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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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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)
Harlequin shrimp at PP Island
Nudibranch, Belize NikonF4, Aquatica housing 105mm Macro
scorpionfish PNG new Brit. Walindi Nik.RS
red sea night dive with Nikonos V... a dream come true
Frog band & Frog wife. Lembeh Straits. Pregnant female frogfish on the right.
Lionfish with little fish, Ponta Mamoli-Mozambique.
Jackknife Fish, Cozumel @ night off Viablanca pier, Reefmaster RC, 8X macro
Baby Frogfish from Dumaguete, Philippines
Goatfish with cleaner wrasse, Nuweiba, Egypt. F90X and 60mm lens
A green turtle and his pal, off Kailua-Kona. Nexus housed N90S.
Damselfish, Fiji (Nikon F4/105mmMacro/Velvia)

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
This little guy has expression, and a good crop, at the precise moment
Tang, Safaga - Egypt, Nikon F50 w/ Sunpak flash
Dumaguette House Reef
Night dive at Key Largo... 60mm macro with Nikon D100 and Sea and Sea Housing
The Temple - Red Sea the ideal training school for photographers
Big murene, Hurghada, egypt. May 2003. Olympus 5050 with PT-015 housing and Sea and Sea 90DX flashlite.
Leaf me alone, Fiji 9/03 aboard the Fiji Aggressor II
Boo! / Taken while snorkelling in Boca Raton, FL (depth of aprox 10 feet, with a Nikon D100, Sea & Sea Housing and YS-60)
Grand Catman Opympus 4040 Terta Housing 2 strobes and wet swap macro
Very confident in despite its nature this boxfish has been following me during the whole night dive in the Red Sea
Wakatobi reef at night - and suddendly a small pigmy seahorse freely gliding in the water A special sight never to be missed
Lucky shot of a seahorse on Bonaire, taken with Sea and Sea MM II with a macro lens 1:2
Wrap-around - Taken while snorkelling in Boca Raton, FL.... The constant change of colours was just beautiful....
French Angel, Florida, Nikon F4 Aquatica housing 105mm
Pink anemonefish photographed on the Sankisan Maru in Truk. An example of how lush the marine life is in, on, and around these wrecks. Equipment: housed N90s, 105mm lens, Ikelite Substrobe 200.
Bronze Medal Bronze Medal 2003

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
We get thousands of clownfish shots but this one sticks out. Good composition makes any subject. Here it's a frame within a frame (purple of anemone) and the fish lined up.
angelfish, bonaire, MM 11 macro 1:3
Solo swimmer in Sulawesi night dive this solenostomus paradoxus was really an exciting discovery
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