ROCKPOOL REVELATIONS

These images are my favourite subjects to photograph, and some of the most difficult due to their tiny sizes and reflections off the water surface. The images include various starfish, fish, crabs, sea anemones and sea slugs. Many have appeared in my exhibition 'ROCKPOOL REVELATIONS'.

Dahlia anemone in rockpool

Greenleaf worms on mussel bed

Snakelocks anemones

Little brittlestars

A rockpool at Oxwich

Common blenny or Shanny

Snakelocks anemones and sponge

A gathering of common Starfish under boulder

Common starfish

Closed Dahlia anemone

Feather star ANTEDON BIFIDA

Blue-rayed limpets on kelp

A sponge CIOCALYPTA PENICILLUS

Golf ball sponge TETHYA AURANTIUM

Hairy crab PILUMNUS HIRTELLUS

Sponge HEMIMYCALE COLUMELLA

Leach's spider crab INACHUS PHALANGIUM

Long-legged spider crab MACROPODIA ROSTRATA

Overhang community

Sea hare APLYSIA PUNCTATA

Sea hare egg masses on seaweed

A sponge SUBERITES FICUS

Under boulder community

Key-hole Limpet DIODORA GRAECA

Snake pipefish

DAHLIA ANEMONE

ELEGANT ANEMONE

BREADCRUMB SPONGE

IRISH MOSS OR CARRAGHEEN

EDIBLE SEA URCHIN

COMMON STARFISH

COMPASS JELLYFISH

CUSHION STAR

DOG WHELK

EDIBLE CRAB

FALSE IRISH MOSS

TUBES OF HONEYCOMB WORM

SEA SLUG Janolus cristatus

KELP

KNOTTED OR EGG WRACK

LIMPETS

RAZOR SHELLS

MANED SEAHORSE

SEA SLUG Aeolidiella alderi

SHANNY AND EGGS

SHORE URCHIN IN ROCKPOOL

SHORE URCHIN ON SERRATED WRACK

SNAKELOCKS ANEMONE

SPINY STARFISH

SPIRAL WRACK

STRAWBERRY ANEMONE

TOMPOT BLENNY

VELVET SWIMMING CRABS

DEVONSHIRE CUP CORAL

PAINTED TOP SHELLS AND SPONGES

SEA SLUG Facelina coronata

SPOTTED COWRIES

STAR ASCIDIAN (SEA SQUIRT)

BEADLET ANEMONE

BRITTLESTAR

BROAD-CLAWED PORCELAIN CRAB

SEA HARE

SPOTTED COWRIE

FEATHER STAR

COMMON BEADLET ANEMONE

COMMON BEADLET ANEMONE

COMMON LOBSTERS

COMMON STARFISH IN ROCKPOOL

COMMON STARFISH IN ROCKPOOL

CUSHIONSTARS

DAISY ANEMONE

LONG-LEGGED SPIDER CRAB

EDIBLE CRAB

FURROWED CRAB

CUSHION STAR

LEATHERY SEA SQUIRT Styela clava - a non-native

NATIVE OYSTER

PACIFIC OR PORTUGUESE OYSTER - a non-native species

ORANGE SPONGE

PACIFIC OR PORTUGUESE OYSTER - a non-native species

SEA LEMON

SEA LEMON

SNAKE PIPEFISH

SNAKE PIPEFISH

SNAKELOCKS ANEMONE

SPINY STARFISH

TRIGGERFISH

TRIGGERFISH

VOLCANO BARNACLES

WORM PIPEFISH

WORM PIPEFISH

FIVE BEARDED ROCKLING

BAKED BEAN SEA SQUIRTS (ASCIDIAN)

CUTTLEFISH EGGS ON SARGASSUM (WIREWEED)

CORELLA EUMYOTA - AN ALIEN OR NON-NATIVE ASCIDIAN (SEA SQUIRT)

LIGHTBULB SEA SQUIRTS

DEADMANS FINGERS Alcyonium digitatum under overhang

The soft coral Alcyonium digitatum (DEADMANS FINGERS)

SHOAL OF LESSER SANDEELS IN ROCKPOOL

LESSER SANDEELS

Orange-clubbed sea slug LIMACIA CLAVIGERA

LITTLE BRITTLESTARS

SMOOTH HOUND IN ROCKPOOL

YOUNG COMMON LOBSTER IN ROCKPOOL