Category Archives: Photography

Macro photography of the multi coloured hairs and iridescent scales of butterfly wings by Chris Perani.

Meticulously composed and focussed with a near zero depth of field, many involve the composition of over 2000 separate exposures.

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Three of the winners of Scuba Diving magazine’s 2018 Underwater photography contest.

From top: a whale breach by Rodney Burial (the overall winner); a blanket octopus night-fishing by Cai Songda and The Pit, an underwater cave near Tulum in Mexico by Karen Smith.

MORE: Scuba Diving Magazine’s 2017 Underwater Photo Contest Winners

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Breed portraits by Alexander Khokhlov and Veronika Ershova.

From top: Fanta, the Aussie; Nancy, the Bedlington Terrier; Faqir, the Afghan Hound; Fiji, the Basenji; Platon, the Bracco Italiano and Chika, the Miniature Schnauzer.

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The rose-tinted vision of Europe’s furthest flung island that is Dreamscapes of Iceland – images of the natural terrain in extraordinary shades of visceral red and pink.

Photographer Al Mefer, who fell in love with rural Iceland while exploring the so-called ‘Golden Circle’ in the south of the country, explains:

I wanted to picture it in a way that it’d feel new yet as oneiric in the images as it is to see it live.

In fairness.

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Andy Sheridan (whose excellent work we’ve featured previously) tweetz:

Exhibition opens at 6:30pm tomorrow, Thursday 27th September & runs until the 6th October in the Ranelagh Arts Centre.

In case you missed last year’s show.