2015 was a good year, photography and otherwise. But since this is a photo blog, I'm just going to recap on the 12 photographic highlights of the year, by month. Overall, it was a year of exploration, of the new place we now call home, Sydney, and its surrounds. It was a year of learning …
Diving in Fiji, Clown Fish Edition
The past couple of years, we've dove in Hawaii and the Caribbean, and consequently have missed seeing the colorful clown anemone fish. Happily, we had an abundance of them in Fiji, and a few different species (and in different types of anemones) at that! There's obviously tons of other colorful fish besides these cute clown …
Diving the Somosomo Strait, Fiji
Except for one day, we spent the rest of our mornings in Fiji underwater. With over 2300 species of fish and nearly 400 species of corals, every dive was an exciting one. Before this trip, I wasn't really a fan of drift diving, because I preferred the opportunity to stick myself in one spot and …
Sunsets in Taveuni, Fiji
We got lucky with the weather. It had been raining steadily the few days before we arrived, and was pretty wet the Saturday afternoon we landed. But the clouds steadily cleared up such that by Sunday evening, patches of blue sky could be seen overhead.
Lavena Coastal Walk, Fiji
We've just come back from a phenomenal week in Taveuni, Fiji with a couple old friends. What a trip! I'd picked Taveuni, out of the 300 Fijian islands, because of its fame as the 'soft coral capital of the world' (Jacques Cousteau). What we didn't realize - and reveled in - is that Taveuni, also …