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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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"Kiss-me" 105/2.8 +10 Subsee by Gaetano Gargiulo
"Kiss-me"
105/2.8 +10 Subsee
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, April 19, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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I spy..... Nikon d7100 nauticam housing tokina 10-17mm by Bradley Kerslake
I spy.....
Nikon d7100 nauticam housing tokina 10-17mm
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, April 16, 2015
date posted category: Temperate Waters
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Pygmy pipe-horse fish (male) by Gaetano Gargiulo
Pygmy pipe-horse fish (male)
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, March 26, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Softness, taken at Flinders pier, Victoria, by David Haintz
Softness, taken at Flinders pier, Victoria,
0 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, March 15, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Unusual pygmy pipe horse almost entirely blue by Gaetano Gargiulo
Unusual pygmy pipe horse almost entirely blue
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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lovely female of Pygmy Pipe-horse fish (105 micro +10 sub... by Gaetano Gargiulo
lovely female of Pygmy Pipe-horse fish (105 micro +10 subsee)
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, February 28, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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mating stink-fishes (or dragonets) by Gaetano Gargiulo
mating stink-fishes (or dragonets)
15 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Pencil sea urchin mouth by Gaetano Gargiulo
Pencil sea urchin mouth
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Dinner time: A blue dragon feasting on its favorite "prey" by Gaetano Gargiulo
Dinner time: A blue dragon feasting on its favorite "prey"
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Juvenile Sydney pipe-horse fish shoot with the 105micro a... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Juvenile Sydney pipe-horse fish shoot with the 105micro and +10 subsee no crop
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 25, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Full figure portrait of Pygmy Pipe-horse. by Gaetano Gargiulo
Full figure portrait of Pygmy Pipe-horse.
10 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Pajama striped cuttlefish mating dance. They swim with a ... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Pajama striped cuttlefish mating dance. They swim with a fantastic cork-screw movement until they are done or one of the 2 is buried under the sand!!!
3 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, January 11, 2015
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Xmas Pygmy pipe-horse. This specie can be found only in S... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Xmas Pygmy pipe-horse. This specie can be found only in Sydney area and only around Xmas :-) to take this hot I had to help my 105micro with the subsee +10
12 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, December 28, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Pigmy pipe-horse. This kind of sea horse is ~30mm and can... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Pigmy pipe-horse. This kind of sea horse is ~30mm and can be found only in a small area in NSW
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2014
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Roaming unusual grounds... this Flabellina was on kelp m... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Roaming unusual grounds... this Flabellina was on kelp moving very fast
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 17, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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using 3 strobes I was able to obtain an X-ray effect on t... by Gaetano Gargiulo
using 3 strobes I was able to obtain an X-ray effect on this small nudi
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 10, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Tangerino-Tino... our new net keeper, Mosman's people can... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Tangerino-Tino... our new net keeper, Mosman's people can sleep well with such monster guarding the shore...
6 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, November 3, 2014
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Tip Top ... ! HMSNZ Canterbury, New Zealand. Canon G10-is... by Stefan Follows
Tip Top ... ! HMSNZ Canterbury, New Zealand. Canon G10-iso400-f2.8-1/25
8 Votes
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date posted posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Tasman Sea New Zealand
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this guy was getting angry at me and every time I was rai... by Gaetano Gargiulo
this guy was getting angry at me and every time I was raising my camera it was raising its tentacles...maybe thought I was a competitor??
9 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, October 20, 2014
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Beautiful white striped anemones. by Matthew Smith
Beautiful white striped anemones.
5 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, October 12, 2014
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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The bluebottle cnidaria is an amazingly beautiful colony ... by Matthew Smith
The bluebottle cnidaria is an amazingly beautiful colony of creatures. I wanted to demonstrate this with careful lighting.
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Editor's Comment
Very impressive lighting.
31 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 11, 2014
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Big face... by Gaetano Gargiulo
Big face...
7 Votes
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date posted posted: Saturday, October 11, 2014
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
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'The flame' Very little I ad to add the +10 on the top o... by Gaetano Gargiulo
'The flame'
Very little I ad to add the +10 on the top of my 105 micro
13 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, October 8, 2014
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Blue Moon ... Moon Jellyfish - Aurelia aurita. Poor Knigh... by Stefan Follows
Blue Moon ... Moon Jellyfish - Aurelia aurita. Poor Knights, New Zealand. G10-iso100-f4-1/100
4 Votes
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date posted posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea New Zealand
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"Feeling blue" by Gaetano Gargiulo
"Feeling blue"
11 Votes
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date posted posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2014
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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Crimson red Waratah Anemones at low tide in a rock pool d... by Matthew Smith
Crimson red Waratah Anemones at low tide in a rock pool during a misty halo sunrise, lit with snooted strobes. The bird in the sun halo was more luck than judgement!!
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27 Votes
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date posted posted: Monday, August 18, 2014
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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An over/under of a bluebottle (physalia physalis) I love ... by Matthew Smith
An over/under of a bluebottle (physalia physalis) I love how the pneumatophore (air bladder) of this bluebottle caught the light from my underwater strobe and lit up like a fluorescent tube!! Amazing!
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Editor's Comment
This is a clear winner, due to the perfect balanced lighting used here, matching the scene and the subject in every aspect. Stunning shot!
49 Votes
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 17, 2014
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date posted location: Tasman Sea Australia
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