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Watch the first-ever video of an octopus changing colors while dreaming

Nov 18, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment
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If you’ve ever watched a cat or a dog sleeping, you could tell if it was dreaming. But did you know you can tell while an octopus is dreaming, too? In fact, you can probably even guess approximately what it’s dreaming about.

Professor David Scheel witnessed a remarkable moment of an octopus dreaming and rapidly changing colors in its sleep. He filmed the entire thing, and it could be the first time a dreaming octopus has ever been caught on camera.

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Watch: photographer films getting a “hug” from a giant octopus

Nov 15, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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Octopuses are interesting and intriguing creatures in more than one way. While they have some unique bodily traits, like three hearts, they also keep surprising us with their remarkable intelligence. They have characters, they can be mischievous, and they can even recognize faces. And if your face is a friendly one – you may even get a hug.

This is exactly what happened to a group of divers from Campbell River, Canada. As they were exploring and photographing the underwater world of the Salish Sea, they encountered a rare giant octopus. The animal wasn’t only eager to pose – it even gave one of them a “hug,” and it was all caught on camera.

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Wild octopuses caught on video throwing trash at each other for first time

Nov 11, 2022 by Alex Baker Leave a Comment
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It seems like throwing trash at one another is not behavior isolated to politicians. Scientists in Australia have witnessed wild octopuses throwing sand and shells at each other in a series of videos. This is previously unrecorded behavior and the researchers believe that it is intentional.

The rather gloriously named gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) were caught in the act off the coast of Jervis Bay in New South Wales, Australia. Scientists analyzed 24 hours of footage filmed across several days and found 102 instances of the behavior in 10 different animals.

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Watch this curious octopus trying to steal a diver’s GoPro

Jul 31, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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If you ask me, animals who steal cameras are always fun to watch. We’ve seen some hilarious encounters of mammals and birds with GoPros, and the funny video we’re about to share with you today took place in the sea. It shows a curious little octopus persistently trying to steal a diver’s GoPro. And it looks like the animal liked it a lot!

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The Octopus is a 5K full frame open source camera that lets you swap out sensors

Jun 24, 2019 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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Now that digital imaging sensors are starting to become more freely available to the masses, all kinds of open source projects have been popping up that use them. Most of them are typically fairly limited to things like the Raspberry Pi or development boards like the Arduino and ESP32.

But now, there is a new and pretty serious looking open source camera out there. It’s called the Octopus, it has interchangeable sensors that go up to 5K full frame, it’s fully programmable and runs on the open source operating system, Linux.

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Crazy Wedding Photography with Dinosaurs, Meteor Showers and Giant Octapi

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Aug 8, 2015 by Roderique Arisiaman 6 Comments
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Last year saw the rise of epic wedding photo’s featuring bridal guests running away from dinosaurs, fighting zombies, be awesome Jedi’s and so on.

A new trend was born and I decided to hop on this bandwagon and see if I could make images like these come true.

I banded together with Aqua Libra Photography for a brainstorm session, to see what we could come up with.

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Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe

Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.

John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.

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