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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By John De Jong

127 Entries Found: Page 2  of  5
Detail of a crab, using my snoot.
Playing with the snoot with bad conditions these weekend. However, I was satisfied with these quadrolineata......
Practising with the snoot on macro subjects.
One of last winter. A Cyclopterus lumpus in close up.
Practicing in the swimming pool. For the divers and for the photographer in this case.
Pike between vegetation, waiting for some prey.
Some half-half in fresh water from last weekend. Used HDR for the effect.
Eureka !
Mirror.
My friend the Swan, close to the channel were I made some of my freshwater pictures. Some days later she attacked me. Hint: don’t use sunglasses with reflection glass….We were friends again after that.
Dutch Nudibranchia are not so colorfull as the species from tropical waters. But I still like them. Goniodoris castanea with spawn.
Also our cold waters give fantastic colours, especialy the Dahlia, one of my favorites.
Pike picture made some weeks ago. The same pike as the green picture, now I used my strobes.
I make these Pike picture without strobes, at ISO400 to get the mystic green in the picture.
Small Pike between the vegetation.
My first Flabellina lineata in the Netherlands. They are not often seen here, with thanks to Pater van Bragt for showing me this one.
My first Facelina auriculata of 2010, spotted yesterday at Goes, at a dept of 15 meters.
Another result of my snorkling trip in the small canal close to my home. You need to see it bigger I assume....
I made some pipes on my underwaterhousing to make half/half pictures. Ofcourse I have to test it close to my home with these water lily.
Picture taken down under, in a small canal close to my home. As long as I didn´t move visibility was OK ;-)
UFO !!!!!!
These jellyfish looks like an Ufo in space. The backscatter are the stars, I didn’t remove it because I like the effect.
My budy Frans taking pictures of Cyclopterus lumpus. I was iritated that he tooks pictures at the same moment I try to photograph him.... Then I realized he is using slave flashes....
Cyclopterus lumpus can be found in the beginning of each year in our Oosterschelde. The coloured males stay in the neighbourhood of the eggs for about 6 weeks. After that they disappear to deeper waters. Notice the green colour of our Northsee.
The first time I ever saw Syngnathus acus mating, last weekend in our Oosterschelde. Unfortunately I had my macro lens on the camera :-(
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Ofcourse we have flowers above and below the water in the Netherlands.
These Cyclopterus lumpus was trapped. Hard to leave him there...
Our cold waters are green ofcourse. These Wakame can be impressive when there is some sunshine.
The Hemigrapsus penicillatus last weekend in water of 4 degrees C. Nice camouflage.
Testing my new wide angle lens in a freshwater lake near to my hometown I spotted these model submarine. It has a length of about 2 meters.
Another half-half in freshwater, close to my home.

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Editor's Comment
John knows that you can still get the camera out and practice close to home
127 Entries Found: Page 2  of  5