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2024 has been the year of the bait ball in Bonaire.  This tired turtle is looking for a place to rest, oblivious of the cyclone of big eye scan just meters away.  Shot with a Nikon Z8/Nauticam housing/INON z330 strobes.
By Leslie Howell
posted (6 days ago)
6 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
3 votes

sepiola hiding and modulating chromatophores
By Michele Lazzari
posted Yesterday
2 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

Imperial Eagle | Malta
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

Octopus vulgaris
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Yesterday
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (6 days ago)
0 votes
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Smaller subjects typically 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5cm) shot on macro settings or with macro equipment that are in MID WATER not touching anything (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
Originally, I only saw the tail of this White Mouth Moray. After finding the business end, I spent a while blinding him with my strobe. Three Tables, Haleiwa, Hawaii
We were watching each other for a while... I could actually watch his eyes follow me around while I was swimming. Stocky Hawkfish, taken at 3 Tables, Haliewa, Hawaii using a single strobe on a Nikon D70 in an Ikelite housing.
This must the be the fish they used for the Rainbow fish book! Stoplight Parrot Fish - Utila, Bay Islands
hide and seek
Blenny.
Isle of Lewis, Hebrides.
D200, 60mm.
Bluehead Wrasse. Nikon D200 with 60mm lens.
Pederson's shrimp with eggs. The corkscrew anemone these guys favor makes a nice backdrop.
A nasty-looking Barracuda, and this wasn't cropped! Nikon D70 with 60mm lens.
"Aww mom, do I hafta go to school today? I got really bad isopods." You know this had to be school picture day down at the local School of Fish. I thought it was bad when I had zits on photo day.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Ouch, that's gotta hurt
'Saddled Trunkfish' Bandos, Maldives. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
Devil scorpionfish sitting on the sand bottom near a wreck at Perhentian Island.
Hi, it's me again... difficult to dive and not shooting at least one picture of those friendly clowns. Marsa Alam, Canon eos1n + 100mm macro.
Close-up of a small Green Moray that was swimming around looking for a hole to hide in. This shot was taken with a Canon A620, no strobe, and at Port stephens, NSW.
Are you looking at me? Spotted trunkfish - Utila, Bay Islands
Kelp Greenling--near Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Nikon F4, 105mm Macro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
Nice colors on this Coney in the Golden phase. D100 in Turks and Caicos.
'THE DANCER' Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
Just started learning colour - Canon 300D. This little fella must have been a coule of days old as this was the best colour display it was able to achieve
Zebra Lionfish, Nusa Kode, Indonesia. Nikkor 60mm.
Fridman's dottyback, diffucult shot as these never seem to keep still. Taken at Marsa Bareika, Ras Mohamed Park with E300.
Eyes wide open for this shot. My brother taking a close look on a trip to Komodo.
Cuttlefish have to be my favorite now... found this baby, 1.5cm long last week and snapped away for 10 minutes.
'OLD LACE' Flatworm on orange sponge. Walindi Plantation; WNB, PNG. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
Dorky Porky. The eyes look like they are made from opals.
frogfish, fuji f450 strobe ds50
Night Dive in Croatia
Juvenile Sweetlips. Always in constant motion, looks like a flying butterfly before you get closer.
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