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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)
A large lobster in Cozumel w/ a nice cave to hid in. His antennae were actually resting on my camera for this shot.
San Diego, CA. Seahorse. Nice to not have the Nikonos framer for this one. Macro 60mm, fuji s2, dual strobes.
Splendid toadfish, native to Cozumel.
SeaTurtle taken on a reef dive in akumal, mexico with a nikon coolpix 5400 and ikelite housing
San Diego, CA. Seahorse in the grass. Fuji s2, Ikelite, dual strobes.
All the world loves a clown; and I go NUTS over these beautiful fish. Anemonefish is A. percula taken in Mabul with Nik D70, 105mm lens and dual Inon strobes.
The picture was taken in the Red Sea with the Olympus C7070 and Inon D-2000 strobe.
Beautiful backdrop and check out that smile. Taken in Cozumel w/ a canon S500 digital.
Night dive in Bohol, Philippines. Right place, right time! Nik V with close up kit.
Picture taken on in less than 20 feet with canon s500 with no accessories.
French grunts behaving in Key Largo. Taken with the Nikon D2x, 60mm micro Nikkon lens in Subal housing. Two Ikelite strobes.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
A nice behavior shot from Luiz
Nice Big Pearly Whites -Taken in the Bahamas with Canon 20D and dual strobes
Deadly but oh, so cute! Blue-ring octopus taken in Kapalai, Borneo, Malaysia. Nik D70, 105mm lens & dual Inon strobes.
Posser...Great Barrier Reef Olypus 5060 Factory housing- internal flash
That's comfy? Blacktip grouper from Mabul. Nikon D70 and Inon strobes.
False Nemo-Great barrier reef. 5060 Tetra housing
Cuttlefish portrait from Mabul. Nikon D70, 105mm lens & Inon strobes.
Taken in Layang Layang, Malaysia with my Sony P120
This guy looks pretty mean with that black war paint - taken in the Bahamas with Canon 20D 100mm and dual DS125's
Queen Angle portrait taken in the Bahamas with a Canon 20D Dual DS125's
This little guy posed so nice for the camera. Taken in the Bahamas with a Canon 20D and dual DS125's
Solomons Anemone Fish. Taken with Nikon D70 in Subal Housing & 60mm macro
These little guys will flustrate any photographer. They have an incredible ability to sit and pose so pretty than pop back into there home just when you try and take the picture -) Canon 20D two DS125s

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
You can spend a whole dive waiting for this shot!
Slender Filefish. Bonaire.
Octopus. Bonaire. I saw something floating by on a nightdive on descent. It turns out it was this little fellow. He was the size of a fingernail.
f100 / 105mm , twin strobe.KBR Indonesia.
What are you looking at? Taken in the Bahamas with Canon 20D and dual DS125's
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