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Pharaoh cuttlefish
(Sepiella inermis) or (Sepia pharaonis)
October is Cephalopod awareness month. October 10th is squid\cuttlefish day
-Bringing awareness to these fascinating creatures.
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more about these animals @ okinawanaturephotography.com/searching-for-cephalopods-by...
Underwater photography by Shawn M Miller
Nikon D500 /nauticam housing
60.0 mm f/2.8
Light & Motion Sola 1200, 3800 and Gobe 800 wide
Nudibranch - Ceratophyllidia sp -
Size: 30mm
Location: Jam dive, Okinawa
Depth: 30feet
Nikon d500 40.0 mm f/2.8 macro
Nauticam housing
Light&Motion sola 1200
ysd2 Sea&sea strobes x2
Pseudoceros leptostichus
Natures design: Confusing colors and patterns
Learn more about slugs
okinawanaturephotography.com/nudibranchs-colorful-sea-slu...
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola Nightsea and Sola 3800
Dinah's Goby
Lubricogobius dinah
living in a glass bottle
Location: Motobu, Okinawa
Learn More about this tiny fish
okinawanaturephotography.com/dinahs-goby-living-in-glass-...
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola Nightsea and Sola 3800
I saw this streaked fantail warbler (Cisticola juncidis) in the middle of the road. I took a few shots with the Iphone and then it flew away to safety.
Wide angle macro using the IPhone 8
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Mass coral spawning took place on Iheya Island this week
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Read more about this rare natural event @ okinawanaturephotography.com/the-shorelines-of-iheya-isla...
Canon EOS 80D
EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Octopus luteus -
Starry night Octopus, Okinawa, Japan
Jam Dive
Depth:25feet @ night
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Diving with friends at zanpa point-
We found the shark pit with one black tip reef shark, we saw some Nudibranches and a pigmy seahorse -
Nikon D90 25mm
Over under
Wajee point, Ie Island
-Entry point, some of the best diving in the World
Go Pro hero 4
Photography by Shawn M Miller
* Learn more about the nature of Okinawa -
Mass coral spawning on Iheya Island this week
- pink shores on Iheya Island caused by coral spawning
- Known as coral slicks
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Canon EOS 80D
EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Dinah's Goby
Lubricogobius dinah
living in a Murex pecten
Location: Motobu, Okinawa
I used th Nightsea to light to mouth of the bottle
Learn More about this tiny fish
okinawanaturephotography.com/dinahs-goby-living-in-glass-...
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola Nightsea and Sola 3800
Kuroiwa’s Ground Gecko is an endangered species found throughout Okinawa. This lizard is decreasing in numbers due to poaching, deforestation, and the threat of feral cats. The lizard is high valued in the illegal pet trade market and needs to protected.
The Kuroiwa's Ground Gecko was featured in National Geographic October 2017. Wildlife As Canon Sees It.
global.canon/en/ad/wild/pdf/wild201710.pdf#search=%27kuro...
Wide angle macro Photography by Shawn Miller.
Canon EOS 70D
Team Tokina 10-17mm
Light&Motion exploration lights
* Learn more about the nature of Okinawa -
Read more about this endangered reptile. okinawanaturephotography.com/kuroiwas-ground-gecko-threat...
Dinah's Goby
Lubricogobius dinah
living in a glass bottle (our waste)
Location: Motobu, Okinawa
I used th Nightsea to light to mouth of the bottle
Learn More about this tiny fish
okinawanaturephotography.com/dinahs-goby-living-in-glass-...
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola Nightsea and Sola 3800
Newly described Bobtail Squid
Euprymna brenneri
Location: Okinawa-Japan
Found: Kadena steps
Depth: 45feet at night
Size: 35mm
Are you using my Flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more about this squid @ www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0661-6
- dilated eyes due to using the Light&Motion sola 1200 red light
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200
# Know your nature with Shawn Miller
Hermit crab (Coenobita cavipes)
Shell: Turbo argyrostomus
Designated as a protected species
Okinawa, Japan
- Photographed using specialized blue lights
Canon 80D EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM /
Light&Motion nightsea
Bobtail Squid ( Euprymna parva )
Location: Okinawa-Japan
Found: Maeda point
Depth: 35feet at night
Size: 25mm
Acknowledgments-
Observations on mating in Mediterranean Sepiola and Sepietta species and review of mating behaviour in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)
sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13358-021-00232-0
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
1 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor - 1 ys-15 strobe
Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light
- - - Sola 1200
Amami Oshima frog
(Odorrans splendida)
Amami Island
Wildlife as Canon Sees it - August 2019 featured
Lean more about this endangered species @ okinawanaturephotography.com/searching-for-the-amami-oshi...
Canon EOS 80D
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
The event was a great success !
Below are some photographs of the Conservation Art Show
okinawanaturephotography.com/coral-conservation-art-show-...
Thank you all for your support!
# Know your nature with Shawn Miller
One of my strangest finds so far. Crabs with beach trash by Shawn Miller. I found a blueberry hermit crab tonight adapting with a lug nut cover. Found naturally using man made items.
Photographed using the Light&Motion Stella 2000 and iPhoneApple 8
Iphone photography by Shawn Miller
Okinawa, Japan
Read more about this Project
okinawanaturephotography.com/crabs-with-beach-trash-homes...
More on my favorite Light&Motion exploration light
okinawanaturephotography.com/the-light-motion-stella-2000...
#Know Your Nature With Shawn Miller
Apple iPhone 8
Okinawan Paintpot cuttlefish (Metasepia tullbergi) showing off its colors
Depth: 30feet at night
Jam, Okinawa
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Read more about this venomous cephalopod @ okinawanaturephotography.com/the-paintpot-cuttlefish-ceph...
Nikon d500]60mm macro
Nauticam housing
Sea&Sea strobes
Light&Motion Solo1200 &3800
The Okinawan woodpecker (Dendrocopos noguchii) was designated as Okinawa’s prefectural bird in 1972. This beautiful woodpecker is a living natural treasure of Japan. Populations of critically endangered species are declining rapidly
Learn more @ okinawanaturephotography.com/designated-flora-and-fauna-o...
Photography by Shawn M MIller
Canon EOS 80D
EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
Assessor randalli,
- Tsubame-tanabata-uo
Found: hovering upside down in submarine caves
Rare in okinawa- A challenging fish to photograph!
Location: Sunabe seawall, Okinawa
Nikon D500 60mm macro
nauticam housing
Sola 1200
S&Sysd2 strobes
Adaptive behavior- Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus )
Using a plastic cap as a protective home.
Found: Okuma Island, Okinawa
Note- crawling over varies pieces of plastic washed ashore
* All Coenobita species in Okinawa are recognized as a Living Natural Monument.
TEDX OIST talk on subject by Shawn Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
Read more about this project -
okinawanaturephotography.com/crabs-with-beach-trash-homes...
Beautiful marine hermit crabs of Okinawa
Calcinus minutus
Depth: 45feet on reef
Location: Maeda @ night
*Documentation photograph
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola 3800
# Know your nature with Shawn Miller
Okinawan Paintpot cuttlefish (Metasepia tullbergi) showing off its colors
Depth: 30feet at night
Jam, Okinawa
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
www.patreon.com/MakeTheSwitch4Nature
Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Read more about this venomous cephalopod @ okinawanaturephotography.com/the-paintpot-cuttlefish-ceph...
Nikon d500]60mm macro
Nauticam housing
Sea&Sea strobes
Light&Motion Solo1200 &3800
Pharaoh cuttlefish
(Sepiella inermis) or Sepia pharaonis)
October is Cephalopod awareness month. October 10th is squid\cuttlefish day
-Bringing awareness to these fascinating creatures.
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
www.patreon.com/MakeTheSwitch4Nature
Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more about these animals @ okinawanaturephotography.com/searching-for-cephalopods-by...
Underwater photography by Shawn M Miller
Nikon D500 /nauticam housing
60.0 mm f/2.8
Light & Motion Sola 1200, 3800 and Gobe 800 wide
Sea and sea strobes
The Beautiful Star Sand beaches on Okinawa
- Enjoy the challenge of finding these beautiful stars washed ashore yourself!
These star shaped objects are the Exoskeleton better know as tests of foraminifera (Baculogypsina sphaerulata)
They are found washed ashore on most beaches of the Ryukyu Islands
A Popular tourist atraction on Iriomote Island
Photographed on a Ryukyu plate
Canon EOS 70D
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Princly cone snail -
Conus aulicus
Location: Kin, Okinawa
- Muck dive, bad vis
Depth: 15feet
Learn more about the hazardous marine life of Okinawa
okinawanaturephotography.com/hazardous-marine-life-in-oki...
Nikon D500 40mm macro
Nauticam housing
Sea&Seaysd2 x2
Sola 1200
Bobtail squid- Euprymna parva
Location: Okinawa-Japan
Found: Kin Bay
Depth: 35feet at night
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
www.patreon.com/MakeTheSwitch4Nature
Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
1 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor - 1 ys-15 strobe
Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light
- - - Sola red 1200
Freckled Hawkfish
(Paracirrhites forsteri)
Location: Okinawa-Japan
Found: Maeda point
Depth: 35feet at night
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
1 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor - 1 ys-15 strobe
Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light
- - - Sola 1200
Longsnout flathead
Thysanophrys chitonae
Location" Maeda point
Depth: 25feet
The crocodile fish is an ambush predator. Their specialized eyes have iris lappets, These branching like projections help break up the dark pupil of the predatory fish. A true master of camouflage.
Learn more @ okinawanaturephotography.com
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola 3800
Mass coral spawning took place on Iheya Island this week
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
www.patreon.com/MakeTheSwitch4Nature
Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Ocean pollution - Look close at the pieces of plastic mixing in the coral slick.
Read more about this rare natural event @ okinawanaturephotography.com/the-shorelines-of-iheya-isla...
Canon EOS 80D
EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Kuroiwa’s Ground Gecko is an endangered species found throughout Okinawa. This lizard is decreasing in numbers due to poaching, deforestation, and the threat of feral cats. The lizard is high valued in the illegal pet trade market and needs to protected.
Its important to pay attention to animals crossing the road during the night!
The Kuroiwa's Ground Gecko was featured in National Geographic October 2017. Wildlife As Canon Sees It.
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider making a contribution. Help Me Make The Difference
www.patreon.com/MakeTheSwitch4Nature
Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
global.canon/en/ad/wild/pdf/wild201710.pdf#search=%27kuro...
Wide angle macro Photography by Shawn Miller.
Canon EOS 80D
Team Tokina 10-17mm
Light&Motion exploration lights
* Learn more about the nature of Okinawa -
Read more about this endangered reptile. okinawanaturephotography.com/kuroiwas-ground-gecko-threat...
A largrge Praying mantis laying her egg casing. The egg casing is know as the ootheca.
The first photograph is composed with the sky and trees in the background is. I found it pleasing but comfortably distracting ar t the same time. The second scene I decided to photograph the praying mantis form the other side and Isolate the insect with a black background.
Which Photograph do you prefer?
Nagahama Okinawa
Canon EOS 80D
EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Chromodoris hintuanensis Gosliner & Behrens, 1998
According to Robert Bolland this is a very rare species found here. Check out his site for more information regarding this species. rfbolland.com/okislugs/chrohint.html. I have only found two, hopefully we can find more this season.
Location: Kin bay
Depth: 5feet / night dive
Slug size: 25mm
Acording to Dr Sami Merilaita, these eyespots may be beneficial underwater. One idea is that they could possibly divert predator attacks by misdirecting the predator to a less vulnerable part of the prey’s body. For example, Instead of feeding on the rhinophores or gills - it bites the fake eye which might have toxins.
More info about fake eyes www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141112-six-ways-animals-use-fak...
Learn more @ okinawanaturephotography.com
Equipment: Nikon D500 60.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola 3800
Ishikawa's frog (Odorrana ishikawae)
-The rare blue and green morph form. One of the rarest frogs of the world.
Read more about this endangered frog
okinawanaturephotography.com/facing-extinction-ishikawas-...
Iphone 8 photography by Shawn Miller
Light&Motion Stella 2000
Wildlife as Canon Sees it - August 2019 featured. The Amami Oshima frog featured. Conservation Photography by Shawn M Miller
Time to get Famillerized with fluorescence!
This is the setup I will be using tonight around the neighborhood.
okinawanaturephotography.com/light-painting-with-the-nigh...
Canon 70d 60mm macro
Light&Motion Nightsea x2 and Gobe nightsea
Sea&Sea bracket and loc -line arms
- Similar setup results with 100macro
www.flickr.com/photos/okinawaphotos/26130677758/in/datepo...
Tom Smiths Nudibranch-
Ardeodoris tomsmithi -Nudibranchs of Okinawa
Depth: 35feet
Location: Tengan, Kin bay
*Documentation photograph
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor -
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola 3800
# Know your nature with Shawn Miller
Japanese name: Hime habu " Princess habu "
A thick bodied pit viper -
Found on Okinawa
Ovophis okinavensis (BOULENGER, 1892)
Location: Kunigami, okinawa
Size: 220mm
Nikon D7000
Tokina 10.0-17.0 mm f/3.5-4.5
Light&Motion exploration lights
January 5th is National bird day 2019.
The Okinawa Rail is endemic to Northern Okinawa.
Populations are drastically declining.
Learn more about this critically endangered bird
okinawanaturephotography.com/slow-down-lets-protect-the-o...
Odorrana amamiensis (Amami Tip-nosed Frog)
Amami Island
Canon EOS 80D
EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
Meet Aka -
Adaptive behavior
- Blueberry hermit crab (Coenobita purpureus )
TEDX OIST talk on subject by Shawn Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
Aka is using a red plastic cap from a cassette gas tank as a temporary home. Cassette gas tanks are often used for cooking with a portable stove on local beaches. The caps are often left as trash on our beautiful shorelines.
Location: Yomitan, Okinawa
* All Coenobita species in Okinawa are recognized as a Living Natural Monument.
Phys org phys.org/news/2024-01-tropical-coasts-hermit-crabs-homes....
BBC NEWS www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68071695
Featured in Scientific publications, The plastic homes of hermit crabs in the Anthropocene
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723075885
Let's keep our beaches clean!
Featured Oceans day 2019 - Stella Mccartney www.stellamccartney.com/experience/jp/capturing-the-impac...
The Architecture of Waste: Design for a Circular Economy
Fig 6.4 books.google.co.jp/books?id=DpEBEAAAQBAJ&pg=SA6-PA1&a...
Hidden Pathways to Extinction
Everything is connected pg 35
books.google.co.jp/books?id=x1xwEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&...
www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/plastic-...
Read more about this project -
okinawanaturephotography.com/crabs-with-beach-trash-homes...
My series has been featured on-
www.businessinsider.com/hermit-crabs-using-trash-as-homes... www.nationalgeographic.nl/galerij/10x-krabben-in-huisjes-...
petapixel.com/2016/08/30/photos-hermit-crabs-beach-trash-...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-trash-homes-of-hermit-c...
www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/crabs-are-reso...
www.thedodo.com/hermit-crabs-trash-shells-2001062931.html
www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/oceans-so-polluted-crabs...
www.plethorist.com/crabs-adapt-and-uses-plastic-caps-as-h...
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/science/crabs-living...
www.hypedojo.com/you-wont-believe-what-these-hermit-crabs...
Canon 70d 60mm macro
1 x yn560strobe with soft box
1 Light & Motion GoBe focusing light
Coral Fluorescence
Location" Maeda point
Depth: 25feet @ night
Learn more @ okinawanaturephotography.com
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe with Nightsea filters
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola Nightsea
Murex shell: Vexilla vexillum
Ectoparasitic muricid of echinoids
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Documentation photograph
Learn more
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
1 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
- -custom diffusor - 1 ys-15 strobe
Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light
- - - Sola 1200
Sometimes a simple pop-up flash can make magic-
Tedx OIST www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
Haebaru Okinawa-Japan
Nikon D7000 Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 lens/on camera flash
Sea turtle art show and fundraiser for Sea turtle conservation- August 12th 2017
Location: Okinawa, Japan -Place: Okinawa brewing company (OBC)
A collaboration with local artists
One of my Images that contributed to a good cause
- Donations went to the Olive Ridley Project (Sea Turtle Conservation)
The Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) is listed as endangered by the IUCN red list of threatened species.
Photography by Shawn M Miller
Location: Toiletbowl
Okinawa, Japan
okinawanaturephotography.com/sea-turtle-art-show-okinawa-...
Canon 70d tokina 10-17mm
Ikelite housing x2strobes
light&Motion sola modeling light
Hypselodoris maridadilus
learn more about the beautiful slugs of Okinawa @ okinawanaturephotography.com/nudibranchs-colorful-sea-slu...
Equipment :Nikon D500 40mm macro
Nauticam Underwater housing
2XSea&Seastrobes
Light&Motion Sola 1200
New species alert
Kodama jujutsu
pygmy squid of Okinawa
Squid size: 12mm
Location" Maeda point
Depth: 25feet @night
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-023-04305-1
Are you using my flickr photos as a reference guide to help identify your finds? If so please consider contributing. Help Me Make The Difference
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Mission: To Protect & Preserve The Wildlife of The Ryukyu Islands for Further Generations
Learn more about this tiny squid okinawanaturephotography.com/pygmy-squids-and-hydroid-eat...
Equipment: Nikon D500 40.0 mm f/2.8
Nauticam underwater housing
2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobe
Light&Motion
- - - Sola red light 1200 and Sola 3800