Robert's Ramblings

This beautiful creature keeps me coming back over and over looking for nudibranchs under our local jetties.

There is nothing really exotic about Ceratosoma brevicaudatum. They are common, easy to find and come in a range of sizes from the size of my fingernail to the length of my hand.

In fact it is the almost monotonous reliability of finding them that make them so awesome to me because finding them means capturing their images in so many different contexts.

This wonderful portrait presented itself to me under Edithburgh Jetty as the nudibranch lifted its head as if to 'smell the breeze' giving me a pose I'd never captured before.

I rest my case.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'Ceratosoma' 1/60s f/2.8 ISO100 50mm

In the past I had described photographing hermit crabs as ‘low hanging fruit’ but this guy was not so easy.

Clarrie's Hermit Crab (Pagurixus handrecki) here under Rapid Bay Jetty is tiny, about the size of my little fingernail and was marching furiously around the top of its own private little hill.

Despite the diminutive size it looked so busy and so full of pride that I nearly missed the moment when it reached the top before starting back down the other side.


Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Top of the Hill’, 1/100s f22 ISO400 100mm