Favourite Image Of 2012

I like this shot because of the moment. I've always dreamed of seeing this many sharks in one place, and I finally got to.

Palau

Kona Manta Ray Night Dive

I love this thread... so much inspirational.

Last week in the Maldives.

But I also like very much this one taken last June during Alex's workshop in the Red Sea.

Wow, there are some great images in this post.

Alex the slow shutter Jacks is just amazing, love it.

It is extremely hard to pick a favourite but this is the one I came up with Silver Lustre. It is special for me as the model is my beautiful girlfriend.

Not the greatest by any stretch of the imagination, just one I liked.

Spanish Dancer eggs by Pooleypix, on Flickr

Enjoying the thread

Mike

I met this male ribbon moray at the begin and end of every dive at a housreef northern of Tulamben this oktober and made so about 50 shots. Hope it,s not blind now.

That explains the shell-shocked appearance in November, then! Not blind, but still dazed...

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48774

... more later, Photoshop permitting!

here is my picture reminder of my best dive of 2012....and i didn't have to travel far for it...backyard NC on a world class day

Great pictures everyone...have a great and safe 2013

Paul

This year was good, not stellar. I spent more time thinking about my equipment than actually using it :-(

Two favorite pictures, one for its esthetics and the other for capturing an amazing moment.

Happy New Year!

-Nir

As always with this thread, so many inspiring images. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Mine really marks a creative idea that I have had for a long time, that finally came (almost) to fruition.

Wishing everyone great shooting for 2013!

Adam

There are a lot of very fine images so far. Here are two of my selections. First is a mating mandarinfish shot.

001_adj_DSC4808 mandarin fish by edpdiver, on Flickr

and second is a "reefy" shot from the British Virgin Islands

01_adj_DSC_0189 prototypical British Virgin Islands reefscape shot by edpdiver, on Flickr

Wrecks and groupers are the best reasons for diving around my home in the south of France :

and there's many reasons also to dive in Philippinas , like jacks and turtles from Balicasan island

Both pictures have been taken with Olympus OMD-EM5 , and Panasonic 8mm fisheye .

It's been a year for less local diving and a couple of trips; to the Phillipines and to Fiji. I mostly shot macro in the PI and w/a in Fiji, so my more memorable images are the reverse of that flow.

School of Jacks, Phillipines (Nauticam D7000 Tokina 10-17, Zen 100 dome):

School of Jacks by Jack Connick, on Flickr

Rush Hour, Fiji (Nauticam D800, 105VR+Fit +5 diopter):

Rush Hour by Jack Connick, on Flickr

Happy New Year!

I chose this one only because I thought it would make a great DPS but it never got used...(They prefered the turtle framed upin the centre but without any jacks.)

This was taken during the same dive. (Tubbataha Philippines)

Here are my two favorites from 2012.

The first is of a Goliath Grouper in Jupiter, FL and the second of my wife in the Chac Mool Cenote.

Happy New Year

Just came across this right now via Google+ and got caught up with the amazing photos here. Figured I'd chime in with a few images from earlier this year, while I was getting my divemaster certification in the Philippines.

This is always a great thread. This is my offering - octopus posing in North Sea at St Abbs, Scotland

I love this thread - Pam Murph, your image is lovely, and I love the humor of the model's Mickey ears!

This year, after 20 years of diving open circuit, I got certified to dive on a closed-circuit rebreather. My class was at the beginning of July, and I had to put aside my camera for a while afterwards so I could become comfortable with new buoyancy and other skills. The first day I took my camera back out, I was pretty nervous; I could hardly shoot for constantly checking my pO2. That dive day coincided with what we in Southern California see as a nearly annual event - an influx of jellyfish that come in briefly, then disappear. This year's jelly was a pretty uncommon one, the black sea nettle. (I had only seen one of these before, years ago, and it was pretty beaten up.) Seeing tens of them in the water column on this day was incredible. We brought some friends out to shoot them 2 days later, and the vis and jelly numbers had dropped precipitously.

This image was my favorite of the year because it was the first real encounter I'd had with these creatures...and most of all because it was my first day getting used to diving a rebreather with my camera in hand. I didn't take many photos, but because there weren't a bunch of exhalation bubbles, I got a few keepers anyways.

Here's to great diving and successful shooting in 2013!!

Here's my favourite from 2012, shot in Swallows Cave in Tonga.

The location will be very familiar to anyone who knows Tonga's Vava'u Island Group. I like the image because its shot in a place I snorkel with my groups on many occasions every whale season... and I try to do a new and different view each time I'm in there...

Canon EOS 5DMKii

EF 8-15mm f4 L Fisheye

1/30th @ f8

1250 ISO

Aquatica w/megadome

Great Image Darren; really creative use of the 8-15.

Definitely have to get in the water more this year!!!