Behind the Shots – Topher Mueller Creative

About my Photography Equipment

You've seen my byline for my photography, a quotation from local Californian author John Steinbeck: It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again. As you can see in my galleries - I work from the range of about 3-5 millimeters (such as the smallest nudibranchs) to hundreds or thousands of light years away (such as my images of galaxies and star clusters), and everywhere in between. It takes a lot of practice and refining technique for each of those…

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August 23, 2021

Behind the Shots

Nudi-What? The Joy of Hunting Nudibranchs

In my Intertidal & Underwater gallery you'll notice several frilly or alien-looking creatures caught on all sorts of surfaces. These nudibranchs (pronounced new-dih-braynks) are especially fascinating to both marine biologists and underwater photographers. My images only give a small taste of how oddly beautiful and colorful these creatures can be. It's a deep rabbit hole to start researching the wide array of species around the world. There's a lot to learn, and a plethora of resources online. More fun, you'll find that nubibranchs have their own cult followings all over…

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August 5, 2021

"It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again." J. Steinbeck