(Direct gallery link if you prefer to skip the text: Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea)
I recently returned from the Wetpixel expedition to Papua New Guinea, and Eastern Fields is one of the best wide angle locations I have dived, flush with dense schools of juvenile reef fish through adult pelagics. The Wetpixel group was sure there could be a good amount of critters, as well, but we so rarely decided to use our macro lenses. Gorgeously healthy reefs featured some superb thermoclines during the daily current fluctuations; in the rare spot that wasn't covered by living coral or fish, the current blows past your head with the roar of a strong wind, and endless anthias fight upstream in the breeze. Friendly potato cod pose for pictures at 120 ft, and a very unique wreck contains hundreds of flashlight fish that burst forth from a bulkhead as darkness falls.
These bannerfish at first mistook the tiny exhaled bubbles from my regulator for food, chasing after and gulping them down. They soon realized the bubbles were not the plankton they desired 
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Reef sharks were curious and cooperative, approaching divers repeatedly to investigate the strangers encroaching on their territory.
Algaes, corals, sponges, fans, fish. What more to ask for?
Self-portrait with a large potato cod
I've yet to caption anything, but I managed to piece together a gallery from the expedition (new recent record for me, seeing as how I'm still two years behind on some trips): Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea. As always, I appreciate any feedback/criticism of the gallery images.
Special thanks to Eric Cheng, Tony Wu, and Craig de Wit for the organization of the expedition!
