Photo library

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This area will always be under construction as I add images to both my database and this website. It will follow biological nomenclature where it makes sense to do so. I have thousands of photos that are not yet digitized so please contact me for any difficult to get or obscure shots. I have a large collection of photos from the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand.  All fees are by negotiation but reflect competitive, current market rates. Educators and students may use the low res shots on site free of charge as long as the photo is credited. Links would be wonderful.

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The Resplendent Raja Ampat Dive Trip 2012

Behavior	Chordates	Coral Reefs	Country (Scenes and culture)
Crypsis (Camouflage)	Cyanobacteria	Fungi	Industry
Invertebrates	Plants	Textures and patterns	Kakapo
Tuatara	Paddy's latest book	Paddy's Dive Trips	Sea of Cortez Photos
Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill	Fort Worth Zoo	Paddy's National Geographic Explorer cover

ARKive www.arkive.org the definitive collection of films and photographs of endangered species from around the globe.

Living Seas - an eco-blog.

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Carbonite back-ups: Great idea, complete waste of time for photographers or anyone else with a lot of data. Initial upload is reasonably fast but once you get to 250 gigs the upload slows down to a maximum of 100 kbs. It now takes me about a week to upload a gig of data and I have 900 gigs to go. I don't mind waiting for a year to have off-premise storage but this just won't work for me. I'm not sure I have 18 years to spare.

Check out Paddy's latest book Kri Eco -Raja Ampat

The reefs around the Raja Ampat Islands are one of the glories of the planet. Already affected by uncontrolled shark fishing and way too much surface trash, they nevertheless contain the greatest biodiversity on the planet.

This book, based on three weeks and 43 dives at the Kri Eco Resort, is my tribute to this extraordinary dive destination.

 

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GREAT RAJA AMPAT DIVE ADVENTURE

The 2009 trip. Complete with review.

A few photos from the Democratic National Convention final night

Gallery of Paddy's Photos	Freelance Activities	Ryan Environmental Reports
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Paddy's essay of the "week"	Selected Abstracts	Contact Paddy
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Paddy in Belize, 2006. Photo by Dave Herrick.

“We sat on a crate of oranges and thought what good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world—temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Once in a while one comes on the other kind—what used in the university to be called a “dry-ball”—but such men are not really biologists. They are the embalmers of the field, the picklers who see only the preserved form of life without any of its principle. Out of their own crusted minds they create a world wrinkled with formaldehyde. The true biologist deals with life, with teeming boisterous life, and learns something from it, learns that the first rule of life is living. The dry-balls cannot possibly learn a thing every starfish knows in the core of his soul and in the vesicles between his rays. He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities. And we have known biologists who did proliferate in all directions: one or two have had a little trouble about it. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.” John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

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