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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 (4 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted 10:23 CST Today (7 hours ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted Yesterday
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)
Jelly Fish in Panama City Florida taken with a Canon 20D 100mm lens and dual strobes.
Silver Medal Silver Medal 2005
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a classic jelly shot with negative space behind
Face-to-face with a Cabezon at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Spanish Dancer, Hexabranchus sanguineus - nudibranch, camera Canon EOS 3, Fuji Velvia 50 ISO - scaned, flash Mega Color Subtronic, housing BS Kinetics, place: Sabang Beach, Puerto Galera, Philippines, night dive
Turtle Face
Picture was taken during the day while the turtle was feeding, low aperture and fast, on the Fernando de Noronha Island, northeast of Brazil. Used MMII macro 2T.
Clown fish, Phillipines 2004. Taken with Canon EOS 10D with 100mm Macro
Panamic fanged blenny slightly ascent to the fish and focussing manually
This Lion fish was attacking my camera and I had to keep swimmong backwards.
Perhentian Island, Malaysia.
C-5050 with macro lens.
Dwarf Lionfish
Lembeh straits, Indonesia
Olympus C-5050
"I see me in your lensport" Nikon F80, 60mm macro, Subal housing. Moray at the Mokahinau Island New Zealand.
I'm pretty sure these are baby lobsters...Found them in a sponge in Cozumel. The biggest one wasnt more than a quarter inch.
Parrotfish in Cozumel.
Juvenile French Angel @ night beneath Town Pier, Bonaire with Olympus C4000 @ISO 100, Ikelite DS-125 strobe @ TTL
Butterfly fish in Cozumel. I guess he thought he was an ostrich hiding with his eyes so he couldnt see me.
This little hawkfish is making a valiant effort to defend his home.
Lembeh Straits, C-5050.
Blue ringed octopus.
Perhentian, Malaysia, C-5050 with macro lens.
The shy Queen Angle makes for a great portrait if you canget one to cooperate with you. Taken in the Bahamas with Canon 20D and dual strobes.
Taken in Cozumel on a night dive.
Sea Turtle in Cozumel.
Queen Angel in Cozumel.
Ratfish photographed in Puget Sound, Washington at a depth of 65 feet.
Large gray angelfish profile. Taken in Cozumel.
Garabaldi; Santa Cruz Island, Calif.
California State Marine Fish
Always One in Every Bunch. Taken while snorkling at Atlantis Beach Nassau. Used Sony DSC-P100 digital camera and underwater housing. No strobe. I liked how the one was going his own way from the school.
curious clown fish, red sea, EOS Digital Rebel, Ikelite Substrobe 100A
Pipefish portrait. Taken in Mabul with Nik D70, 105mm lens and dual Inon strobes.
Seahorse at night in Cozumel.
Razors , f100 and 60mm , twin strobes.
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