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and now for something a little different :) 🖥️ A Field of Blue @afieldofblue 🖥️ 🎥 Filmed on a Panasonic Lumix LX10 in a Nauticam housing, 4K, 30fps 🎥 🎧 Music : "Lux Aeterna" by György Ligeti 🎧 ⚙️Equipment: Panasonic Lumix LX10 in a Nauticam housing, Inon UCL-165 closeup lens, Backscatter MW...

Hello everyone, Here's a little clip of two Rough Box Crabs fighting away in east Bali, using their remarkable claws and various attacks, holds and projection techniques to try to overpower one another, in a form of crustacean jiu-jitsu! (and remember, the first rule of Fight Crab: you do not...

Hi everyone, Here's a little video where you can see both a juvenile (roughly 0.5 cm in size) and a slightly larger older Spiny Tiger Shrimps (Phyllognathia ceratophthalma) Adults grow up to about 2 cm in size but also have, as seen here, have a more complex shape, with many spikes growing out...

Hello all, There’s been a lot of spawning/nesting action in the past few weeks over in east Bali's Amed / Tulamben area, and here are a few shots of saddleback clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus, now also commonly known as Nemos...) egg patches, and showing their evolution over time ☺️ 🖥️ A...

Hello all, This is a very long shot, but if anyone coming to Bali in the near-future (holidays?) has a closeup/macro diopter (wet lens) to sell, do let me know. The 2nd hand-market is virtually inexistant here, and importing (new or used) is not an option because of current import...

Hello all, I'm hesitating between these two closeup diopters, to replace the current +12.5 / +6 stack that I am using. The CMC-1 is roughly a +15 diopter, whereas the recently released AOI UCL-90 Pro is an 18.5 diopter. Both are high quality, high magnification bright lenses with a compact...

Female Yellow Skeleton Shrimp (Caprella sp.) with Hatched Juveniles - Amed, Bali, Indonesia Commonly known as skeleton shrimp, caprellids are tiny marine crustaceans, known for their elongated, hairlike body structure, which allows them to camouflage very efficiently in the fine filaments...

Hello all, Here is some underwater macro footage shot on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10 (aka LX15 / LX9) in East Bali's Tulamben and Amed area, Indonesia. 🖥️ A Field of Blue /@afieldofblue 🖥️ 🎥 Filmed on a Panasonic Lumix LX10 in a Nauticam housing, 4K, 30fps 🎥 🎧 Music base: "Reflected Light"...

Orang-Utan crab (Achaeus japonicus) aping it in Tulamben, Bali - Indonesia - August 2023 . 🖥️ A Field of Blue / @afieldofblue 🖥️ 🎥 Filmed on an Panasonic Lumix LX10 4K/30fps, AOI UCL-09 lens, Backscatter MW4300 light 🎥 🎧 Music: "Weathered Stone" by Aphex Twin 🎧 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Tiny frogfish (size 1cm) being frogfish in Tulamben... ☺️ Frogfish (Antennariidae) Tulamben, Bali - Indonesia - Morning dives - July 2023 🔎 Spotter: Gede Ardha 🔎 🖥️ A Field of Blue https://www.youtube.com/@afieldofblue 🖥️ 🎥 Filmed on an Panasonic Lumix LX10 in a Nauticam housing 🎥 🎧 Music...

🐙 Mimic Octopus Amed, Bali, Indonesia – July-August 2023 🐙 The sandy slopes of Amed bay, in East Bali, are home to a healthy colony of mimic octopuses (Thaumoctopus mimicus, a species first observed in 1998, in Indonesia) along with other fascinating, and often rare, cephalopods. The mimic...

😴 Rhinopias frondosa / Weedy scorpionfish 😴 Tulamben, Bali - Indonesia - June 2023 🔎 Spotter: Gede Ardha 🔎 🖥️ A Field of Blue / @afieldofblue 🖥️ 🎥 Filmed on an Panasonic Lumix LX10 in a Nauticam housing 🎥 🎧 Music: Space Journeys by AntipodeanWriter 🎧 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Juvenile Harlequin Shrimp dancing at Kwanji, (Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia). This is a low-key lighting test of a juvenile harlequin shrimp ( (Hymenocera picta, size ≈ 5mm) spotted in Tulamben's Kwanji dive site. Shot on the Panasonic Lumix LX10 (LX15/LX9 in some locales), with a new Scubalamp...

Hello all, We’re a couple of dive instructors who recently hopped back to Indonesia from working in Palau, for what we hope will be long holidays (6 months max - we haven't had proper downtime in years...). We’ve dived in quite a few places in Indonesia as fun divers and also worked in Komodo...

Hello all, I’ve been playing around with the Panasonic Lumix LX10 (LX15 / LX9 in some locales) for underwater video, and finally got around to collecting some of these test shots in a reel. I’m sharing this test footage because there’s not much compact camera based underwater video footage...

Courting whitetip reef sharks (Triaenodon obesus) in Sandy Paradise, Palau, Micronesia

Hello all My (not so) faithful, yet favorite dive computer, a Scubapro Aladin Sport Matrix, has finally died out on me last July. It was 4 years old. A somewhat silly death in my opinion – one of the two frontal buttons coming loose (?!?!?) and the computer flooding from there during a dive, in...

. "The adult female manta (F171 Simone) seen dead in the video was first identified early December 2018. She was seen regularly around German Channel since cleaning and feeding, so it is unlikely she died from natural causes. A Japanese liveaboard was first on the scene early morning Jan 30, and...

Hello all, I'm trying to move my digital logbook from Scubapro's Logtrak software (TravelTRAK ,asd files) after my Aladin Sport Matrix computer died on me. I have exported a logbook with 1174 dives in Scubapro's .asd format (I also have the .xls which I converted to xml, but this doesn't have...