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Grey Nurse Shark in the gloom, inside Fish Rock Cave off the coast of central New South Wales, Australia.
The Calico Bass is one of the "signature" fish in the California Kelp Forests. Sought by anglers and spearfishers, they are hard to photograph. This image taken with a Canon Digital Rebel and 60mm f/2.8 lens in Ikelite Housing. Natural Light.
Snapper at Tye Dye Arch, Poor Knights Islands
Green Mussel stuffed with crab. Tutukaka, NZ.
The frogfish always gets a photographers immediate attention
Diver on the Mahi
Red Irish Lord and Monterey Sea Lemon nudi out of the dark.
Taken at the Poor Knights at a divesite called Middle Arch.
Giant purple-striped jellyfish in the open ocean, off the coast of southern california. We are at 30m depth, with 300 meters of water underneath us. This jellyfish had it's own ecosystem of fish along with it.
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amazing creature
Galapagos sea horse taken with a canon ixus 700 and internal flash smile
Crush. A green turtle off Makena Landing, Maui, Hawaii. Taken with a Canon Digital Rebel XT with a 10-22mm wide angle zoom in an Ikelite Housing. Image shot while free-diving without SCUBA.
My buddy Dave with the local Hawaiian spinner dolphins.
Bottlenose dolphin from the Fairwind II
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This is one of six Stellar Sea Lions that followed us around and played with us while we were diving at Race Rock off the coast of Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Pelagic Trigger Fish. Taken at night in the abyss, 3 miles off the Kona coast in Hawaii. Water depth below us was probably 6000 feet deep.
R2D2....the most famous air compressor in the world !!
Canon Ixus 100, single inon D2000 strobe.
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2010

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Taken at night in the abyss, 3 miles off the Kona coast in Hawaii. Water depth below us was probably 6000 feet deep.
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Tam and the Turtle 2010. A Green Sea Turtle visited by snorklers at Makena Landing, Maui, Hawaii. Shot with a Canon 350D and Canon 10-22mm zoom in Ikelite Housing while freediving without SCUBA.
MANTASTIC!
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Taken at night in the abyss, 3 miles off the Kona coast in Hawaii. Water depth below us was probably 6000 feet deep.
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Nikon D2Xs, Zoom f4/12-24 mm, Seacam Housing w. Seacam Seaflsh 150 TTL (manual setting) and Seacam Mini 100 (manual setting); 1/125 s, f13, ISO 200. Model: Leda
Runner Up - worthy of note but not a medal winner - an equal 4th place if you like! Runner Up 2010

Final RoundThrough to 2010 awards final round judging

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looks an easy shot, you try it. Making it look simple is hard!
Blue Whale breach feeding off Redondo Beach submarine canyon
Whitespotted Boxfish
Emporer Angelfish
How nice to get a pic of the spiney sea urchin during the day.
Endless Oceans - endless Beauty - thanks to Tova Harel ftom click here for the contact to Francisco Beech at the Palau Airport Lounge in Koror who got the doors out of his plane for the fantastic photo-flight - Nikon D3X w. Zoom f2.8/24-70
Thanks Bill Acker from click here for the beautiful Manta and thanks to my model, Leda. - Camera: Nikon D3X, Nikon 24-70/f.2.8
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