I have spent the last week in the South of France near Montpellier and did four dives in the Etang de Thau. This is a hugely rich environment for macro opportunities with abundant seahorses and species I have never seen before. Thanks to Helene Caillaud for her expert guidance, she spotted a seahorse in less than 20 seconds!. All taken with the D7000 and 60mm EFS macro and some with FIT PRO +5, +8 and +16 diopters.
Seahorses
Pregnant seahorse
Tiny flabellina nudi laying eggs
Male and female peacock blennies
These burrowing anemones were everywhere so I spent some time zooming in to the tentacle ends
Details of the anemone tips
Lightbulb tunicates
Wonderful shots, Alex. I would not have guessed that the macro diving was so good there! I would kill to have a seahorse shot like your first one. Also love the nudis and the blennies.
good job Alex, nice shots
The seahorse and peacock blennies are very stunning.
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the anemones are wonderful
I really like the anemones too. Well observed to find such beauty in something so common.
Alex
Great shots. I had no idea there was good diving around there. Thanks for the heads-up.
-Erwin
Beauuutiful
Cheers
Karel
Great shots! I really like the tunicate image.
Lee
Wonderful shots!!!
Wonderful images Alex. I really like the anemone tips.
Great shots Alex.
Never heard of "Etang de Thau" but it looks really productive and its relatively close for us.
