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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 (5 days ago)
5 votes

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

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

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted Yesterday
1 votes

Octopus vulgaris
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Yesterday
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted (2 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)
Sponge Crab at Mabul
Puffer in grouper part 2. They both look a bit more stressed in this one.
Came across them on a night dive off Palm Beach. Nikon D50 with Subtronic, only had camera a week!
2 Leafy Sea Dragon (Fetzendrachenfische), Kangaroo Island / South Australia.
During our 2 Week Diving Trip, we got many Chances to find him - Thanks to Jim.
Lionfish in Taiwan ... Still amazed how much more detail the E900 picks up..
Fangtooth Moray (Enchelycore anatina) from La Gomera in the Canary Isles
Royal angelfish - photo was taken at Sharks bay with an olympus C60
Just started taking macro shots this trip (60mm Canon 20d) ....this is some kind of shrimpy thing in between sea grapes!
Weedy Scorpion Fish at Lembeh, one of many strange animal.
Yesterdays dive at Haleiwa the Trench on the North Shore of Oahu. Shot at ~70’.
MMmmmm, Maldives, Mantas, Many!!
I saw several Cowfish on my last trip to Isla Musjeres. His picture was taken with a Canon PowerShot SD 550.
Crocodile Portrait in the Red Sea...
Coral Trout Exmouth Navy Pier Olympus 7070
Zebrasoma Surgeonfish - Photo was taken at sharks bay with an olympus C60
Ningaloo Reef, Australia. Olympus 8080 in PT 023-housing.
The photographer's favourite - tompot blenny.
James Eagan Layne, Plymouth.
F90X, 60mm.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
We've all shot a roll (or card) or two on this subject but we never tire of it - and Mark has a good one here
Baby purple stonefish in Taiwan.. first day with FUJI E900... love it... twin INON macro lenses... 1x D2000 strobe
Yellow Frog: Nikon F90x, 105macro, Two strobo TTL Indonesia
Common Sea Dragon - Weedy , Kangaroo Island / South Australia.
Very activ - very difficult to make good shots of him.
Pink Anemonefish; Nikon D70s/60mm lens
a couple of anemone fishes in their home anemone, off Sipadan
Taken with Sony DSC F828, in Ikelite housing
This curious squid was seen at Roatan. His picture was taken with a Caplio RR 30.
Puffer fish in mouth of a grouper taken off Palm Beach on a night dive off MV Shearwater. Nikon D50 with 18-55 in Sea & Sea housing with Subtronic strobe.
Check out the look in this unicorn's eye. Taken in Ras Mohammed, Egypt.
Taken at Sipadan Island, East Malaysia
Hairy Frogfish. MABUL Island
D70,105mm
Who needs a fishing rod? I could have caught these Red Mullet in my hand! Anybody know what they taste like? Taken last week in La Gomera, Canary Islands using Canon A70 and internal flash
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