Cuttlefish among the rocks
Palm Mar, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.

Cleaning shrimp in front of her home, a clup tip anemone

Impressive set of teeth!!!
Friendly Tiger Moray on Palm Mar Cave, Tenerife
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe

Green Turtle in the descend.
Photo shot on El Puertito, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
Shortlisted!

A common cuttlefish with a bit of special illumination...

A night active tube anemone. There's a large field of these beautyful animals covering the sand in 8-12 m depth in front of Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote.

Tigermoray, manipulated
Cropped and different filters i PS.

Comb seastar, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

THE EYE. Eye of a cuttle fish. I found this girl putting her eggs into a very tiny crevice in the rocks, and after a moment to get sure that I wouldn't harm her, she continued with her work allowing me to approach very close

SYMMETRY. The feathers of a spiral worm, extended into the current to catch plancton.
Shortlisted!

THRILLER. A few wooden rests of a wreck in the south of Lanzarote. This picture was part of the winning portfolio at the Open Fotosub Lanzarote 2008, and was shot in b/w. It has no PS adjustments, only size, sharpen and sign.

ZOOMING. This is another picture from the winning portfolio in Eilat, Israel, past november. It's just as it came out of the camera, without any PS effect or adjustment, except size, of course.
Shortlisted!

SPOTLIGHT. Canarian seastar (Narcissia canariensis) inside a cave in Lanzarote.
2nd place Monthly HotShots Shortlisted!

Atlantis
One of the splendid volcanic rockformations and my wife as a model on the divesite called Atlantis on Tenerife. Would have liked to have used two strobes on this photo.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
Shortlisted!

Bubble collision !!
The turtle actually liked bubbles and ate them. Maybe then it didn't have to go up for air.
El Puertito, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.

This is not a night dive !
I wanted to make the beautiful patterns and colours stand out, so I chose to make the background black.
Photo shot on El Puertito, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.

The eye in the sand. Greater weever buried in the sand waiting for some "food" passing by.

PAINTED. Center of an anemone, wit a very special colour pattern, and on top of it a little bit special illumination.
Shortlisted!

Friendly octopus posing.
Photo shot on Palm Mar divesite, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
Shortlisted!

Bumblebee shrimp, Gnatophyllum elegans. A very common species, but difficut to see, and more difficult to find one well placed to take a good picture of it.

Nudibranch in Tenerife.
I like the colours of this one and the flash also shows the colours on the otherwise barren rock. Unfortunately I hadn't the macro lens on, so the image is not pinsharp. Hope that you like it anyway.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm.

Caulerpa, a very beautyful algae. I wonder why there are only very few such pictures on contests or forum. May be swimming things are more interesting...

Take off !
Another friendly green turtle with a friendly diver on El Puertito, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.

Light and shadow. Anemone (Telmatactis cricoides) with selective illumination.

Dangerzone !!!
Fiercelooking animals. However the homo sapiens is probably the more fearsome.
Animals shot in Egypt, Tenerife, Indonesia and the Maldives. The diver is my wife (not fearsome :-) ). The background is Palm Mar cave on Tenerife.

Through to 2010 awards final round judging

The Phantom. A small scorpionfish with selective illumination.
Shortlisted!

Mr Wrinkle,
He came close, so even with the 14 mm, he quite fill out the frame. El Puertito, Tenerife.
Olympus E330, 14-54mm, single Ikelite DS125 strobe.
Shortlisted!