Tide Play

Feel free to click the image to enlarge and click again to get even closer … Various seaweeds, August 2019, Exmouth, Devon, England. © Pete Hillman.

Watery Embrace

Seaweed torn from its moorings, August 2019, Exmouth, Devon, England. © Pete Hillman.

Underwater

I love how the sunlight sparkles and shimmers within the rippling movement of the waters on the coast. These are abstract worlds which I would like to glimpse more often than I do, full of the richness of life and wonder. These images feature what I believe is a seaweed called Gutweed (Ulva intestinalis). Click...

Discoveries In The Rockpool #2

Double click image to delve deeper into the rockpool. What can you discover? August 2015 Meadfoot Beach, Torquay, Devon.

Discoveries In The Rockpool

Double click image to delve deeper into the rockpool. What can you discover? August 2015 Meadfoot Beach, Torquay, Devon.

Washed Up

Double click to get in amongst the various seaweeds washed up on the shore. August 2017, Shanklin Beach, Isle of White, England.

Spiral Wrack Fucus spiralis

Shanklin Beach, Isle of White, England. August 2017.

Coral Weed

Corallina officinalis This seaweed has a feathery appearance with its regular, opposing branched pattern. It varies in colour due to age and lighting conditions. The deeper it is it grows dark pink. It has a pink, disc-shaped encrusting holdfast which helps it anchor itself to rocks, shells or other larger seaweeds. It can grow up...

Prasiola stipitata

This is a small, dark green lettuce-like algae when wet, which forms flaky coatings over rocks and boulders. Length 1cm. It grows on rocks and stones in the splash zone, mostly frequented by seabirds which drop their faeces from which it gets its nitrates to flourish. A common and widespread species, but mainly seen in...