Sunset at Blacksea

Turtle against the sun. Olympus CW 7070

Eye of an octopus ( octopus vulgaris; common octopus ). Canon 40D, Ikelite DS125 strobe & Canon 60mm EF-s macro lens.

Flying Flatworm ( Nightdive )

Bahri - Mogan Lake
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A 1,5 cm small "friend". Took me ages to take at least one good pic of him, because he was swimming around all the time & looking to me like he say "don't you dare !!" ;-) CANON 40D, 60mm macro lens, IKELITE DS125

CANON 40D, 60mm CANON Makro lens, Ikelite Housing + IKELITE DS125 strobe. Kas/Antalya 2008

This happens, if you have your 60mm macro lens prepared for a photo dive : Always the big buddies are coming by, then ;-) Anyway: I hope, that's the right category - close up shot of a common sea turtle ( caretta caretta ).

Phylangia colony ( sorry, I've found only the latin name for it ). From the diveplace "Canyon" ( left side of the wall at 12,1 meter depht ) in Kas/Antalya - Summer 2008. Thanks for looking at it :-)
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"Dutchess of York", a shipwreck near Kalkan in Turkey. Since a lot got broken there, I decided to shoot just a small part and some nice blue with a diver in a distance. Depht was 47 meter.

Flabelina Afinis

I unfortunetly don't have much to say about this...I just like it ;-)

Horozbina. A 5 cm small buddy, who is usually extremly "nervous" and therefore difficult to shoot. If you are looking close enough, there are even in the mediterranean nice motives to find ;-)

Baby barracudas in an late afternoon dive.

The "Skydiver". Swimming with the camera below this small squid made the photo possible. I took it in 2009 in Kas-Antalya (Turkey)

the Lady in Red. Another result of an "marathon-like" model uw photo-session ;-)

It was a great underwater photo session, when I worked with my turkish girlfriend Seda on freediving wide angle photos. While I was scubadiving, she was freediving. On later afternoon she managed to "bend" herself around the sun....a amazing moment

Shot from Smuggler Bay of Bodrum/Turkiye. Taken with Nikon D80, Nikon 10,5 mm fisheye lens and YS110&110a strobes.

Amphora form Bodrum/Turkiye. Taken with Nikon D80, Nikon 10,5mm fisheye lens and YS-110 & YS-110a double strobe.
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Stone fish from Bodrum Turkiye.

Night heron in hunt
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Squacco Heron
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There is a thermocline on the RHS. It gets deeper on the left side as you can see from the blue color.
The sea is almost flat, just some ripples which creates a nice wavy reflection of the stones at the surface of the water

Great Crested Grebe with fish

The cattle egret with frog

cattle egret

Kemer 2008