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 Canon RF100 1/200 f8 iso100
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Breathtaking encounter with a humpback whale mother and its calf.

Each year  a population of humpback whales  living in the antarctic  migrates north towards the equator along the coast of Mozambique. Warmer waters are more favorable for mating...
By Paul Krassnitzer
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A humpback whale mother and her calf. Each year a group of humpback whales migrates along the coast of Mozambique
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 CanonRF100 1/200 f11 iso100
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Underwater Photo Location: Portofino

Underwater Photo Location: Portofino

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Superb national park. Caves, usual Mediterranean seascape. Saw a Sunfish!
Facts about Portofino




by Torresan Patrick
the best Med sea

by Daniel Strub
Painted comber (serranus scriba) taken in Portofino

by Marchione Giacomo
Luminescenze: Nikon D200, 60micro, twin strobo Ligurian sea

by Marco Faimali
The egg-case of spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)

by Marco Faimali
The call of the Christ of the Abyss. "Il Cristo degli Abissi" is in the Mediterranean sea off San Fruttuoso between Camogli and Portofino on the Italian Riviera. It was placed in the water on 22 August 1954 at approximately 17 metres depth.

by Marco Faimali
Little red coral (Corallium rubrum) into the epibenthic assemblages of a Mediterranean coralligenous reef in Portofino, Liguria, Italy.

by Marco Faimali
Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum) in semi-dark cave (Marine Protected Area of Portofino)

by Marco Faimali
Gym(sea)Star! Echinaster sepositus (Mediterranean red sea-star)

by Pietro Formis
Hermit Crab Portofino, Secca della Carega Sony W-300 Sea & Sea YS-17 Strobe

by Marco Faimali
Mediterranean atmosphere..... (Compact camera Nikon Coolpix 8400 in Ikelite Housing and two Epoque ES-150 DS Strobes).

by Marcello Di Francesco
Ziguela

by Marco Faimali
Mediterranean blenny (Parablennius gattoruggine)

by Marcello Di Francesco
Pontonia Pinnophylax inside Pinna Nobilis Shoted with canon eos500d + canon 100mm inon lens ucl165 (+6) and inon strobe Z240

by Pietro Formis
Flabellina

by Pietro Formis
Riccio

by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Soft-Night (Pelagia noctiluca)

by Marcello Di Francesco
fm the dark

by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Parazoanthus axinellae (polyps closed)

by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Open and close! (the solitary sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti)

by Marco Faimali (ismar-Cnr)
Running on the frozen sea
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