Your Favourite Shot of 2007

Well, as others have said before me, not technically my favorite, but my favorite as it epitomizes the wonder of man in the ocean when he comes across the fantastic. It also has the love of photo connection, and it was a kick-ass dive. Oops, did I say that??? Anyway, Mary Island ROCKS. Oh, and it may have been my last film dive....maybe. Gotta love the sunball.

Happy New Year to all,

Marli

I was trying for a sunburst silhouette in Jellyfish Lake, Palau, and did multiple free dives to about 12 feet, then shot my wife, Karen, coming up. This one worked the best. An added bonus was that Snell's Window looked like a globe of the earth. So it ended up being our holiday card .

Happy Holidays!

Hi Alex

My/our diving split 50.50 between tropical and Dosthill Quarry UK.

This is my favourite (inspite of Indonesia trip),I have been pursuing the Dosthill Quarry pike all year, this looks more like a tropical shot but only photo shop for colour balance and exposure (it was a nice day!)

Nikon D70s Ikelite housing and strobes Sigma 17-70 zoom.

Happy Christmas Tim Digger

Point Lobos State Reserve, Carmel CA

Here is mine. Guadalupe Island, Nikon D2x, 12-24mm, Aquatica Housing.

Happy Hollidays!!!

Marcelo Krause.

I'm very impressed: everyone gets their fish to look at the camera!

My favourite, for entirely egotistical reasons: despite being mounted upside down in exhibition, this made the Diver magazine calendar for 2008:

But, to REALLY cheat, these came very, very close:

I suppose that there IS eye contact...

All taken with a Nikon D70 in a Nexus housing with twin Inon Z220 strobes. This Sudan trip was the camera's last outing: it has now gone to a new home. I wish it well!

Tim

B)

my favorite shot for this year comes from my favorite place for this year - Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Alex Safonov

http://pats0n.livejournal.com/tag/underwater+photo

Hi all,

I think this is my favourite shot of 2007. At the very least it has convinced me that it is possible to get great results underwater!!!

2007 and has been a great year-I re-discovered underwater photography and found Wetpixel! Many thanks for the support and advice that you all give so freely on here.

All the very best to everyone for the holidays, and great diving/photography in 2008.

Adam

Bonaire in October

Just took this last week on at Darwin in the Galapagos. I still marval at the awe I felt being so close to this giant!

Take care,

John

This is not a technically perfect image, however, it brings back a lot of wonderful memories when diving in Jupiter, Florida We were very lucky to see many Goliath Groupers on this dive. It was taken with a D70S, the lens was a 10.5mm. The settings used were Manual, F/7.1 and 1/60s

Really tough choice for me. I have some images from this year that I think are more beautiful. This one won't be entered in any contests. And Marli brought up Mary Island... I have images from last New Year's Eve at Mary Island that are very special to me - mostly because it is such an awe inspiring place, as Marli says. But New Year's Eve was last year. So I chose this one because I'm a critter lover, and this is one of the ultimate critters, at least in my view. A blue ring octopus, a critter I hadn't seen in almost five years. They were plentiful this fall in Lembeh. And so I shot this image which I hope captures just a little of the intense personality!

Linda

Seeing all these excellent images, I feel humbled.

This one was taken a few weeks ago in Eilat.

arent they sweet ??

More great shots. I didn't see that second goby, Marco, unitl I clicked on the image.

Alex

More great shots. I didn't see that second goby, Marco, unitl I clicked on the image.

 

Alex

haha,it took me at least 4 minutes shooting the first one before the second came out

My fav for this year -- stomach of an anemone.

Even with all the "big fish" in Palau, this unusual shot was my favorite.

Some amazing images on this post! This is a great annual tradition!

This image is from my first ( but hopefully, not last) trip to the Bunaken Marine Park in Indonesia, and I was blown away by the magnificent healthy hard corals.... plus I love sweetlips!

Taken with D200 in Subal + 12-24 lens

Fletcher