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School of Barracudas, Scoglio del Medico, Ustica
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Saturday, September 30, 2017
19 votes

Posidonia meadows
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Tuesday, October 3, 2017
17 votes

Photograph nudis in these parts of Arabic Sea is a bit more challenging than elsewhere given the poor visibility.
But when you succeed, beautiful colors come out as for this Phidiana m. shotted at the wreck dive site_Goa
(Canon100,1/200,f20,i.125)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Monday, March 27, 2023
17 votes

Ustica Island
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Sunday, August 13, 2017
16 votes

Xunaan-Ha cave diving
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Wednesday, July 5, 2017
15 votes

Coral blenny_Aquarium dive site_Havelock island_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso100)
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Saturday, March 11, 2023
15 votes

Dreamgate
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Friday, April 19, 2019
14 votes

a shot taken during cave diving in Xunaan -ha ,Chemuyil, Mexico. Artificial lights permit to admire mineral formation ..otherwise always in dark state.
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Wednesday, December 14, 2016
13 votes

Islas del Rosario
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Sunday, May 14, 2017
13 votes

Islas del Rosario
By Antonio Venturelli
posted Tuesday, July 11, 2017
13 votes
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I usually find this type of Flabellina where there is a hidden current, however it prefers to shelter in creeks. Once found it is pleasant to shot when it opens its cerata upwards as in this photo taken ~15 mt deep_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f16,i.160)
A pair of Cratena peregrina nudibranchs crawls across the seafloor near Casteldaccia, Sicily.
Photo taken in August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
This Flabellina a. with its lively colors seems to say "be careful"!.After feeding on hydroids, they keep intact the stinging nematocysts contained therein & transfer to cerata for defense against predators_July2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,i.200)
Cratena nudibranchs_August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
Lately I've enjoyed finding two or more Cratenas close to each other, I wait and, as if they knew I want to photograph them, they approach each other to give me some shots while they are tangled together_August 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso160)
Felimare tricolor of Mediterranean Sea_June 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
Close up on the bright eyes for this little Hermit crab. Photo taken during a dive in Scilla in 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f20,iso200)
Photographing from below can be difficult, but it pays off especially if you can find a nudibranch that's on top of a twig like in this photo of a beautiful Flabellina_Scilla_July 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f22,iso200)
Beautiful Flabellina affinis photographed at "La Montagna of Scilla" dive site,Italy_July 2021
(Canon60,1/200,f22,iso200)
The Flabellina affinis nudibranch , an intricate lilac colored tangle, whose head I often fail to locate, is always fascinating for me to photograph_July_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
Felimare tricolor_June 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso200)
Prostheceraeus Giesbrechtii_July 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f14,iso200)
Two Cratena nudibranchs dancing in the current."La Formica" dive site_Casteldaccia,Sicily_July2023 (Canon100,1/200,f20,iso200)
Pink Flabellina nudibranch_July 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso200)
A pair of colorful Cratena nudibranchs feeding on hydroids of the genus Eudendrium. Photo taken at the dive site La Formica (Casteldaccia_Sicily)_July 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso200)
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Flabellina affinis_July2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,iso200)
Flabellina affinis_July 2023
(Canon 100,1/200,f20,iso200)
Flabellina affinis. Although I photographed hundreds of them, it is always one of my favourites. She was struggling to hold on to her twig without being swept away by current. A pleasant underwater encounter!_July 2023
(Canon100,1/200,f18,i.200).
I almost always use 100 mm focal. Challenging especially at the beginning but surprising for the sharpness, the mass of colors & the gradualness with which it fades into blur, as for this Cratena of Mediterranean sea.
(Canon100,1/200,f18,iso200)
Beautiful eyes of Mediterranean Hermit crab_2023
(Canon60,1/200,f18,iso200)
Felimare tricolor are quite common in the Mediterranean Sea but difficult to photograph due to their small size. I like the contrast between strong yellow & electric blue that distinguishes this species of nudis_2023
(Canon100,1/200,f16,iso200)
Mediterranean Cratena Peregrina with typical intense orange colored cerata & blue tips_June 2023
(Canon100, 1/200,f18,iso200)
A small,colorful, elegant & sinuous Cratena, tenaciously clinging to a rock, comes towards me resisting the current. I enjoy photographing it looking for the contrast with the intense red of the sponge behind it _2023
(Canon100,1/200,f20,i.200)
During my dives in Goa,sometimes I came across a Flabellina & thought to myself — what an enormous one! And it turned out… it wasn't just 1. It's at times difficult to tell a singular from a mating pair as this photo.
(Canon100,1/250,f25,i.250)
Mediterranean Cratena. With its colorful shades, it looks like the creation of a talented painter_2023
(Canon60,1/200,f20,iso200)
A close up of a bright red Flabellina (with one of the two orange horns which is shorter, surely bitten by some predator), commonly found in the waters surrounding Goa_2023
(Canon100, 1/200,f20,iso200)
I admit it: I like gobies. These amazing little fish when they are illuminated they show off bright colors on their little bodies. An assortment of beautiful metallic blue spots, bright red-orange lines, bars, & others.
(Canon100,1/200,f16,i.100)
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