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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 (5 days ago)
5 votes

Hypselodoris bullokii nudibranch_March 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

sepiola hiding and modulating chromatophores
By Michele Lazzari
posted Yesterday
2 votes

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Pterois miles
Please Help!I'm falling.
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes


By Salvatore Lauro
posted Yesterday
1 votes

Octopus vulgaris
By Cumhur Gedikoglu
posted Yesterday
1 votes

eyes
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted (5 days ago)
0 votes

Goniobranchus collingwoodi nudibranch 
( named also G. tumulifera) _February 2024
(Canon EF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (4 days ago)
0 votes

BLENNIE - Ecsenius lineatus 
ILE DE LA REUNION 2024
By Didier Pasquini
posted (2 days ago)
0 votes
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12968 Entries Found: Page 401  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)
Tompot blenny. North Wales.
Queen Angelfish, Grand Cayman.
Cuttlefish freeswimming in the Philippine Sea... Malapascua Island... E900
Such a wide variety of these lil guys.
Glass eyed Snapper in his lair.
Night Cruise - taken during nightdive with Sea & Sea DX8000G with YS25 strobe
A curious Smooth Trunkfish. Canon A70 with internal flash .

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Give us a kiss!
Cornetfish. D200,60mm.
Leafy Seadragon, Rapid Bay S.A
Angelfish eye. Grand Cayman, July 2006. D70, 105 macro.
clown family
Beautypuss. This is the equivalent of the octopus sitting on its front porch. The bottle was its home. We waited but it wouldn't go back in although it came teasingly close
This little guy was spotted on a night dive in Cozumel, shot with Olympus EZ500 at about 20'.
Nemo and his son.
Juvenile drum fish aboard the Spiegel Grove in Key Largo.
Spotted Drum. The red coralline algae contrasts his its black markings.
up close and personal
This Black Grouper had pulled into a cleaning station, and the little cleaner fish were already at work. Nikon D70 with 60mm lens.

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Open wide!
Trunkfish at night. Can see texture of skin, due to oblique angle of single strobe. Sea and Sea DX5000, Grand Cayman.
Goldsinny. Scotland. D200,60mm.
Pterois volitans - Brothers Island - canon 60 mm Macro
Fish Soup 2. Galapagos 2006.
Puerto Galera.
Burrfish with eye sparkle.
D2x 60mm

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
A super portrait. Dig those alien eyes!
Roatan, Honduras.
Lionfish taken with an Olympus Camedia with built in flash while diving in Fujairah
Filefish going with the flow.
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