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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 (3 days ago)
4 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (5 days ago)
2 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
1 votes

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

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (2 days ago)
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (3 days ago)
0 votes

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

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Tuesday, December 24, 2024
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted 05:47 CST Today (2 hours ago)
0 votes
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12966 Entries Found: Page 463  of  481
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)
Redlip Batfish. Photograph taken during a night dive in Wolf island,Galapagos.
Yum yum. Baby Cuttle. Derewan. MMIII. This baby cuttle was hiding in a gorgonian forest and I'm not sure if it was hungry or sticking its tongue at in a rude jesture!
Hey, anybody in there?
Home sweet home! by Paul
by: Paul
Home sweet home!
olympus C50-50 by P R Cox
by: P R Cox
olympus C50-50
Taken under Swanage pier in 2 metres by P R Cox
by: P R Cox
Taken under Swanage pier in 2 metres
This spotted morray was found in Las Palmas, Cozumel, and it is one of many shots. But in this one I can't help thinking is it saying hello... It was taken during an afternoon dive, with an Olympus C5050, PT-015 hosuing and internal strobe.
F100 and 105mm setup taken at Wakatobi.
G'day Motormarine III macro. Derawan. 15 minutes of getting close finally let me get this shot
Moray eel taken with a Canon ixus 300 at Bamburi reef, Mombasa, Kena
My Buddy Spike. Taken in Roatan, Honduras with housed Nikon N90s and Ike Substrobe 200.
Sad Clown. Photo taken in Fiji with housed N90s, 105mm lens, & Ikelite Substrobe 200.
Male cuckoo wrasse, Penzance, Cornwall. Nikon D100 & 60mm lens
Fairy Basslet
Dancing by - taken with MMIII macro. Off the shipwreck at Derawan - Was setting up to take shot of nudi when this flatworm came dancing by. Tried to keep with it and get the best shot I could

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Shape, form, pattern = good stuff John!
Anemonefish on the Kensho Maru, Truk Lagoon.
Reef Squid in Bonaire.
China Rockfish--British Columbia (Nikon F4, 105mmMacro, Aquatica housing, Ikelite strobes, Velvia)
John Dory, Cornwall, D100 & 60mm lens
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2004

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Best of British contender here!
Are we beautiful? Taken with Olympus E-20 in Titan housing with macro lense and two Sea&Sea YS-90 strobes.
Blue spotted stingray, taken when free diving at Bamburi reef in Mombasa Kenya
Flounder that was looking at me in Bonaire!
Found this large pufferfish hanging around the engine room of the cement barge. Motormarine IIEX closeup lens, Dubai. UAE.
clown fish , puerto galera , philipinnes , one of my first attempts at macro . aggresive little fish liked to attck my lense
Quatres Nudibranches / Philippines
A squid on a night dive in Dominica. Shot with N90 and 105 macro lense with Iklite strobes
Clown fish in Marsa Alam. Taken with Olympus E-20 in Titan housing with macro lense and two Sea&Sea YS-90 strobes.
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