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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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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
Hawk Fish " bet you can't see me by Karl Hodgkins
Hawk Fish " bet you can't see me
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Sea lion near Cousin rock, Galapagos. by Mikhail Smirnov
Sea lion near Cousin rock, Galapagos.
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21 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 27, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Ecuador
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Red scorpion fish - Scorpaena scrofa by Vittorio Durante
Red scorpion fish - Scorpaena scrofa
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Vapor de Baixo wreck in Brazil by Edson Acioli
Vapor de Baixo wreck in Brazil
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is that a red filter on the strobe I see?
29 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 24, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (South America coastal) Brazil
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Sea coral&fish-Red sea by Yakout Hegazy
Sea coral&fish-Red sea
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Faroe islands
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Big fin reef squid by Charles Wright
Big fin reef squid
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean South Africa
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North Cyprus 2011 by Timucin Ucar
North Cyprus 2011
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Cyprus
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The Sugar Wreck offers a perfect spot for a night dive an... by Steven Anderson
The Sugar Wreck offers a perfect spot for a night dive and I was amazed with the saturated colors of the many different soft and hard corals.Beautiful sea fans and whips scatter the old wreck in shallow water.
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Tubbataha Red Sea fan by Joshua Tappert
Tubbataha Red Sea fan
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Sulu and Sulawesi Seas Philippines
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Diver Encounter with a Red Lionfish East End, Grand Caym... by Jason Eastman
Diver Encounter with a Red Lionfish
East End, Grand Cayman
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just the sort of shot in demand by dive mags
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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what a color.... by Juan Cardona
what a color....
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Trumpet and my friend Carlos. by Juan Torres
Trumpet and my friend Carlos.
23 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Puerto Rico
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Nudy in childbirth. by Levent Albas
Nudy in childbirth.
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26 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Aegean Sea Turkey
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.... by Federico Senesi
....
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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A videographer shooting a close up video of a wobbegong. by Burak Dedeler
A videographer shooting a close up video of a wobbegong.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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This image of a baby Hawksbill Turtle was a hard one to g... by Steven Anderson
This image of a baby Hawksbill Turtle was a hard one to get as he flapped his flippers with excitement in anticipation of being released into the wild as we crossed the Gulf Stream into the Bahamas.
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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.... by Federico Senesi
....
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 17, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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"the last decompression beer" by Rico Besserdich
"the last decompression beer"
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41 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 16, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Turkey
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Great barracuda, Snells window, the Liberty wreck and a d... by Christian Nielsen
Great barracuda, Snells window, the Liberty wreck and a diver. Another great day of diving in Tulamben. Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 15, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Pelagic tunicate colony... never expected to see this in ... by Jp Zegarra
Pelagic tunicate colony... never expected to see this in Cocos... first time I see this rare animal... did not see the hammerhead on top until after seeing it on the computer !!!
Nikon D300 Tokina 10-17 mm
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, January 14, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Cocos Islands
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The Circle of Light by Nathan Cook
The Circle of Light
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Friendly cuttlefish and diver. Nusa Penida Island. Olympu... by Christian Nielsen
Friendly cuttlefish and diver. Nusa Penida Island. Olympus E330, 8mm fisheye, 2 Ikelite DS125 strobes.
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Green Sea Turtle in the Maldives by Michael Johnson
Green Sea Turtle in the Maldives
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, January 10, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific Maldives
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Big fin reef squid by Charles Wright
Big fin reef squid
34 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 9, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Mozambique
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Clown fishes, anemone and divers at Fury Shoals; Nikon D8... by Blaza Jovanovic
Clown fishes, anemone and divers at Fury Shoals; Nikon D80, Tokina 10-17, two DS 125
22 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 9, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Sogod bay , Southern Leyte tokina 10-17 by Harald Fauske
Sogod bay , Southern Leyte
tokina 10-17
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 9, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Tiger Grouper hanging out on a cleaning station in Grand ... by Michael Schlenk
Tiger Grouper hanging out on a cleaning station in Grand Cayman.
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, January 8, 2011
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Gulf Of Mexico Cayman islands
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