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Taken at Stingray Sandbar in the early morning hours. Tok 10-17; Canon T2i; natural light.
ZEN
My favourite place at dawn. The famous Sandbar (close to Stingray City) in Grand Cayman. We don't feed the Stingrays (we go before the feedings starts). This makes them at ease, like it eases us. They choose to hang around, look, play, rest!
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Canon T2i; 100mm macro; f/32; 1/180; ISO 200; 2 Ike strobes @ full power pointed outward
Canon 100mm macro with +5 diopter. Babylon, Grand Cayman.
Friendly turtle on Cayman's East End. Shot with T2i/Tokina 10-17 FE at 17mm; 1/125; 100 ISO; f/6.3; 2 Ike strobes at about half power.
taken on Cayman Aggressor with Tokina 10-17
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Nice work with Snell's Window, Tom !
This was taken at the Stingray Sandbar in Cayman, with natural light and my Tokina 10-17 FE.
If you count them well, you will find up to 10 Southern Stingrays on the photo
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Southern stingray
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Grouper in Little Cayman; T2i w/ Canon 100mm macro lens; Nauticam housing; Ike strobes
Social feather dusters in Grand Cayman taken with Canon T21 in Nauticam housing; Canon 100mm macro lens.
Natural light shot of flamingo tongues.
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Slipper lobster closeup.
What do we have here...
Even when your strobes don't work and you've lost all colors because of depth (105ft), you always find things you do have, in this case divers and a great wall. Time for a B/W again (maybe I just sell my new strobes;-)
Bridled Goby
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Final RoundThrough to 2012 awards final round judging
Tarpons and silversides in diver's paradise
First dive with my new camera and a zillion of things didn't work because I hadn't read all the manuals. So...I went ambient and while exiting Devil's Grotto the school of silversides 'waved' to the o...
Ball of silversides...on the roll!
Finally the silversides arrived at Devil's Grotto. Every year awaited by tarpons, jacks, groupers...and divers!
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2012
3rd place Monthly HotShots
Final RoundThrough to 2012 awards final round judging

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No need for big toys - When knowing how to "draw with the light", even the smallest camera can produce a winner shot. Awesome scene, Ellen !
Feather duster worm
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Look at my curves! Caribbean Reef Squid posing at the Eden Rock stairs!
A school of Horse-Eyed Jacks hanging around at Devil's Grotto/Eden Rock.
spiny head blenny
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sponges under boat
Blue Split, The Sandbar, Grand Cayman
Nikon D700, Tokina 10-17 11mm, 1/250 F.11 ISO 200, Natural light
Runner Up Monthly HotShots shortlistedShortlisted!

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A very unusual crop, but it comes with a nice graphical output.
Kittiwake Bow, Grand Cayman.
Nikon D7000. Tokina 10-17 10mm end, 1/250, f.8, ISO 200, Natural light, black & white conversion
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