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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 (5 days ago)
2 votes

sepiola hiding and modulating chromatophores
By Michele Lazzari
posted 03:00 CST Today (14 hours ago)
2 votes

Thuridilla hopei_October 2024
(CanonEF100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted (6 days ago)
1 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 02:01 CST Today (15 hours ago)
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 (3 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
Rainbow and Brown Trout at Capernwray, a small land-locked lake in the North of England
Trying to capture this little guy was great.
Flying gunnard
Angel fish. Turned into me with a startled look. Shot with G10 in canon housing using built in flash
Frog fish
Yellow sponge. Calanques de Cassis. Canon G10, Dyron 12mm fisheye.
On the hunt!!!!
Solitudine
hard and soft....I like the various shapes and textures of the hard and soft corals, and here was also the color variations.
Taken by Nikon D200. 10-24mm nikon lens with 2 strobe ys110
look at me showing off my striking colours...
Red anemone and anemone fish XI.
Red anemone and anemone fish II.
shortlistedShortlisted!
Amphora form Bodrum/Turkiye. Taken with Nikon D80, Nikon 10,5mm fisheye lens and YS-110 & YS-110a double strobe.
shortlistedShortlisted!

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
great CFWA shot. This is how it's done!
This anenome fish and large anenome was taken on the Shinkoku Maru . The Odyssey dive boat is above.
The wrecks of Truk Lagoon are brimming with life and really are living reefs on wrecks
Canon ixus 100, inon fisheye lens, single inon d2000 strobe
giant clam and divers, Raja Ampat
"Sponge, Sea Cucumbers and Sardines"
This fantastic situation I found at Pescador Island near the Kasai Village, Moaloal, Philippines.
(Olympus E-3, 8mm fisheye, ISO250, 1/250, F7,1)
shortlistedShortlisted!
Nikon D300 - 10,5mm - DS160
A Pearl Sea Star crawling up a small Polyp Stony Coral. Canon G10 + Inon Strobe.
Moray eel. Canon G10, Dyron 12mm fisheye.
Both of these beauties have a nasty sting! Canon G10 + Inon Strobe
Deep red
Nikon D200.10,5mmnikor.twinstrobo sea and sea 120ys
Moal Boal
Platax sur l'épave du Thistlegorm.
It's raining mackerel!
Nikonos RS 13 mm and 2 Ikelite SS-200's, shot on kodachrome 64
Angel in Cozumal
hawksbill turtle
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