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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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5177 Entries Found: Page 185  of  192
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
My favorite non mouving subject are those soft corals taken in Sangalaki D200/10.5mmm
My first large fish entry D200/10.5mm
Picasso Trigger
bubbles of air, decompression of 3 metres, the hull
The Queen, D70, Santa Lucia, Cuba
Following a young Whale Shark (very close!) into a sardine baitball. Canon 10-22mm, twin DS-125 strobes. The best dive I've ever had!
Jellyfish & Sunburst
Lion Fish..
Maybe under the wrong categorie,I'm not sure with woukd be best But I shot it with the 10.5 so I think is ok D200/10.5mm
Back with some wide angle macro this time a classic whip coral shot D200/10.5mm
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An arty shot that is all composition
A Flat star on the wreck of the Teti sunk 1930 Komiza Vis.
Pillar Coral (view looking down with my fish-eye lense).
Tiger shark... was not pleased with me moving ! Nikon d100 and 12-24mm
Not enough current for his taste D200/10.5mm
Cape crab on Ecklonia maxima kelp
Cape Peninsula Cape Town
Nikon F-100 with 16mm lens
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great temperate waters wide angle Geoff
A beautiful clear day at shark point....
taken off Pemba Island, Tanzania
Frogfish
A beautiful moment between my wife and this huge "Green Turtle"... :O)
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You won't find one of these at the bottom of a Swiss Lake! Should the model be looking into camera?
anemone city, Daedelus reef
A Mostelle (phycis phycis) with the wreck of the Teti sunk 1930 in the background. Komiza Vis.
Eyes to the lens. A diver and a Red Scorpion fish (scorpaena scrofa) On the wreck of the Vassilios at a depth 47m. Sunk 1939 Komiza Vis.
Yellow Frog Fish in Crash Boat Piers. First time I post in this Category. Canon G9, INon WA and Dome.
My new found love for wide angle photography since I'm using the 10.5 it became macro wide angle D200 /10.5mm
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Lionfish looking into the camera, Sony P5
lizard fish
Trumpetfish in Bonaire.
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