ringed snail crawling over a bunch of little cup corals right next to the Breakwater at Monterey

A BIG SMILE from an Eagle Ray, @ North Seymor, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Truk Lagoon (Chuuk), Micronesia. Diver on wreck of Truk Lagoon. ©Amanda Cotton

Majestic

gramps or gremlin

This is an Undulated Moray Eel prowling the reef at night on the Kona Coast, Island of Hawaii (Big Island). Equipment and filmed used for this dive: Nikonos III w/28MM Dual Strobes & Kodachrome 64.

Southern hemisphere humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Mother and calf - synchronizing

Through to 2008 awards final round judging

Snortin' bull sea lion, Los Islotes, La Paz, Mexico. Canon 400D. Came around a boulder and surprised (and was surprised by) this bull. He was telling me to get out of his territory. I did, but not before taking his picture.

"Honu"

School of cownose rays at Cabo Pulmo marine park

Found this small sculpin underneath a pipeline that ran out from the shoreline. I was suprised he actually let me get this close to get the shot

Big-Scale Soldierfish at Molokini Crator, Maui. Shot with a Canon 30D (Ikelite housing), 17-40/4 (at 34mm) and an Ikelite DS-160 in about 70' of water. Desaturated in PS Elements 6.
Shortlisted!

Tambja nudibranch from Poor Knights. <> <> <> Canon G9, Inon UCL-165

River in the sea

Wolf island. Galapagos.

Kelp beds
This shot was taken near the Breakwater in monterey, ca.
this was taken around 20 ft down as I was descending with a canon a570is w/o a strobe. I loved how the light changed to an eery green as you went down below the kelp.

Turtle & Steel Pompano.
The Pinnacle, Wolf, Galapagos.
10.5mm.

Grey Nurse Shark (aka Raggedtooth or Sandtiger Shark), Carcharias taurus, South Solitary Island, NSW, Australia

a different perspective

Marine mammals are always a challenge to photograph. Shot topside from a boat, in this photo a sea otter female shares a crab with her pup.

Please don't touch the Martian Damselfish, they're hot!

The Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle. "Honu". This shot was taken at a popular dive site on Oahu's West shore called Electric Beach. You can expect to see turtles there on every dive. Got to love it...

White-tip reef shark at Molokini Crator, Maui. Shot with a Canon 30D in an Ikelite housing, with a 17-40/4 and a DS-160 strobe in about 65' of water.

Inquisitive sealion.
Cape Marshall, Galapagos.
10.5mm.

"Blue Holes" in Koror, Palau.

Crown of Thorns Seastar

Still dry...Nate Yeomans