Some lovely pics: especially the ribbon eel and rhinopias. The nautilus too. Nice work!
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Location: St John's Caves, southern Red Sea, Egypt - superb area of the Red Sea. A playground for divers of tunnels and swim throughs
Dive operator: Emperor Divers liveaboard (MV Emperor Elite - highly recommended) out of Marsa Alam
Equipment: Nikon D800, Sigma 15mm FE lens and 2x Inon Z240 strobes
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19 hours ago, phxazcraig said:
Anyone else seen an underwater magnifying glass? This one was from Holland .
Yeah, my wife and a couple of others in the group that I travel to Roatan with routinely carry magnifying glasses underwater. I love that Arrow Blenny shot, but all of yours are really nice.
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Emperor Divers' Lisa Pulzer poses next to stunning soft and hard corals in Egypt's Red Sea.Nikon D500, Tokina Lens 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5, SEACAM Seaflash 150 strobes. 1/200@f11, ISO250
Boaz Samorai hovering over beautiful, healthy table corals at Apo Islands, Philippines. Taken while diving with Atlantis Dive Resorts & Liveaboards at Dumaguete.Nikon D850, Nauticam USA WACP, two INON global Z330 strobes with 4600°K diffusers. 1/250@f/10, ISO250.
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The colour and shapes of a crinoid feather star
Rimax Point dive site, Lembeh Straits
Staying (and working) at Kungkungan Bay Resort
Nikon D300 and 105mm lens.
1/100 at f22 ISO 200 with a couple of Inon Z240 strobes
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Each spring, Ras Mohammed on the southernmost tip of Egypt's Sinai desert attracts huge school of fish. Located on the confluence of the Gulfs of Suez and Aquaba, it is a place where pretty much anything can happen...Here a photographer shoots a school of Bohar snapper (Lutjanus bohar).Nikon D810, Nikon 16-35mm f/4.5, SEACAM Superdome, SEACAM Seaflash 150 strobes. 1/125@f/10 , ISO640. Processed with Seim Silver 3 in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Diving with the rookery of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) at the UK's Farne Islands is amazing! The seals are incredible interactive and chose to engage and interact with us clumsy humans...
Nikon D500, Nikon 8-15mm f/3.5-4.5, SEACAM CP Port, INON globalZ240 strobes. 1/125@f/8, ISO1250
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I like that it is not only far away stuff.
My only Farnes trip was in 2012
_MG_8603 by Gerard Wijnsma, on Flickr
_MG_8629 by Gerard Wijnsma, on Flickr
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A Pedersen cleaner shrimp dances on the Something Special dive site, Bonaire. A site where I could happily spend all day with a snoot and a 105mm lens - and my partner claims I do.
Tanks from Dive Friends who are handily placed all over the island including a number of the favourite dive sites
Nikon D500, Nikkor 105mm lens, Inon Z240 strobe with Retra LSD snoot
ISO100 1/125, f16
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Some specialities from Sydney Australia, I usually head out with Abyss Scuba Diving they run boat and shore dives based around Botany Bay and off shore reefs accessible from there.
Giant Cuttlefish at a reef offshore from Sydney's Eastern Suburbs
Weedy Sea Dragon on a site just inside the north head of Sydney Harbour. Found all around the southern coastline of Australia, Sydney is a great spot to find weedies.
Port Jackson sharks appear on Sydney dive sites in the winter when they come close inshore to breed. This one is at Oak Park at Cronulla south of Sydney, it's a shore dive on an ocean beach that is sheltered by a headland to the south.
Eastern Blue Groper, actually a type of wrasse, these are 1m long blue puppy dogs who will follow you on a dive making close passes - some divers feed them sea urchins and they are hoping for a handout. This is on a shore dive from Bare Island a popular dive site just inside the heads of Botany Bay.
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Excellent photos. I can only contribute with videos, because in the last few years I'm switched from photography.
Sorry for the German text but it was a submission to a German underwater video competition. The footages were taken in German lakes close to Leipzig.
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Here are a few of mine :-)
All from the Red Sea.
Anemonefish by Thomas Petersen, on Flickr
Anemonefish by Thomas Petersen, on Flickr
Diamond-shaped squid (Thysanoteuthis rhombus) egg case by Thomas Petersen, on Flickr
Freckled hawkfish by Thomas Petersen, on Flickr
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And another Red Sea image
Ruqia Island dive site. Diving from the Emperor Diver's Boat, Emperor Elite
Nikon D800 with Sigma 15mm lens, ISO 200, 1/100, f10
Doesn't the colour of the ocean and soft corals just make you want to get back in the water?
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Here are a couple from my 'backyard' (Vancouver, BC) all taken less than a 40-minute drive from the city.
Tim - love the red crinoid image!
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Okay... First image: taken @Wakatobi (can't remember the site) from about 3 years ago.
2nd Image (this time of me & a friend): taken @Cenderawasih Bay 4 years ago.
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Vibrant colors and an abundance of life. Anilao in the Philippines is not only a macro destination!
Mike Bartick explains more on Wetpixel: https://wetpixel.com/…/going-big-in-little-town-by-mike-bar…
Taken while diving with Solitude Acacia Resort during the 2018 Anilao Underwater Shootout.
Nikon D500, Nikon 8-15mm f/3.5-4.5, SEACAM CP port, INON globalZ330 strobes with 4600°K diffusers. 1/25@f/10, ISO160
Extreme super macro! Nudibranch porn! Nudibranchs are simultaneous hermaphrodites; ie. they possess both male and female sex organs and copulation is usually reciprocal, both individuals donating and storing spermThe "business end" of two Nembrotha cristata sharing and donating.Taken in Puerto Galera, Philippines with Atlantis Dive Resorts & LiveaboardsNikon D850, Nikon 105mm f/2.8 VR, Nauticam SMC-2, INON global Z330 strobes. 1/25O@f/10, ISO100
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As lots of terrific images are showing, the Red Sea is great for wide-angle dives.
One of the most important elements I have found (certainly if you want to sell images) is putting a diver into the scene. This give it context and a human element.
The hard part is finding the diver who has the patience and dive skills to model. It's much harder than it looks! Take a look at lots of images of divers and you have bits of gear hanging all over the place, fins and legs in weird positions......
So a big thanks to my partner who - usually - has the patience and the ability to exhale at the right moment (nice bubble stream), look at the right spot (eyes visible in the shot), hold the dive light properly (so it packs up nicely in the image) and get her legs and fins in an attractive position. Compared to all that, pressing the shutter is easy.
So: dive site was St John's Habili Jafar in the southern Red Sea
Dive operator: Emperor Divers on their boat the MV Emperor Elite
Nikon D800 with a Sigma 15mm FE lens. ISO200 1/50 f11. Two Inon Z240 strobes both canted over to light the soft corals
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Some sea lion shots from San Pedro Island, Mexico:
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A bundle of color! A Janolus savinkini nudibranch makes its way across the sea bed.Taken in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia, diving with Critters at Lembeh Resort
Photographer Li Westerlund catches the shot. This whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is performing a vertical feeding behavior known as a "bottle" or bottle.Every year, hundreds of whale sharks aggregate off Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Wetpixel has been there for the past 15 years or so...Diving with the excellent Keen M BluewaterNikon D850, Nauticam WACP, 1/200@f/8, ISO 200
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Red Irish Lord perfectly perched on a sponge.
At God's Pocket
Nikon D500, Nauticam Housing, Nikon 10.5mm Fisheye, 2x Retra Flashes, ISO 100, f11, 1/125
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Nice pic, Matt
