Looking East toward Prescott, AZ and Mingus Mountain and the Bradshaws. From near Thumb Butte. #prescottaz #bradshawmts #sunrise #hometown #townlights

2 cats on a water wheel in Cordoba. The caliphs built the wheel to irrigate their palace. Queen Isabella found the sound irritating and had it removed. This is a modern reconstruction, clearly a cat tree. A 3rd cat is out of the image to the left. @bskyofcats.bsky.social

A cat sits on a shelf in the window of a florist’s shop in Cordoba Spain. When I stopped to make a photo, more people stopped to make photos of their own. catpics99.bsky.social

A male Rubberlip Seaperch guards his harem. The male, above the silver females, takes on black coloration during mating season, while he guards females until he can fertilize their eggs. From Dec 2003, at Cat Rock off Anacapa. Nikon F5, Subal housing, ,Sea & Sea YS-120 strobes,Kodak E100VS. 🦑

Spanish shawl nudibranch, with red rhinophores, orange cerrata, and purple oral tentacles. Rhinophores are like an inside-out nose. Eyespots appear below the rhinophores. When your entire body is flexible you can make lots of faces. Shot with film at Anacapa in 2003. 🦑

Painted Greenling, at Underwater Island just south of Anacapa Island. I shot this with Fuji Velvia film with a Nikon F5 and dual strobes in January of 2003, from the dive boat Spectre. 🦑 #ChannelIslands #UnderwaterPhotography #PaintedGreenling #KelpForest

A two-spotted octopus at the "Fallen Arch" off Santa Rosa in the California Channel Islands. 🦑🐙 #underwaterphotography #californiachannelislands #scuba

A hairy frog fish at Anilao. Shot with a Nikon D850 and a 60mm lens, Ikelite 160 and Mini Flash 2 strobes. #frogfish #hairyfrogfish #underwaterphotography #anilao #scuba #nikon 🦑

A hairy frog fish at Anilao. Shot with a Nikon D850 and a 60mm lens, Ikelite 160 and Mini Flash 2 strobes. #frogfish #hairyfrogfish #underwaterphotography #anilao #scuba #nikon

Octopus at Refugio Beach, in April 2010. I amnot sure what kind of octopus this was; maybe Octopus rubescens? Made with a very cantankerous Nikon P5100 with a Sea & Sea YS90 strobe. I was relieved when thr housing finally flooded. #refugiostatebeach #octopus #underwaterphotography #scubadiving 🦑

Religion is the opium of the people. Sports is the fentanyl of the people.

White abalone, at Channels on the south side of Anacapa, from the dive boat Spectre in Mach 2002. White abalone are a listed endangered species. These days, this area is a desert. It's outside the no-take zone of the marine sanctuary. #channelislands #filmphotography #scubadiving #uwphotography 🦑

Krill amid macrocystis kelp, at Wycoff Ledge off San Miguel Island, in the California Channel Islands.Shot with a Nikon F5, 20mm lens, Subal Housing, Kodak E100VS film. #filmphotography #underwaterphoto #krill #kelp #nikonf5 #channelislands #scubadiving 🦑

"red sky at morning, sailors take warning" but our forecast here in Prescott Arizona is for cooler days, warmer nights, and none of the snow or rain we need.

I'm diving in a school of krill at Wycoff Ledge off San Miguel Island in the California Channel islands, in Sept 2001. The dots are actually mysid shrimp, but a marine biologist acquaintance assured me that they were the same as krill. #scubadiving 🦑 #filmphotography #channelislands

One of my dive buddies said that this flirtatious young sea lion looked just like Betty Boop. I photographed her in 2001 off Sutil Island, next to Santa Barbara Island in the California Channel Islands, with Kodak E100VS film in a Nikon F5. #underwaterphoto 🦑 #filmphotography #sealion

An octopus at Sandstone, on the East end of Santa Cruz Island in the California Channel Islands. Shot in 2000 with a Nikon 5 in a Subal housing and Fuji Velvia film. #scubadiving #underwaterphoto #filmphotography #octopus #MarineLife 🦑🐙 #santacruzisland #channelislandsnationalpark

A Norris's Topsnail, off the East end of Santa Cruz Island. These guys climb up kelp plants, feeding off the life that lives on them, and drop off when they reach the top. Shot with film in October of 2000. 🦑 #MarineLife #ChannelIslands #uwphoto #scuba

A pair of barnacles amidst a clump of Corynactis anemones. Both barnacles are feeding, but just one had its feeding apparatus extended at the instant the shutter opened. 🦑#nikonf5 #subal #filmphotography #channelislandsnationalpark #barnacle #underwaterphotography #scuba #MarineLife

A Cabezon on the reef at Naples, a seamount off the Gaviota Coast of California. Cabezon are large sculpins. #naplesseamount #gaviotacoast #scubadiving #kelpforest #cabezon ##addOcean

A harbor seal, at Tajiguas on the Gaviota Coast

A pair of sculpins, near Willows anchorage on the south side of Santa Cruz Island, California Channel Islands. #scuba #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #uwphoto #marinelife #sculpin #californiachannelislands #channelislands