combination of rising sea temperatures and, last year, a brutally hot summer..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤿 A very enjoyable dip on Friday with @cathgem2000.bsky.social & Lynne from Moray Ocean Community 🌊 A sizeable swell coming in but thankfully the tidal pools were bursting with life! - Spiny Squat Lobster - Sea Hare - Common Prawn #snorkelling #tidalpool #underwaterphotography #scotlandunderwater

24 new deep-sea species found including a rare new branch of life www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

🌊 Wowo! What a wave!! Looks absolute perfection… wave of the season at Mullaghmore! #surf #wave #bigwavesurfing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...