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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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Smaller subjects typically 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5cm) shot on macro settings or with macro equipment that are NOT MOVING usually on the bottom (i.e. between 1:1 and 1:3)
Death sentence ? A beautiful tridachna clam tucked in the reef at Pizion Pass in Truk Lagoon. It appears that the surrounding coral will eventually overtake the poor clam.
I took this close-up shot of a brightly colored Freckled Hawkfish in Palau, Micronesia.
Go away...no one's home!
This seahorse and its partner lived in Paradise 1 ( Mabul, Borneo ) for a long time nice and shallow. Many a deco stop was spent trying for something different with the last few shots of a roll .
Gold Medal Gold Medal 2004
Winner Monthly HotShots

editor's comments

Editor's Comment
Roger explains one secret of u/w photographs like this - many rolls of film! Well done!
Taken at Mina al Fahal island, Oman. Motormarine IIex. 3:1 macro
Sea horse in an aquarium, Monaco 2004. Cute and alone :-)
taken on night dive at maeda point okinawa japan
Bernard L'Hermitte; Picture take in Med, Corsica; Canon G5 with Ikelite Housing and DS50;
Striped fang blenny , taken in Sangalaki , Indonesian Borneo . I found this cute little fella on a cleaning station while having a break from shooting the Mantas which visit this island in huge numbers to feed. Loved the flower garden all around him.
Arceye Hawkfish taken in Palau w/Nikon 90s w/105mm lens, Aquatica housing & Ike Substrobe 200.
Flabellina affinis - Mar mediterraneo - Italy - Isola di Giannutri - Nikonos III macro 1:1
Social feather dusters. Taken in Roatan w/Nikon N90s, Aquatica housing, 105mm lens & Ike Substrobe 200
Aragosta - S.Marinella (Civitavecchia - Italy )
Stingless Jellyfish in Palau, Micronesia. February 2004. It was resting on my hand and I snapped the picture. It wasnt till later that I found how much I really liked the shot.
Cayman friends. Taken with NikV, 35mm, close-up diopter & Ike Substrobe 200.
Shrimp, picture taken during a night dive using Fuji FinePix F700
Smooth Turban / Kelp Snail (Norrisia norrisii). These snail live on kelp feeding on the growth that covers the kelp. They work their way up to the top, fall off and begin again at the bottom.
Thumbprint taken in Grand Cayman w/NikV, 1:1 macro, Nik105 strobe
This picture of billowy orange cup coral was taken during a night dive in Bonaire. There was a fair amount of surge by the dock where this photo was taken, as evidenced by the direction of the polyps.
Christmas tree worm (Spirographis spallanzanii), shot in Porto Pim, Faial island, Azores, Portugal, using Nikonos V, 35mm UW-Nikkor lens, 1:3 extension tube, Nikonos SB-105 strobe.
Nudibranch(s?) in Marsa Alam. Taken with Olympus E-20 in Titan housing with macro lense and two Sea&Sea YS-90DX strobes.
Scorpion fish lying on a wreck in Malta. Taken using Fuji F700
Octopus on a night dive in Cozumel, Mexico. Picture was taken with an Olympus C-50 Digital Camera in an Ikelite Housing with an Ikelite DS-50 Strobe.
Tubeworm
Moray Eel w/h shrimp taken on a night dive in southern Egypt
Purple feather dusters. Shot with Canon Digital Rebel in Aquatica housing and 14mm Sigma lense. Nassau, Bahamas 2004
Yellow frogfish, tken in Kona,HI witha D-100
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