Post your best ONE shot of 2010

This is one of my favorites from 2010 in that it was a lot of fun planning and getting it executed. You would be surprised at how many people asked how come the lights were on?

While my photos are much less impressive than the great photos from you professionals, I liked this shot even though the quality/resolution were very poor. The RAW file was very cyan so I initially converted to B&W but later pulled out some color with Elements 6.0.

Such a hard choice, but I think my favorite was this school of hunting Goldsaddled Goatfish in various color phases. I followed them around the reef for several minutes and they finally followed some prey right past me in a rush. From Raja Ampat.

7D, Nauticam, Canon 18-55, (2) Z240

Definitely not the best technically, but this shot of a Giant Pacific Octopus (GPO) on eggs was the most memorable diving experience of the year for me.

Note the black dots in each egg -- those are baby GPO eyes

Hard choice to do. I guess this one is one I like a lot, have been waiting to do it for several years without getting it done. I really like when pictures come out at least somewhat how they were planned, and even better if that planning has been done a long time before the picture actually is taken. Red Sea, Abu Dabab, EF 15mm FE with 1,4 extender and 2 DS 125´s

Hasn't been the best year for me for diving or picture taking. Still, I kind of like this one. Taken while decompressing from a deep dive off of Point Lobos in Central California. I got cold during the deco so I took the port cover off and started shooting away at the (rather numerous) jellies. Warmed me right up.

Clinton

Good stuff here. I am not worthy...but here goes...............

Canon T2i, Tokina 10-17, Inon Z240 Strobes, S&S RDX-550 Housing, S&S Dome Port, 75 Feet

Jupiter, FL Reef, Fall 2010

Here's mine...After shifting to a DSLR i got this in the red sea..Loved the formation

Thanks to all the rest for posting the pics...Some really amazing pictures.

Cheers,

Diggy

Plura, cave north of Norway

D70/Subal, Tokina 10-17mm, 2xInon Z240 + 2xSB104 remote strobes

Ø. Røimål

pipe fish up close and personnel at flinders reef brisbane australia canon 7D tonkina 10-17

Some great stuff in there! Damo, I love your shot mate.

I did one overseas trip (to Bali) in 2010, however, after a hard drive failure and a very extended delay on it being returned to me after a recovery, I'm still waiting on them. So all my underwater pics are from around Aus this year (not that that's a bad thing).

My 2 favorites, of quite common subjects. #1 is from the GBR off Cairns, #2 is from Julian Rocks, Byron Bay.

Ryan.

 

Edward Lai

I think that you have a problem: how on earth can you top this image (unless you can get the shrimp face-on)?!

Tim

Here's one of my favorites from 2010!

USAT Liberty, Bali. 5Dmk2, 24mm prime, Ikelite. Such a good memories from this trip!

Enjoy! Happy new years 2011!

Here's my contribution, considering I had busted ribs and a BC that was pushing against them when I took the shot, I'd say it turned out very well! =)

Canon 7D, Aquatica A7D Housing, AF Macro Port, EF100 USM Macro, ISO 100, F16, 1/160th, Twin S&S YS110a strobes. TLC Arms.

Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte

Stu

After living in the same house for 17 years my wife and I took the plunge and bought a new house last December...needless to say the money pit has absorbed most of our time and resources. We did manage a family vacation with friends so we chose the side of Mexico with nice beaches over Cozumel. Great choice for topside activities, not so great for diving. After 12 dives, I was on my ascent when I saw this ray swimming. I swam to where I placed myself directly in his path. He saw me and promptly parked in the sand with his butt to me :-< I remained still for at least a minute hoping to get a take off shot and he didn't disappoint me. He turned around and swam over my shoulder!

Although I have several candidate shots for favorite (some are on my Xmas card, see Seasons Greeting thread), I am instead submitting a “best of” shot. This is my best science shot for 2010. It was taken in September using a pole-cam rig. It shows very small Pacific herring (4 to 5 cm long) from the 2010 cohort (they were eggs back in early spring) infested with sea lice (parasitic copepods). There are several herring in the photo with sea lice; the blow-up (pixel peeping for science!) is one with two that are clearly adult stage since they have eggs. I used this shot (whole as well as blow-up) as well as a few others (also paired with blow-ups) in a research proposal submitted just before leaving for the holidays.

Awesome set of pictures - as alawys. Here is my fav for the year - hard to choose just one though. I took this in Palau while diving German Channel in June. This was my first manta sighting ever!

Happy New Year - DiverPam

I am fond of this image of a Humpback female I took on the Silver bank in Feb 2010. It passed under our tender and interacted with us for over an hour until the escort got tired of our competition for her attention. This was shot with a 10.5mm fish-eye lens at a distance of about 1 foot. An unbelievable experience I was so lucky to have had.