RHAPSODY IN THE BLUES- MALDIVES 2021-SEPT/OCT
Tryst with the Maori
Slip in to the deep blue and you’ll find Maori warriors, complete with painted faces and bodies just like their human counterparts. These “Maori Wrasse” actually boast intricate blue green orange scribbles on their faces and parts of their body and black markings behind their eyes.
What-er World ANILAO
Nearby a pair of lizards seem far more threatening though, watching us carefully with their ruby eyes. Resting on a green patch, so closely do the lizardfish resemble their earthly twins that it’s easy to forget where you are, but in sharp contrast to their lookalikes, these slender masters of camouflage have a mouthful of needle-like teeth.
Beauty of the blur
Pronounced as ‘Bo-Kay’ or ‘Boke’ the term comes from Japan and means blur or haze referring to the blurred quality in Photographs. It is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in an out-of-focus part of an image by a lens. When the blurred background has a high aesthetic quality to it the photograph is said to have achieved “good bokeh”.