Photos of the Week #261

April 19, 2010

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Steve Haynes
First submission to POTW!

4/19/2010
La Jolla Shores
South Walls

Hemphill's Kelp Crab
Podochela hemphilli

Nikon D200
Sea & Sea housing
Dual YS-110 strobes (TTL)
60mm lens

John H. Moore
First submission to POTW!

4/19/2010
La Jolla Shores
South Walls

Juvenile Vermilion Rockfish
Sebastes miniatus

Nikon D200
Sea & Sea housing
Dual YS-110 strobes (TTL)
60mm lens

David Dirig

4/17/2010
La Jolla Shores

Spotted Cusk Eel
Chilara taylori

Nikon D80
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-125 strobes (TTL)
60mm lens

Herb Gruenhagen

4/18/2010
La Jolla Shores
Main Wall

Sheep Crab
Loxorhynchus grandis

Sea & Sea 2G
Single YS-110 strobe

Peter Brueggeman

4/17/2010
Point Loma
80 feet

Giant Spined Stars
Pisaster giganteus

Fragile Tube Worm
Salmacinia tribranchiata
(the orange structure in front and to the right of the nearer sea star)

Giant Kelp and holdfast
Macrocystis pyrifera

Olympus 8080
Ikelite housing
Ikelite DS51 strobe

Matt Cerezo

4/14/2010
Los Coronados
North Island
Lobster Shack
30 feet

An unusual Bat Star
Asterina miniata

Sealife DC1000
Sealife Digital Strobe

Margaret Webb

4/16/2010
Blue water off Point Vincente

A comb jelly with commensal fish
Leucothea pulchra

Olympus E-330
Dual DS-125 strobes
14-54mm lens

Mark Pidcoe

4/17/2010
7 Fathoms Reef
Point Loma
85 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Sea & Sea DX750G
Intova ISS2000 strobe
Wide angle lens

Scott Gietler

4/12/2010
Midway to Catalina
(Blue Water)

Pelagic Invertebrates

Nikon D300
Dual strobes
60mm lens behind a dome port

Steve Murvine

4/18/2010
Point Loma
75 feet

Hopkin's Rose
Okenia rosacea

Canon G-9
Ikelite housing
DS-125 strobe

Gayle Van Leer

4/18/2010
Point Loma Kelp
30 feet

Proliferating Anemones
Epiactis prolifera

Sony T900
Sony housing
Internal flash

Walter Heim

4/18/2010
La Jolla
God's Rock

Reef silhouette

Canon 20D
Dual SB105 strobes
Tokina 10-17mm lens

Tracy Clark

4/17/2010
La Jolla Shores

Polycera atra

Nikon D70s
60mm lens

Kim Mitchell

4/18/2010
La Jolla Shores
Main Wall
55 feet

Dendronotus sp.

Canon Powershot SD880

Walt Conklin

4/17/2010
Catalina Island
Hens Rock
30 feet

Diver Mary Feuer photographing Blacksmith at the edge of the Kelp

Nikon D300
Ikelite housing
Ambient light
10mm lens
f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 200

Phil Garner

4/18/2010
Palos Verdes
Wreck of the Avalon

The colonial cup coral
Coenocyathus bowersi

Sea & Sea DX-1G
f/9.1, 1/200

Kevin Lee

4/18/2010
2 miles off Palos Verdes

The Leptomedusa
Mitrocoma cellularia

Nikon D300
Dual YS-110-a strobes

Spencer Tuck

4/17/2010
Point Loma
Ancient Sea Cliffs
Train Wheels
80 feet

Chromodoris macfarlandi

Canon 50D
Ikelite housing
DS125 & DS160 Ikelite strobes
60mm lens

John Butler, PhD
National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA

4/11/2010
Offshore of South Carolina
168 meters (551 feet)
[where?]

Sea Urchin
Coelopleurus floridanus

Photo taken by ROV

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