Rick Gillyon
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Rick Gillyon
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Software engineer and analyst primarily in the NHS. Oracle, pl/sql, apex, js, forms. Geek, 💛 dogs, beer and metal. Ex-diver. 😭 Left-leaning, liberal, he/him.
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Travelling again... 😁
A view from Buda Castle in Budapest, my wife and daughter in the foreground, and the Hungarian parliament building lit up in the background across the Danube.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Last day of #nudivember, so I'll squeeze in a last #nudibranch. This is probably my favourite nudi photo I ever took, on 2nd May 2018 at Sha'ab Maksour in the southern Red Sea. This is a long-tail ceratosoma in soft coral. 😍
A long, smooth white sea slug with bright yellow spots, a blue fringe and purple rhinophores (horns) is moving towards the camera through a field of white soft coral, which has tendrils pulsating in the water.
November 30, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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4th July 2020, at the Blue Caps site at the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England. A stunning Amphorina farrani nudibranch, the only time I ever saw this species. I really miss diving. 😭 #nudivember #nudibranch
A very pretty nudibranch (sea slug), with a white body, long orange-tipped rhinophores (horns), and covered in orange-tipped cerrata (pointy bits). All underwater in the North Sea, and sitting on kelp.
November 30, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Northern lights over Whitley Bay, England in October.
Green and red northern lights in a dark, starry sky. Green and red northern lights in a dark, starry sky.
November 15, 2024 at 2:07 PM