Cocodrile with snorkel, Gardens of the Queen Cuba

"Seltzer Reef" - Divers' bubbles stream past colorful sponges and coral hanging off Babylon dive site. The dive boat can be seen above the sponges.

Octavio and Marylin, Playa del Carmen México

Pipehorse Portrait - My first pipehorse! This little guy is less than an inch long, and is very hard to spot with an untrained eye. The background is white from my strobes reflecting off the sand.

Stingray Sandbar is a special place to photograph on Grand Cayman! I have lots of photographs to go through from shooting there the other day, here’s one to start.

A Nurse Shark on the prowl.

"Navy Night" - Carrie Dutchak surfaces following a dusk dive. The lights of Grand Cayman glow behind her.

silky sharks F

"Chiaroscuro" - I photographed this arrow crab using one strobe to give strong shadows and light. The title is a reference to the Italian word for this kind of lighting, found in Renaissance paintings.
3rd place Monthly HotShots Shortlisted!

French Angelfish, Belize

Caribean Reef Sharks, Gardens of the Queen Cuba

"Sweep And Swirl"
Sponges and gorgonians swirl. I photographed this image using a slow shutter speed while simultaneously swimming forward, zooming the lens and spinning the camera. No Photoshop.

Amazing Cahuama in the Reef, Half Moon Caye Belize

Adolescent male and calf. taken under government permit

"Sweeping Shadows" - A brightly-colored flagfin glass blenny rests on coral. Shot with one strobe on an angle to provide texture. (No snoot.)

Dos Ojos cavern, Playa del Carmen México

image from cave diving in Mexico

The eyes have it.

Honeycomb cowfish

Silky Shark with sky, Gardens of the Queen

"On Patrol" - A Caribbean reef shark sweeps in for a closer view as it patrols a coral reef on the East End of the island.

Squid face, Gardens of the Queen, Cuba
Shortlisted!

Caribbean Reef Shark photographed on the wreck of the Austin Smith in the Bahamas.

Squids in the dark, Gardens of the Queen, Cuba

"Under The Dock" - A school of needlefish race under a dock in Bonaire. Photographed with a slow shutter speed while panning in existing light. The black shadows at left are the wobbly view of the dock piling seen through the water.
Shortlisted!

Spermie taken under permit

Shark in Snell's window
Reef shark shot at Tiger Beach.