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large, brightly colored fish eating anemone. Although these are known to only live on rocks, this massive guy was found on a sandy floor. After the dive I talked to one of the local dive shop owners, he told me that the anemone is around 200 yrs old
By Joe Platko
posted Monday, March 30, 2009
38 votes

Shot of an anemone found off South Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. This was one of the better dives I've had there in awhile, with the vis around 40 ft. The shot was taken with a canon a570, single inon d-2000s strobe and inon fisheye lens
By Joe Platko
posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009
28 votes

neon shrimp/ common shrimp that was found at lovers point in monterey, ca. vis that day was only around 10 ft so the entire time i decided to shoot macro. shot with a canon a570is and inon close up lens, and a single inon d-2000 strobe
By Joe Platko
posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
22 votes

HOLY $#!& my friend getting extremely excited about finding a large lingcod at the end of our dive at south monastery. you can see his expression a little bit better when viewed large
By Joe Platko
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009
19 votes

aggressive cabezon I came across while diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. I think he saw his reflection in the inon fisheye lens because rather than swim away from me he started sizing up the camera.
By Joe Platko
posted Sunday, November 22, 2009
19 votes

Feather duster worm found while snorkeling just south of the Tugboat in Curacao. This was shot by a canon a570 while in macro mode and using an additional inon macro lens. No cropping was used
By Joe Platko
posted Friday, January 16, 2009
17 votes

After 3 years of waiting I finally got to shoot a stinging nettle bloom in Monterey, although I wasn't able to get a backlit shot like i wanted due to weather issues. But it sure was fun diving with jellyfish all around you
By Joe Platko
posted Sunday, September 13, 2009
17 votes

kelp beds of Monastery Beach at a time when there was finally almost no surge
By Joe Platko
posted Monday, October 20, 2008
16 votes

My friend checking out a rock wall near the Breakwater in Monterey, Ca. Despite the storm that had been hitting us for the past couple of days, the vis was around 50 ft., so I was excited to try out my new inon fisheye lens for the first time.
By Joe Platko
posted Sunday, January 25, 2009
16 votes

wide angle shot of a nice stalk of kelp using my new inon ufl-165 lens. The vis on this day was supposed to only be around 10 ft, but we somehow got lucky and got around 30. this was taken off the known breakwater in Monterey
By Joe Platko
posted Tuesday, February 3, 2009
16 votes
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Shot taken last May at the metridium fields in Monterey, ... by Joe Platko
Shot taken last May at the metridium fields in Monterey, California. The visibility wasn't too great, but the bloom brought in the nettles making for some fun backgrounds. shot with a canon 7d, tokina 10-17mm lens, and 2 inon strobes
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date posted posted: Monday, April 18, 2011
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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One of the large covered boulders located near the drop o... by Joe Platko
One of the large covered boulders located near the drop off at North Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. the image was taken with a canon 7D, tokina fisheye lens, and an inon d-2000s strobe
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date posted posted: Monday, April 19, 2010
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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One of the many curious seals that came to check us out o... by Joe Platko
One of the many curious seals that came to check us out on our dive at Point Lobos Marine Reserve. Although the visibility was pretty crappy, having these guys play around with us was really fun! taken w/ canon 7d, tokina fisheye, and inon strobe
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date posted posted: Monday, March 8, 2010
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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aggressive cabezon I came across while diving at Monaster... by Joe Platko
aggressive cabezon I came across while diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. I think he saw his reflection in the inon fisheye lens because rather than swim away from me he started sizing up the camera.
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Shot of an anemone found off South Monastery Beach in Car... by Joe Platko
Shot of an anemone found off South Monastery Beach in Carmel, Ca. This was one of the better dives I've had there in awhile, with the vis around 40 ft. The shot was taken with a canon a570, single inon d-2000s strobe and inon fisheye lens
28 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Sun star we found along the breakwater that was eating a ... by Joe Platko
Sun star we found along the breakwater that was eating a sea nettle. I was able to get the shot right as a swell was passing to get a shot of the underside of its arms
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date posted posted: Monday, September 21, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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After 3 years of waiting I finally got to shoot a stingin... by Joe Platko
After 3 years of waiting I finally got to shoot a stinging nettle bloom in Monterey, although I wasn't able to get a backlit shot like i wanted due to weather issues. But it sure was fun diving with jellyfish all around you
17 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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one of the countless hermissenda nudibranchs we found dur... by Joe Platko
one of the countless hermissenda nudibranchs we found during our dive along the breakwater in monterey. there were literally hundreds of nudibranchs in one area where kelp was slowly being decomposed, which caused a lot of backscatter
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date posted posted: Friday, August 14, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Pacific United States
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great dive at south monastery beach for the NCUPS 2009 co... by Joe Platko
great dive at south monastery beach for the NCUPS 2009 competition. If you look closely you can see the silhouettes of tons of small fish in the left corner where the larger beam is. the only problem was the amount of surge.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 15, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Metridium fields near the Breakwater in Monterey, Ca. Alt... by Joe Platko
Metridium fields near the Breakwater in Monterey, Ca. Although I have dove there many times, this was the first time I was able to get some photographs of the colonies of metridium anemones.
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date posted posted: Friday, May 8, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Anemone down in 80 ft off monastery beach. The divers are... by Joe Platko
Anemone down in 80 ft off monastery beach. The divers are part of the adv. open water/rescue class from CSUMB, and this was one of the required deep dives. The visibility was quite epic that day
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 26, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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we had an amazing day at monastery beach today, with vis ... by Joe Platko
we had an amazing day at monastery beach today, with vis around 80 ft. this was as we were coming back from dropping down the canyon. it just so happens both divers ended up looking the way of the sunburst.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Pacific United States
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rockfish resting vertically on a rock at Monastery Beach ... by Joe Platko
rockfish resting vertically on a rock at Monastery Beach near Carmel, Ca. This place has to be my favorite dive site for the monterey area as the kelp forest is amazing here
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date posted posted: Monday, April 6, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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large, brightly colored fish eating anemone. Although the... by Joe Platko
large, brightly colored fish eating anemone. Although these are known to only live on rocks, this massive guy was found on a sandy floor. After the dive I talked to one of the local dive shop owners, he told me that the anemone is around 200 yrs old
38 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, March 30, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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very large sheep crab crawling about near the metridium f... by Joe Platko
very large sheep crab crawling about near the metridium fields at the breakwater, Monterey. I was angling for a different shot, but when i noticed my friend swimming by I changed positions to get him going by in the background
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Pacific United States
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HOLY $#!& my friend getting extremely excited about findi... by Joe Platko
HOLY $#!& my friend getting extremely excited about finding a large lingcod at the end of our dive at south monastery. you can see his expression a little bit better when viewed large
19 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
date posted category: Humorous
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Lone anemone on a boulder among the kelp forest of South ... by Joe Platko
Lone anemone on a boulder among the kelp forest of South Monastery Beach, Ca. I think this is my new favorite dive site, theres just so much different things to to explore while down there
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 7, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Moon jelly floating in the kelp at south Monastery Beach,... by Joe Platko
Moon jelly floating in the kelp at south Monastery Beach, with Point Lobos in the background. This was my first ever dive at the south side, as well as my first over/under shot.
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date posted posted: Thursday, February 5, 2009
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Pacific United States
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wide angle shot of a nice stalk of kelp using my new inon... by Joe Platko
wide angle shot of a nice stalk of kelp using my new inon ufl-165 lens. The vis on this day was supposed to only be around 10 ft, but we somehow got lucky and got around 30. this was taken off the known breakwater in Monterey
16 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Storm hitting Pacific Grove, Ca. Despite heavy western sw... by Joe Platko
Storm hitting Pacific Grove, Ca. Despite heavy western swells, the diving in Monterey that weekend was surprisingly good, with vis around 50 ft.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
date posted category: Topside (above water but marine related)
date posted location: Pacific United States
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My friend checking out a rock wall near the Breakwater in... by Joe Platko
My friend checking out a rock wall near the Breakwater in Monterey, Ca. Despite the storm that had been hitting us for the past couple of days, the vis was around 50 ft., so I was excited to try out my new inon fisheye lens for the first time.
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 25, 2009
date posted category: Wide Angle - Divers
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Kelp greenling close-up taken from a night dive off the B... by Joe Platko
Kelp greenling close-up taken from a night dive off the Breakwater in Monterey, Ca. This guy was shot using an inon ucl-165 macro lens (which I lost on this dive frown ) and lighted with an inon d-2000s strobe and my small dive light used as a focus lit
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Feather duster worm found while snorkeling just south of ... by Joe Platko
Feather duster worm found while snorkeling just south of the Tugboat in Curacao. This was shot by a canon a570 while in macro mode and using an additional inon macro lens. No cropping was used
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date posted posted: Friday, January 16, 2009
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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hidden octopus that I found while snorkeling only about 1... by Joe Platko
hidden octopus that I found while snorkeling only about 10 ft from the beach at night while on vacation in Curacao. This was actually my first time ever seeing one of these, so i was pretty excited
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 14, 2008
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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I just wanted to turn the original picture into a b&w but... by Joe Platko
I just wanted to turn the original picture into a b&w but since i was using ambient light only it became a lot harder to work with, trying to separate all the different blue hues out. It ended up almost looking like an i/r pic to me.
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date posted posted: Friday, December 12, 2008
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Netherlands Antilles
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Close up of a jelly that almost landed straight on my fac... by Joe Platko
Close up of a jelly that almost landed straight on my face as I was ascending to take a picture of a sunburst through some kelp. Unfortunately I had the ISO at 200 so it came out a lot grainier than I would have liked, but at least it came out smile
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date posted posted: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Pacific United States
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Fish eating anemone that was found off of northern Monast... by Joe Platko
Fish eating anemone that was found off of northern Monastery Beach, Ca. It amazing how big these things get!!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Pacific United States
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