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Underwater Photo Contest Entries By Rick Tegeler

386 Entries Found: Page 11  of  15
'GRAY LADY DOWN' Another in my 'Fish Portraits from Around the World' series. Always an interesting subject - the colour makes a challenging shot. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III; 24mm Nikkor Lens. Enjoy!
'ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SIX' I instructed my rather frightened model to... pretend you are a coral'. There were six LARGE females cruising with us. Silvertip Reef; New Hanover, PNG. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor Lens. Enjoy!
'SPINECHEEK ANEMONE FISH' Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55 auto-micro Nikkor Len + imagination. Enjoy!
'OCEANIC SILVERTIP' Again, another from my Fish Portrait series. Silvertip Reef, New Hanover, PNG. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'I LEFT MY HEART..' San Fran from the Marin Headlands. Nikon F; 28-300mm Vivitar lens. Enjoy!
'WINGMAN' Orangefin Anemonefish. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'SEA FAN' More fun with a slave strobe.
Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'RHONE' The 'wet T-shirt wreck' in the movie THE DEEP. Tortola. Sometimes natural light sets the best mood on wrecks. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'FIRE WITHIN' Fun with a slave strobe. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor Lens. Enjoy!
YELLOW MASK ANGEL Anothe in my 'Fish Portraits from Around the World' series. A stunning, but often difficult subject to capture and expose correctly. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. enjoy!
'SHOWER' Silhouettes are always and interesting challenge. A lava sink hole BELOW hide tide level on the east coast of New Ireland, PNG. Nikon F; 28-300 Vivitar lens. Enjoy!
'HIDIN' IN THE WHIPS' Walindi Plantation, Ingles Shoal, WNB, PNG. Trumpet hiding in red sea whips. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'TAMBJA' Rather unusual spot for a nudibranch - out exploring a soft coral growing on the Shinkoku Maru in Truk Lagoon. Housed Nikon F; 15mm Auto-micro Nikkor Lens; Niko Mar III housing. Enjoy!
WOW! Sometimes you get lucky and are in just the right place at the just the right time. This shot is proof. Tofino, Vancouver Island, late fall, perfect conditions for that incredible sunset. Nikon D100 17mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'BLUE MASK' Often a rather un-cooperative subject, I snuck up on this fine specimen whilst he/she was in a crevice. New Ireland, PNG. Housed Nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
KIDS! Between dives on a remote corner of mainland PNG in Milne Bay Province. Kids were using 'kulau' (coconuts) as floats. Housed Nikon F: 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'ANEMONE VISION' Micronesia. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens + imagination. Enjoy!
UNBELIEVABLE! Spriabranchus; New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. A ubiquitous subject, but always fun to find new, interesting colours. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
ELEPHANT EARS! A reasonably challenging image given the job of capturig the correct colour mix. Walindi; Restorf Island; WNB; PNG. Elephant Ear Sponges. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'YELLOW VISION'. A nice healthy specimen on fan coral. These animals are good reef/health indicators. Walindi Plantation; West New Britain, PNG. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
AIR RINGS! Deco stop fun at Ant Atoll, Pohnpei. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'SOFT CORAL STUDY 7' Rainbow Reef, Taveuni, Fiji. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
'HANGIN' OUT!' Well... ya don't see this every day. A scorpion fish parked in a basket sponge... and looking at me with the look: 'What are you looking at?' Belize: Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micor Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
FEATHER DUSTER! A nice example of a rather large tube worm. Thsi fellow was nearly 8" in diameter. Pohnpei - Ant Atoll. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
WHOA! Swimming into a small cave/crevice on a night dive in the Red Sea I came face-to-face with this fine fellow. Blue Spot Sting Ray. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 24mm Nikkor lens. Enjoy!
BRING IN THE ......! Not the tuffest capture - however, beautiful and relatively rare; yellowspot nudibranch. Housed Nikon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens; Red Sea. Enjoy!
TRIGGER! Striped Trigger - New Ireland, PNG. Housed NIkon F; Niko Mar III housing; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor Lens. Enjoy!
386 Entries Found: Page 11  of  15