Here are some examples of my favorite creature photos, inculding examples of camouflage using photos taken on recent trips. In some cases I use selective saturation and/or blurring to highlight the camouflaging. I start with flounder fish. In this example I took a photo of what I thought was a single flounder hiding on a coral head. When I started playing with the photo, I realized that there were actually two flounder. The following is a single photo at various stages of selective saturation.

Next is an example of a Scorpionfish hiding on coral.

Next is an octopus on a coral head. Again - this is a single photo with various selections of color saturation. In the bottom right portion, we zoom in on the octopus.

Next we look at a crab hiding on the sandy bottom. Details are given within the figure.

Another way fish hide is by shadowing other fish. The Trumpetfish likes to do this - conforming itself to the top of the fish that it is shadowing. The first photo shows a Trumpetfish shadowing a Stoplight Parrotfish and in the next a trumpetfish is shaowing a Spanish Hogfish.

During the first dive of our July 2014 trip I came upon two Grunts fighting. The image below is a merge of portions of three photos. The image of the grunts at the bottom was the first of the sequence. Over the course of taking the three photos, about 10 seconds apart, I was getting closer to the fish.

For the last two photos I used selective blurring to make the fish stand out over the background. First, a Sand Diver then followed by a Cowfish.

And finally these ...

Here is a dramatic example of a Porgyfish exhibiting camouflage. I took these photos in Jan 2009. The time separation between the two photos is about 10 seconds. In the first photo (left) the Porgy is in front of a Gorgonian coral and its stripes seem to conform to the coral. A few seconds later the Porgy swims away and the stripes are almost gone.