Prints · Lembeh Strait · Open edition

Three Hearts

Juvenile cuttlefish red

The story · in my own words

A cuttlefish changes colour faster than almost anything else on the reef, and this one is a juvenile doing it while the camera was on it.

Its blood is green-blue rather than red, because it carries oxygen with copper where most animals use iron. Copper carries much less of it, so the blood has to move faster, and three hearts move it: one for each gill, and a third for the rest of the animal.

Three hearts, and blood that has to hurry. Lembeh Strait, north Sulawesi.

A juvenile cuttlefish in red, the Lembeh Strait.

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02How it was made
How it was made · from the file

Eight lines from the dive

Exposure
ISO 100 · 1/250 · f14
Camera
5DSR + EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Housing
Nauticam 5DSR
Lighting
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D2
Accessories
None
Technique
Single strobe
Conditions
Dark and particulate
Visibility
10 m
The technique and lighting lines link to the craft articles that explain them. A dash means the record does not hold it, and I would rather show the gap than fill it.
03Where
Where · North Sulawesi

Photographed in Lembeh Strait

When you would see it in Lembeh Strait
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Copper is high season, grey is shoulder, a stub is closed. The same calendar the destination publishes.
Read the Lembeh Strait guide
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