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This shot was taken using big aperture for nice bokeh effect. This sea lemon was crawling on bunch of barnacles, it was relatively shallow compare to the rest of the dive, so there was good amount of natural light for the background color!
Tractor Beam engaged! Long Arm Octopus keeping an eye on its surroundings.
While on a freedive over a popular reef in Hawaii, a few Galapagos sharks came to investigate. This one passed right below, which allowed me to get this top down profile shot.
You never know what will be hiding in a Barrel Sponge!
Octopus in a bottle with a fire worm friend.
I am Bruce from Santa Monica. I photograph surfers in California and creatures in the Caribbean.
This photo of a model in a prom dress was made using a Nikon D850 and an Ikelite enclosure.
We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
- Anaïs Nin
Wonderland #2
Photographed in Maui, Hawaii
Sugar Plum Fairy
"Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.”
- Elbert Hubbard
"In Bloom #3," Photographed in Maui, HI.
Dancer: @Her.Stillness.Dances
Nikon D2x, Tokina 10-17mm, Subal housing
"Dream of Atlantis"
Nikon D2X, Tokina 10-17mm, Subal housing
Bull shark glides through the shadows.
I am rooted, but I flow. -Virgina Woolf
"Alohi, "Photographed in Maui, HI
Nikon D2X, Tokina 10-17mm, Subal housing
shortlistedShortlisted!
Lemon shark feeding
Anacapa, Channel Islands, California. Giant Kelp and a sunny day made for beautiful conditions.
"Emergence"
We were photographing outside this cave when this Hawaiian green sea turtle came flying out.
Diver: Dani Rhem
Photographed in Maui, HI 12/2/2021 Nikon D850, Nikkor 20mm
green xmas
bubble ring elf
xmas Calender shoot
no name
Sea lemon on barnacles!
Touch
My first octo! Taken in waist deep water at Blue Heron, I sucked a steel dry. An Atlantic Longarm, this was an interesting critter.
Bubble Honu
shortlistedShortlisted!
Lemon shark Jupiter, FL
My what big teeth you have.
Lemon shark coming in to inspect me. Shot in Jupiter, FL with a Canon 1DX MKIII, Nauticam Housing, and Ikelite strobes.
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