On Montara Mountain (San Pedro Valley CP).

I've been looking up local manzanitas pretty much just on a whim and not out of any particular affection (I like manzanitas as a whole, but I haven't been inspired to tease out the species differences by looking at hairs forever), so I wasn't expecting to love this species. The overlapping leaves look awesome, like a protea or hops or something, and the hairs on the edges catch the light.

First known wild observations and discovery of natural fluorescent in an old world mammal or any mammal outside of North and Central America, images of the Springhare taken in August 2019. Incredible to see it’s orange and pink glow firsthand, especially when it wasn’t expected! Accidental discovery whilst out photographing scorpions under UV light

Shot using a Nikon D850 Handheld with a Nitecore Chameleon C6 ( 365nm ) torch.

For anyone interested in February 2020 a Scientific journal was released by a American research group ( no relation to me ) about this UV trait and science behind it from research in museum & zoo specimens in the US.

There are a few more images, but you might be able to imagine photographing a rather skittish nocturnal creature on foot with a UV torch in one hand and a large DSLR in the other during a unexpected encounter whilst also trying to expose a camera correctly for UV light isn’t the easiest thing to do the split second.

Night tidepooling.

Little sleepy fish. When I first found it it was facing into a rock, unmoving. I slowly moved the rock aside for a photo and it hung there looking at me for a while, and then plunged its whole front half into the sand to continue sleeping away from my flash.

Species clade is under review, this specimen belongs to the western clade, and should be moved to either Pristurus guweirensis Haas, 1943 (=P. r. guweirensis elevated to species level) or Pristurus migiurtinicus Scortecci, 1933