"Blushing" - A triplefin blenny poses for its close up on a pink sponge.
Shortlisted!

28mm - Experimenting with a different lens for underwater photogaphs. I love how the edges blur, drawing the eye to both the center of the frame and the subject. This is one of my first forays with this lens, I like the potential!

"Sigourney's Alien" - A golden roughhead blenny's mighty, tiny teeth appear to project from its body like an Alien. This fish is actually quite sweet, but I used a SMC-1 to focus on just the teeth, making it look fierce.

Seahorse curling itself around a juvenile Filefish which glows inside it with the diveboat in the background
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Little guy in Little Cayman

Ex-USS Kittiwake on her side after Tropical Storm Nate (2017)

"Searching For Mating Turtles At Sunset" - When the green turtles were mating this summer, I went to their beach at all different times of day to try for unique light. Split shot as my husband spots and looks out for me, at sunset.

Giant Anemone
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Saddled Blenny

Found these two floating below the dive boat while I was coming up from a dive. The juvenile filefish looks like the wings of the seahorse, making it an underwater pegasus
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"Peek-A-Blue" - A blue chromis peers out from behind a gorgonian on a reef at night.
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"The Most Beautiful Reef #2" - Gorgeous, colourful corals and sponges grow off the pinnacle that is Ghost Mountain. One of the most beautiful dive sites on Grand Cayman!

"Abstract Lion"
A juvenile lionfish that was hiding against an overhang enabled me to experiment with one of my favorite techniques: shallow depth of field!
Shortlisted!

Acrobat
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ghost shrimp

"Deep Breaths" - A green sea turtle breaths at the surface after mating. This was the male of a pair of mating turtles that were repeatedly fending off a rival male, leaving little opportunity to catch their breath.

ghostly

"Melo Yello" - Portrait of a miniature melo as it crawls over seaweed. A second melo can just be seen in the background.

"Where's The Wreck?"- A diver hovers in sunbeams over empty sand where the Kittiwake shipwreck used to be. I took this photograph in October last year just after the ship was moved by Hurricane Nate. Photographed with a Magic Filter on the lens.

Southern Stingray

Through to 2018 awards final round judging

"Sunset Squid" - A squid checks out the camera as sunset light ripples on the surface just above.

"Christmas Fishes To You" - A sharpnose goby rests next to Christmas Tree worms. Meanwhile, blue tangs are cast in silhouette as they enter stage right.

Miniature Melo - I wanted to show this 1/2" miniature melo in its environment. I floated below it in order to include both the seaweed its sitting on, and the seawall (in soft focus) in the background. Photographing macro in surge was...fun

"Enchanted Shipwreck" - Double exposure from inside the Nicholson shipwreck looking out. I photographed this in camera with sequential exposures. I love how the image draws the eye through and into the back of the scene.

"Triplefin In Soft Pink" - What A Difference Strobe Use Makes! #1 of 2: Both photographs are shot with the exact same settings, but by just a change in strobe set up, the background is lit a soft pink.

"Triplefin In Contrast" - What A Difference Strobe Use Makes! #2 of 2: Both photographs are shot with the exact same settings, but by just a change in strobe set-up, the background is black and the image has more contrast.
Shortlisted!

Barracuda on a Shipwreck