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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
Warty Seastar Puget Sound, WA, U.S.A. by Tom Radio
Warty Seastar
Puget Sound, WA, U.S.A.
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 30, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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perfect posing... by Claudia Weber-Gebert
perfect posing...
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 29, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Adriatic Sea Croatia
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Hawaiian eel, Honolua Bay, Maui. by Alison Ranheim
Hawaiian eel, Honolua Bay, Maui.
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 29, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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[:b:]Felimare picta[:/b:] by Francesco Pacienza
Felimare picta
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 28, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Electric soft coral by Steven Miller
Electric soft coral
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Flores Sea Indonesia
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Quite the yawn from this Black Grouper at Blue Pride Reef... by Steven Anderson
Quite the yawn from this Black Grouper at Blue Pride Reef - Bahamas
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Precise strobe positioning is the key to this excellent photo, showing us the huge mouth of this Grouper in all its glory.
21 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Atlantic (North American coastal) Bahamas
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Taken while I was wreck diving in the Philippines. The se... by Alex Suh
Taken while I was wreck diving in the Philippines. The sea turtle came flying past me and I only had time to get one shot off and fortunately timing and positioning was right where its fins were completely spread out as if coming in for a landing.
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 24, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Playing with Tokina 10-17 by Francesco Pacienza
Playing with Tokina 10-17
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 24, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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Red by Walter Bassi
Red
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 24, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Tyrrhenian Sea Italy
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Red One. by Sergey Lisitsyn
Red One.
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 22, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Egypt
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Whaleshark with snorkels, Isla Contoy Mexico by Alejandro Topete
Whaleshark with snorkels, Isla Contoy Mexico
20 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 22, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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Great Nurse Shark Close UP by Alejandro Topete
Great Nurse Shark Close UP
30 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Mexico
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French Angelfish at Salt Pier in Bonaire by Marteyne Van Well
French Angelfish at Salt Pier in Bonaire
18 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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A Whitetip reefshark under some boulders. by Tomas Woren
A Whitetip reefshark under some boulders.
14 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Bali Sea Indonesia
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Seascape at Six Senses Laamu, Laamu Atoll by Marteyne Van Well
Seascape at Six Senses Laamu, Laamu Atoll
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 16, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Seascape at Six Senses Laamu by Marteyne Van Well
Seascape at Six Senses Laamu
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 15, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Indian Ocean Maldives
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Took this shot in Monterey, CA of a few Metriduims. Visib... by Henry Schmitz
Took this shot in Monterey, CA of a few Metriduims. Visibility was poor so had to get creative with lighting.
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date posted posted: Friday, August 15, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: United States
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our spine home by Marc Van Den Broeck
our spine home
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Friday, August 15, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Life is the flower by Taotao Yang
Life is the flower
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Spotted Trunkfish by Tina Norris
Spotted Trunkfish
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Nemo and sea anemone by Taotao Yang
Nemo and sea anemone
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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Red clouds by Marc Van Den Broeck
Red clouds
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, August 11, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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just a lion fish by Simon Dyer
just a lion fish
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 10, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Octopus and diver by Gleb Tolstov
Octopus and diver
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28 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 10, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Red Sea Israel
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Blooming... by Nadya Kulagina
Blooming...
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 10, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Philippine Sea Philippines
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They are all together… (block of sweetlips in a row) in Raja by Nihat Cine
They are all together… (block of sweetlips in a row) in Raja
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 9, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Halmahera Sea Indonesia
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[:b:]Seahorse[:/b:] by Francesco Pacienza
Seahorse
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, August 9, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Mediterranean Sea Italy
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