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shots taken using ambient light i.e. unlit by flash or continuous lighting like HID but filters on the lens are allowed if declared
Giant Cuttlefish taken in Cabbage Tree Bay, Sydney Australia. Taken in super shallow water with Canon R7 ISO 100 f2.8 1/160s
One of Us
This image was captured while a pod of Spinner dolphins were bow riding our RIB. As i was being towed alongside the vessel, the dolphins played around me and two of the indivduals even showed mating behaviour alongside me.
I would ...
Reef meeting
Garden in Huahine.
Midnight parrot fish being serviced by cleaner wrasses. Taken while snorkeling at Halfmoon Caye, Belize. This photo appears exactly as shot, no processing.
To The Moon-A school of sunfish came by to check out our boat and although I didn’t manage to get in the water with them, i sprinted to m camera and held it in the water and managed to get this amazing shot!
Nebrius ferrugineus (tawny nurseshark). (f/6.3, 1/160, IS... by E&e Lp
by: E&e Lp
Nebrius ferrugineus (tawny nurseshark). (f/6.3, 1/160, ISO-100, 25mm). - Erik
The Ball with dorado e Sea Lions
Spotted Eagle Ray and hungry Smooth Trunkfish searching for an early morning breakfast.
REQUIN BALEINE-Rhincodon typus
NOSY BE 2022
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These Maldive anemonefish (Amphiprion nigripes) were at the very edge of my freediving breath hold. I took several shots of them, and each time I would have to immediately swim back up to take a breath before coming back for the next shot.
Cotylorhiza tuberculata yellyfish captured in Cabo de Palos (Mediterranean sea, Spain) with natural sunshine lighting, photo taken with a samsung s21 mobile phone and seafrog housing.
REQUIN BALEINE-Rhincodon typus
Nosy be 2022
Lionfish at the Ulysses wreck (1887) of the Red Sea. I'd forgotten to charge my video lights, allowing the ambient light to create an ominous, prowling effect. Shot with Sony RX100 VII and Seafrogs housing.
Two spotted snappers
Flutemouth shot in the Rarotongan lagoon with a Canon 550D and 60mm ef-s macro lens
I was shooting macro when I noticed the sun giving out a nice sun burst behind the pillars and I quickly switched to wide angle mode on my TG6. This is the result I got.
Surface glow - Silhouette of all the life under water
Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill seaturtle). (f/8, 1/160... by E&e Lp
by: E&e Lp
Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill seaturtle). (f/8, 1/160, ISO-100, 42mm). - Erik
Baby bottlenose dolphin
Bottlenose dolphin, Rangiroa
Small group of bottlenose dolphins with two young passing near me by curiosity of my presence
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Swim through
Sony a7Rvi w Nauticam housing was used to capture the brilliant Egyptian Reef in Ras Mehammad National Park, Red Sea using ambient light without filter.
Entrance
I was free diving at home, in QLD Australia when I looked down and saw this, HUGE Ray below me swimming through a huge school of fish. They all parted around the huge male and he swam off and buried i=himself in the sand on the edge of the reef.
Echeneis naucrates (live sharksucker). (f/5.6, 1/160, ISO... by E&e Lp
by: E&e Lp
Echeneis naucrates (live sharksucker). (f/5.6, 1/160, ISO-125, 50mm). - Erik
The tiger and the reef fish look like they are about to square off. I love marine predators and my wife and I were able to see this sigh and be lucky enough to capture this image.
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