"Evening Romance"
Two hamlets in a spawning clutch on Grand Cayman.
2nd place Monthly HotShots Shortlisted!
Through to 2018 awards final round judging

Something different: special technique circular shot with Tokina 10-17mm and cropped sensor! Colorful feather duster worms and fire coral in front of the wheelhouse of the Doc Polson shipwreck.
Shortlisted!

"Buzzing The Tower" - A giant loggerhead in flight. I swam hard to catch up to this beauty and get this shot.

“Smokestack Silhouette” - A diver is framed within the smokestack on the Kittiwake shipwreck.

Grand Cayman - The compass on the Kittiwake, which is level to the seabed, shows just how much the Kittiwake is lying on its side. Model: Alice Gostick
Shortlisted!

Gentle Sway

Divers explore "Orange Canyon", a dive site named for its gorgeous, bright orange elephant ear sponges. I dialed up the shutter speed a bit to make the blue a darker shade, in order to provide more contrast against the orange.

A large wave pounds Northwest Point in Grand Cayman.

Midnight Parrotfish in the caverns of Snapper Hole in Grand Cayman.
Shortlisted!

Defying Gravity

"Electric Yellow" - Detail of a queen angelfish's scales and pectoral fin.
Shortlisted!

"Christmas Double Exposure" - Teaching myself double exposures in camera. Whoo hoo! I shot consecutive photographs in multiple exposure mode.

"Psychedelic Hydroids" - A pair of hydroids photographed against a homemade background. No Photoshop. The background was held by my dive buddy and did not touch any sea life.
Shortlisted!

"Icarus" - In early morning light, a hawksbill turtle is cast in silhouette as it cruises over Grand Cayman's deep wall.

Coral polyps reflection captured in a Nassau Grouper eye.

Until next time

Snorkeling on Sunset Reef on the East Side of Grand Cayman while ice and snow covered the ground back home in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Eye of French Angel Fish
Shortlisted!

“Ghost Ship” - The ex-USS Kittiwake appears as if from a ghostly fog. I also call this "Kittiwake In High-Key".

Smiling moray

Sunset at the Sandbar, the calm returns!

French Angel giving me the eye.....

This tiny shrimp was clinging tightly to the end of a purple-tipped anemone during a strong current.
Shortlisted!

"Black Beauty" - Because of the seahorse's dark color, I chose to silhouette it with backlight, and frame it within the brightly-colored sealife it was hiding in.
Shortlisted!

“Swarm”
Silversides look like a swarm of bees as they race into a swim-through.
Shortlisted!

Cruising

"Christmas Comparison" - I photographed these same Christmas tree worms as an example for single strobe position. Shot with identical settings but moving the strobe further back to create more shadows, and hence, texture!