Just shipped these babies to the Clay Center of New Orleans. I'm super excited to be one of the artists chosen by juror Courtney Mattison to showcase my work in the "Ripple Effect" exhibit opening April 19th.
The two pieces I will be showing are sculpted out of white stoneware clay and glazed a lovely bronze color that changes depending on the lighting.
I was taking a picture of a turtle scratching on a rock when our dive guide came over to me and made some very emphatic hand signals at me and motioned for me to follow. When we arrived, I figured out what his hand signals meant - this pair of colorful lettuce were mating! The photo was tricky to capture because they were in a cut between the rocks with quite a bit of surge.
An olive green Gloomy Nudibranch crawling over a sandy south shore Oahu reef. These tend to be larger, maybe as long as your pinky finger. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday
Today’s feature is a whole family of 3,000+ species, the Nudibranchs. Truly beautiful, they are small sea slugs recognizable by the exposed gills on their back, and they come in virtually every color and combination of colors. Some are poisonous while others pretend to be poisonous with their vibrant colors. Some feed on stinging cells of hydrozoans and store them in the rear of their body for protection. Some ingest toxins from sponges and become toxic and inedible. Some even produce their own chemicals.