"Hermit Crab In Slow Motion"
Ambient light and a slow shutter speed blurs the background, while strobe light freezes a hermit crab sitting on the edge of a purple vase sponge.

"Sunny Ray"
The clarity and lighting out at the Sandbar is always killer.

"Sand Traveler"
Spotted Eagle Rays spend a lot of time cruising near the sandy bottom in search of food.

"Grass Lands"
It's no wonder that the Green Turtles are always hanging out at Spotts Beach.

Sharpnose Puffer

"Water Flower"
Elk Horn Coral is very vulnerable to storm surge and swell, but lucky for us they always find a way to keep reaching for the sun.

"Synchronized Swimmers"
A pair of juvenile Spanish Hogfish swim across the reef together. Swimming in perfect tandem, the fish appear to be mirror images of each other.

Angel Fish Silhouette - Shipwreck

Kittiwake

Mermaid looking upward to diver silhouettes

Kittiwake Shipwreck

Brain Coral Planet

Tarpon Trio

Mermaid statue at Sunset House, Grand Cayman
I used a remote strobe with a Triggerfish strobe trigger to backlight the statue, and waited for the fish to be in a good position to click the shutter.

Stingray Magic

A brightly-colored flagfin glass blenny rests on coral. Shot with one strobe on an angle to provide texture.
(No snoot.)

Shark Speed

"Prairie Land"
Seagrass takes on the look of a prairie landscape in this slow shutter image. I utilized surge in the shallows, allowing it to push me through the seagrass while I framed rippling blue water as the landscape's sky and clouds.

Hawksbill Turtle Head-On

Golden Roughhead Blenny

Stingrays and boatman
Shortlisted!
Through to 2017 awards final round judging

"Glamour Shot"
A hermit crab is framed through the edge of the purple sponge it's sitting in.

'In Orbit' - Shooting upward at a Caribbean reef squid as it drifts under a cloudy, drizzly sky in the shallow waters of Grand Cayman
Shortlisted!

Eagle Ray Surprise

Look closely: a diver is lit by a remote slave strobe as he explores the interior of the Nicholson shipwreck. The WW II landing vessel lies in 55' of water in Grand Cayman.

THE SEEKER
Shortlisted!
Through to 2016 awards final round judging

SLEEP KITTI