From the depths…

August 2006

Which sea slug?

As mentioned in the last post, I tried to make some identifications of the nudibranchs in included in the video using Debelius’ book (primarily). One species I couldn’t find in there was the first shown in the video. The identification was made (tentatively) from a small photo in Allen and Steene.

I posted a message to the marvellous Sea Slug Forum to double check the identification as _Chromodoris geometrica_…

Posted to freeflow on Aug 23 · Continue reading…

Indonesia nudibranchs

Just uploaded, a short video showing the best of the nudibranch footage I shot at Raja Ampat and Wakatobi.

Glossodoris_stellatus
Glossodoris stellatus

Identifications were made using Debelius and Allen and Steene – they might well be wrong – if so, please let me know! Some of the Chromodoris species are hard to tell apart…

Posted to freeflow on Aug 19 · Continue reading…

Indonesia nudibranchs

This video shows a collection of nudibranchs filmed on trips to Raja Ampat and Wakatobi in 2005 and 2006. None of the species are particularly rare, so far as I know. Identifications are my own (with the help of Bill Rudman over at the Sea Slug Forum to confirm the first subject).

Posted to videos on Aug 19 · Continue reading…

About this site (in pictures)

I was re-reading the “About” post for this site and figured it was really pretty dull. Let’s try again, this time using pictures…

The site is more about this:

Tagging along than this:

Posted to freeflow on Aug 14 · Continue reading…

Red Sea in September

We’re off back to the Red Sea in September. We’ve booked a 7-day trip on the Hurricane through Tony Backhurst. The itinerary is called Simply the Best – a bit cheesy-sounding, but on paper it certainly looks good…

Posted to freeflow on Aug 13 · Continue reading…

Little Big Disk

When I first started editing video last year, I started out borrowing Alice’s Mac Powerbook 12”. We bought a copy of Final Cut Express and started reading.

The need for some sort of external hard drive quickly became apparent. Having read the dire warnings against using bus-powered drives, we started out with a LaCie 200GB d2 drive. This unit came with an external power supply and has performed flawlessly.

Posted to freeflow on Aug 01 · Continue reading…