The picture of Gobius niger was taken in may during the start of the breeding season. After laying the eggs, the female disapears. The male stays with the aggs till they hatch.

Ballan Wrasse up close

Male Lumpsucker d70 20mm lens

Nikon D300, 18-55, DS-51 substrobe, Ikelite Housing

Big Conger Eel, found this guy in 8 metres of water

My first Flabellina lineata in the Netherlands. They are not often seen here, with thanks to Pater van Bragt for showing me this one.

My first Facelina auriculata of 2010, spotted yesterday at Goes, at a dept of 15 meters.

Aeolidiella Glauca

When the watertemperature in the Oosterschelde reaches 12 degrees the Cuttlefish is coming. For a lot of divers the reason to dive there now.

Picture taken down under, in a small canal close to my home. As long as I didn´t move visibility was OK ;-)

model try out !

UFO !!!!!!
These jellyfish looks like an Ufo in space. The backscatter are the stars, I didn’t remove it because I like the effect.

My budy Frans taking pictures of Cyclopterus lumpus. I was iritated that he tooks pictures at the same moment I try to photograph him.... Then I realized he is using slave flashes....

Cyclopterus lumpus can be found in the beginning of each year in our Oosterschelde. The coloured males stay in the neighbourhood of the eggs for about 6 weeks. After that they disappear to deeper waters. Notice the green colour of our Northsee.

The first time I ever saw Syngnathus acus mating, last weekend in our Oosterschelde. Unfortunately I had my macro lens on the camera :-(
Shortlisted!

Ofcourse we have flowers above and below the water in the Netherlands.

Short spined scorpion fish. Farne islands. D200, 20mm.

These Cyclopterus lumpus was trapped. Hard to leave him there...

Our cold waters are green ofcourse. These Wakame can be impressive when there is some sunshine.

The Hemigrapsus penicillatus last weekend in water of 4 degrees C. Nice camouflage.

Coning tower of U12 swept by juvenile whiting. 48 metres down 4 degee c. Nikon D70 in sea and sea housing with 2 strobes

Green sea urchin crawling arround. Normally found between rocks.

Dahlia anemone

The bottom of the Oosterschelde is at several places covered with brittlestars. A lot of divers don't even look at them but the colours can be very beautiful.

This image of a Lobster was taken on a day with very good visability. Normally they don't walk around during daytime but on this day a lot of them where on the move.

small and resting

The picture of Facelina auriculata was taken at the divesite Zeelandbrug. Is was present for several weeks and is not common in the Oosterschelde. Unfortunately the dive site is destroyed by the dumping of steel slag.