I haven't finished going through all of my photos from last year, but of the ones I've developed so far, it would probably be one of these sea lions. I've been diving with the Monterey sea lions on a regular basis for the last few years, but it was only last year that I was finally able to capture some photos of them that I actually liked, which I attribute mostly to investing in a copy of @Alex_Mustard's Masterclass book and picking up a WACP-C, which does a much better job of filling the frame for shots like these compared to the 8-15mm fisheye I was using previously.
Honorable mention goes out to this shot of a flamingo tongue snail from my second ever attempt at using a snoot, and this jellyfish (some sort of turritopsis?) from the only blackwater dive I had a chance to do last year, which I like for being one of those rare examples of a photo where backscatter actually enhances the image.
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