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"Apex" - A female Caribbean reef shark cruises the reef. by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Apex" - A female Caribbean reef shark cruises the reef.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, August 14, 2018
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Romeo or Juliet" - A black hamlet looks at the camera as... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Romeo or Juliet" - A black hamlet looks at the camera as the pair performs an intricate spawning dance at dusk. Photographed with a slow shutter speed to show some of their motion.
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date posted posted: Thursday, August 9, 2018
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Eagle Ray Ballet" - Two eagle rays glide just off the No... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Eagle Ray Ballet" - Two eagle rays glide just off the North Wall. They soared in to check me out, and then turned and continued on their way.
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date posted posted: Sunday, August 5, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Night Crawler" - A nudibranch (Dondice occidentalis) cra... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Night Crawler" - A nudibranch (Dondice occidentalis) crawls on the outside of a barrel sponge at night.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 31, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Nudibranchia
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Vertical Defense" - A pair of mating green sea turtles t... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Vertical Defense" - A pair of mating green sea turtles try to fend off a rival male by ascending in the water column. The second male was persistent in his pursuit and had numerous bites on his fins and head as a result.
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 26, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Sexy Snooting #1 of 2 - I've been experimenting with usin... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Sexy Snooting #1 of 2 - I've been experimenting with using a snoot in ways other than a spotlight. Here a sexy shrimp dances on his coral stage.
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Sexy Snooting #2 of 2 - I've been experimenting with usin... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
Sexy Snooting #2 of 2 - I've been experimenting with using a snoot in ways other than a spotlight. Here, the transluscence of a spotted cleaner shrimp on coral is shown with my snoot.
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date posted posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Sunset Sunset" - Surfaced to this stunning sunset at Sun... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Sunset Sunset" - Surfaced to this stunning sunset at Sunset House! Hefting my macro kit with diopters half out of the water to get this shot was...interesting. I can almost feel my arms again. wink
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date posted posted: Saturday, July 14, 2018
date posted category: Topside (above water but marine related)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Do You Like My Headdress?" - A tiny pipehorse portrait, ... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Do You Like My Headdress?" - A tiny pipehorse portrait, photographed with SMC and a shallow depth of field to soften the background.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Spot the Crab! Neck crab with hydroids growing on it! by Lindsey Mobley
Spot the Crab!
Neck crab with hydroids growing on it!
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date posted posted: Wednesday, July 4, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Under Over" - Two separate photographs that are meant to... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Under Over" - Two separate photographs that are meant to be viewed together. I plan to print them on canvas and display them like this.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2018
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Two To Tango" - Mating Squid! From what I've read, this ... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Two To Tango" - Mating Squid! From what I've read, this is apparently a somewhat rare event to witness.
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 28, 2018
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Delicate Seahorse" - A white seahorse free-swims between... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Delicate Seahorse" - A white seahorse free-swims between gorgonians. Photographed on the steep Bloody Bay Wall on Little Cayman.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 24, 2018
date posted category: Macro - swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Sea horse in Little cayman by John Loving
Sea horse in Little cayman
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date posted posted: Thursday, June 21, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Seltzer Reef" - Divers' bubbles stream past colorful spo... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Seltzer Reef" - Divers' bubbles stream past colorful sponges and coral hanging off Babylon dive site. The dive boat can be seen above the sponges.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2018
date posted category: Creative - Manipulated (Photoshopped)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Night Moves by Carrie A Dutchak
Night Moves
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date posted posted: Monday, June 18, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Close Focus
date posted location: Cayman islands
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Pipehorse Portrait - My first pipehorse! This little guy... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
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.
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date posted posted: Friday, June 15, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Super macro
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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The Kittiwake takes on a different perspective when you a... by Dwayne Dubois
The Kittiwake takes on a different perspective when you add a diver in for scale.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Wrecks
date posted location: Cayman islands
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The USS Kittiwake has a ghostly feeling in black and whit... by Dwayne Dubois
The USS Kittiwake has a ghostly feeling in black and white. I love this wreck in Grand Cayman and continue to dive it every time I am there.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Wrecks
date posted location: Cayman islands
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Stingray Sandbar is a special place to photograph on Gran... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
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.
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date posted posted: Wednesday, June 13, 2018
date posted category: Over/Under (shots half topside, half U/W)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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Living Light Olympus Pen 1 14-42mm Sea&Sea YS-27DX st... by Carrie A Dutchak
Living Light
Olympus Pen 1
14-42mm
Sea&Sea YS-27DX strobes
Diaopter +5
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date posted posted: Saturday, June 9, 2018
date posted category: Macro - Close-Up
date posted location: Cayman islands
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"Navy Night" - Carrie Dutchak surfaces following a dusk d... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Navy Night" - Carrie Dutchak surfaces following a dusk dive. The lights of Grand Cayman glow behind her.
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date posted posted: Friday, June 8, 2018
date posted category: Fashion
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Chiaroscuro" - I photographed this arrow crab using one ... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"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.
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Magnificent lighting and spot on focus.
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date posted posted: Sunday, June 3, 2018
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Sweep And Swirl" Sponges and gorgonians swirl. I phot... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"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.
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date posted posted: Tuesday, May 29, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Marine Life
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"Sweeping Shadows" - A brightly-colored flagfin glass ble... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"Sweeping Shadows" - A brightly-colored flagfin glass blenny rests on coral. Shot with one strobe on an angle to provide texture. (No snoot.)
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date posted posted: Thursday, May 24, 2018
date posted category: Macro - not swimming
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"On Patrol" - A Caribbean reef shark sweeps in for a clos... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"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.
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date posted posted: Sunday, May 20, 2018
date posted category: Sharks
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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"The Whisk" - Silversides appear to be spun as they're dr... by Susannah H. Snowden-Smith
"The Whisk" - Silversides appear to be spun as they're drenched by a pool of light. The light is pouring in through a hole in the ceiling of the swim through.
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date posted posted: Monday, May 7, 2018
date posted category: Wide Angle - Natural Light (no strobe)
date posted location: Caribbean Sea Cayman islands
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