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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 474  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)
Turtle in Cave - Saipan
Pair of gray angelfish swim towards a squirrelfish. Taken at 35 feet in Puerto Rico with a Canon A-20.
This queen parrotfish photo was taken in Grand Cayman at 50 feet with a housed Canon A-40.
This Gray Angelfish photo was taken at about 50 feet in the waters off of Puerto Rico
Conger Eel; Roatan; Housed Nikon F, 55mm Auto Micro Nikkor Lens
White-belly damsel. The is a huge shutter delay on my digital camera, so I had some luck (Ras Mohammed, Egypt).
Scorpionfish/Trumpetfish; Roatan; Housed Nikon F, 55 Auto Micro Nikkor Lens
Puffers are dangerous? Housed Nikon 8008S off the Big Island of Hawaii
Love story, Black Sea, Nikonos V, 35mm, macro 1:3
False anemonefish in anemone tentacles. Manado. Nikon F90x with ringflash
Agua Viva em Arraial do Cabo-RJ - Brasil, Nikonos V com Tubo de Extensão 1:1
Manado, Indonesia, 105mm lens and two flashguns. Pink Anemonefish and anemone
Olive Sea Snake; Loloata Island, PNG; Housed Nikon F, 24mm Auto Micro Nikkor Lens

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Saipan Grotto
Murena - Amantea (Cosenza - Italy). Nikon F801s + AF-D 105 mm in Underwave Housing.
Black Sea common weever in a hunting position, Nikonos V, 28 mm macro tube 1:2
Getting Personal with Southern Stingray--Housed Nikon 8008S
Apogon Imberbis in Giglio Island (Italy). Nikon F801s with AF-D 105 mm + Close Up Lens 4T in Underwave Housing. It was very hard to obtain a correct focus and likely composition becouse the fish would not stay still.
Cuttlefish, Babbacombe, Devon, F90X 105mm lens
Rhinopias: Loloata Island, PNG: Housed Nikon F, 55mm Auto Micro Nikkor
Crocodile fish eye, shot while he rested on the sand @ 24m in mozambique
Ghost pipefish, Loloata Island, PNG: Housed Nikon F, 55 Auto Micro Nikkor
Lionfish, Loloata Island, PNG. Housed Nikon F, Auto micro Nikkor 55mm lens
Puffer on wall - Marianas
Nudibranch, taken on a shallow reef of the Kwajalein Lagoon, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Hyppocamphus
flabellina
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