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Peoples' Vote


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 Yesterday
3 votes

Samaranger Lake
By Michael Baukloh
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

Samaranger Lake
By Michael Baukloh
posted (6 days ago)
2 votes

Samaranger Lake
By Michael Baukloh
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Samaranger Lake
By Michael Baukloh
posted (6 days ago)
1 votes

Cratena nudibranch_September2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f16,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (5 days ago)
1 votes

Cirkewwa Marine Park
By Pieter Firlefyn
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024 (CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (3 days ago)
1 votes

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

collors
By Marc Van Den Broeck
posted Yesterday
1 votes
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shots taken with a WIDE ANGLE (or fisheye) lens having 1) a well defined close subject (usually strobe-lit) AND 2) a wide angle BACKGROUND with a second subject, usually a diver
Scorpionfish by Abimael Márquez
Scorpionfish
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, July 4, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Standing Turtle by Abimael Márquez
Standing Turtle
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Loggerhead turtle ascending for air by Peet J Van Eeden
Loggerhead turtle ascending for air
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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A privileged moment to swim side by side with a loggerhea... by Peet J Van Eeden
A privileged moment to swim side by side with a loggerhead turtle
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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An uncomfortable meeting with a ragged tooth shark by Peet J Van Eeden
An uncomfortable meeting with a ragged tooth shark
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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"Side by Side" - as close as it gets I suppose to this am... by Allen Walker
"Side by Side" - as close as it gets I suppose to this amazing but unpredictable apex predator!
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11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, May 30, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cuba
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shark time by Deniz Muzaffer Gökmen
shark time
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7 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sea Of Cortés /Gulf of California Turkey
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There are a lot of turtles in Piskado Bay. It's rather di... by Florence Van Gaever
There are a lot of turtles in Piskado Bay. It's rather difficult to take a picture without the legs if 100 snorklers 😉
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Tasty pastry. Elegant and colorful jelly fish, El Quseir... by Margriet Tilstra
Tasty pastry.
Elegant and colorful jelly fish, El Quseir, Egypte.
Nikon D80 with Ikelite housing and two Ikelite strobes. Tamron SP-AF 17-50, 17mm, ISO 100, f/7.1, 1/60.
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15 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, April 1, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Did you knock on my door? A puffadder shyshark is in f... by Peet J Van Eeden
Did you knock on my door?
A puffadder shyshark is in fact quite harmless
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 21, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Lone Drifter by Peet J Van Eeden
Lone Drifter
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 13, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Red Sea Anemonfish (Amphiprion bicinctus), Red Sea, Sanga... by Reinhard Arndt
Red Sea Anemonfish (Amphiprion bicinctus), Red Sea, Sanganeb, Sudan
1 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 7, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Sudan
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I can't promise you a rose garden,but a sea anemone garden by Peet J Van Eeden
I can't promise you a rose garden,but a sea anemone garden
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Colours splash by Svetoslav Dimitrov
Colours splash
2 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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School of fishes at the jetty in Brayka Bay, Marsa alam by Svetoslav Dimitrov
School of fishes at the jetty in Brayka Bay, Marsa alam
3 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 31, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Nice Moray by Abimael Márquez
Nice Moray
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 29, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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I can't promise you a Rose garden, but this is better by Peet J Van Eeden
I can't promise you a Rose garden, but this is better
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 28, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Strength in Unity by Peet J Van Eeden
Strength in Unity
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Drifting by Peet J Van Eeden
Drifting
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 24, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mozambique Channel South Africa
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Not so shy Curious shy shark on the PMB wreck by Peet J Van Eeden
Not so shy
Curious shy shark on the PMB wreck
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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WWII minesweeper converted into an artificial reef with a... by Peet J Van Eeden
WWII minesweeper converted into an artificial reef with abundant sea- life
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 20, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic South Africa
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New Home PMB is a sunken minesweeper to form an artifici... by Peet J Van Eeden
New Home
PMB is a sunken minesweeper to form an artificial reef. It recruited neighbouring marine life and is now fully colonised.
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 20, 2022
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date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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Pillar of Life. Pristine marine life covering the bare... by Peet J Van Eeden
Pillar of Life.
Pristine marine life covering the bare metal of the PMB wreck sunken as an artificial reef.
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (African coastal) South Africa
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zenobia wreck by Natascha Lobisch
zenobia wreck
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 16, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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Amphiprion ocellaris. Tulamben, Bali. Canon G16 by Athanassios Lazarides
Amphiprion ocellaris. Tulamben, Bali. Canon G16
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 10, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Indonesia
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... by Sergiy Glushchenko
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3 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 4, 2022
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Ukraine
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Nursehark hiding from the current, Cozumel. by Brian Smith
Nursehark hiding from the current, Cozumel.
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 22, 2021
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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