Photos of the Week #224

August 3, 2009

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Tom Kirksey
First submission to POTW!

8/1/2009
Catalina Island
Howlands Landing

Bat Ray
Myliobatis californica

Canon SD 550 Powershot
Internal diffused flash

Tom Day
First submission to POTW!

7/29/2009
Catalina Island
Casino Point Underwater Park
40 feet

Two-spot Octopus
Octopus bimaculatus or
Octopus bimaculoides

Canon A630
Canon WP-DC8 housing
Internal diffused flash

Gerald Winkel
First submission to POTW!

7/31/2009
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
35 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Canon SD790IS
Internal flash

Dave McNair

7/30/2009
Cozumel, Mexico
Punta Sur
90 feet

Taken on Dave & Suzanne's honeymoon!

Spotted Moray
Gymnothorax moringa

Canon A710is
Internal strobe

Suzanne (Scrivens) McNair

7/30/2009
Cozumel, Mexico
Columbia Shallows
30 feet

Taken on Dave & Suzanne's honeymoon!

Secretary Blenny
Acanthemblemaria maria

Canon A710is
Internal strobe

Walter Heim

8/1/2009
La Jolla
Shell Beach
25 feet

Soupfin Shark (Tope)
Galeorhinus galeus

Canon 20D
Ikelite housing
Dual SB105 strobes

Jen Tople

7/30/2009
La Jolla Shores
20 feet

Sand Dollars
Dendraster excentricus

Nikon D70s

David Andrew

8/1/2009
US/Mexican border
Wreck of the Hogan
125 feet

Lingcod
Ophiodon elongatus

Nikon D200
Ikelite Housing
Dual Ikelite DS160 strobes
60mm lens
f/16, 1/200, ISO 250

Peter Brueggeman

8/3/2009
Point Loma
Ancient Sea Cliffs
90 feet

Copper Rockfish
Sebastes caurinus

Red Gorgonian
Lophogorgia chilensis

Olympus 8080
Ikelite housing
Ikelite DS51 strobe

Dave Rudie

8/1/2009
Catalina Island
Emerald Cove
10 feet

Green Abalone
Haliotis fulgens

Bluebanded Goby
Lythrypnus dalli

In the upper left is a scaled worm
Serpulorbis squamigerus

Olympus E410

Kevin Lee

7/29/2009
Catalina Island
Isthmus Reef

Berthellina ilisima

Nikon D300
Dual YS-110 strobes

George Foster

7/31/2009
Los Coronados
Pukey Point

Blood Star
Henricia leviuscula

Nikon D200
Aquatica Housing
Sea & Sea YS-110 strobes
12-24mm lens set at 20mm
f/8, 1/100, ISO 200

Robert Johnson

7/21/2009
Patuxent River, Maryland
Solomon's Island

Probably an Atlantic Sea Nettle
Chrysaora quinquecirrha

Canon PowerShot SD600

Gayle Van Leer

7/28/2009
Point Loma Kelp
75 feet

Tritonia festiva

Sony T900
Sony housing
Internal flash

Roger Uzun

8/1/2009
Santa Barbara Island

Is this the polyclad flatworm
Pseudoceros montereyensis?
(It would be a dark variant... and the red mid-dorsal line is odd.)

Sony XR520v camcorder
Light and Motion Bluefin Pro housing with flat port
Sunray 2000 video lights

Herb Gruenhagen

8/2/2009
La Jolla
In front of the Beach & Tennis Club
8 feet

Bat Ray
Myliobatis californica

Canon G10
Ambient light

Steve Murvine

8/1/2009
Hood Canal, Washington
Fox Island
East wall

Sailfin Sculpin
Nautichthys oculofasciatus

Canon G-9
Ikelite housing
DS-125 TTL strobe

Peter Hergesheimer

8/2/2009
La Jolla
Marine Room
60 feet

Triopha maculata

Canon G9

Steve Gardner

8/1/2009
La Jolla Shores
40 feet

Gould's Bubble Snail
Bulla gouldiana

Sand Dollars
Dendraster excentricus

Olympus c5050z
Single strobe
Inon UWL 100 lens
f/1.8, 1/100, ISO 100

Ryan Mable

7/29/2009
La Jolla Shores

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Sea & Sea 860G
YS-110 strobe

Matt Cerezo

8/1/2009
Los Coronados
North Island
Lobster Shack

California Sea Hare
Aplysia californica

California Golden Gorgonian
Muricea californica

with diver Ryan Mable

Sealife DC600
Sealife Digital Strobe

Rick Kennedy

7/30/2009
Maui, Hawaii
Lahaina

Green Sea Turtle
Chelonia mydas

Sony P8
Sony housing

Scott McGee

8/1/2009
Laguna Beach
Seal Rock
15 feet

California Sea Lions
Zalophus californianus

Nikon D200
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-125 strobes
10.5mm fisheye lens
f/8, 1/100

Tracy Clark

8/1/2009
La Jolla Cove

Giant Kelpfish
Heterostichus rostratus

Giant Kelp
Macrocystis pyrifera

Nikon D70s
14mm lens

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