Photos of the Week #288

October 25, 2010

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Keith Lewis
First submission to POTW!

10/21/2010
La Jolla Shores
South Walls

Common Thresher Shark
Alopias vulpinus

Canon G9

Terry Strait

10/18/2010
La Jolla Shores
North Wall

Diver Steve Lawton and an

Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola

Nikon D40x
Sigma 10-17mm at 10mm

Steve Murvine

10/20/2010
Indonesia
North Sulawesi
Bunaken Preserve

Blue-ring Octopus
Hapalochlaena maculosa

Canon G-9
Ikelite housing
Dual Ikelight DS-125 strobes

Scott McGee

10/23/2010
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Yukon

White-plumed Anemones
Metridium farcimen

below the Forward Guns

Nikon D200
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-125 strobes
10.5mm fisheye lens
f/7.1, 1/60

David Hershman

10/23/2010
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Yukon

Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola

Olympus Stylus 1030SW
Olympus housing
Single strobe

Clint Crowe

10/18/2010
Kona, Hawaii
Pahoehoe Beach Park
50 feet

Divided Flatworm
Pseudoceros dimidiatus

on Lobe Coral
Porites lobata

Canon G11
Canon WP-DC34 housing

Peter Brueggeman

10/23/2010
Point Loma
90 feet

Giant Spined Star
Pisaster giganteus

...plus a Spanish Shawl, strawberry anemones, a red gorgonian, and much more

Olympus 8080
Ikelite housing
Ikelite DS51 strobe and Sea and Sea YS120 slave strobe

Herb Gruenhagen

10/24/2010
La Jolla Shores
Sand Flats
15 feet

Northern Kelp Crab
Pugettia producta

Sea & Sea DX-2G
Single Sea & Sea YS-110 strobe

Matt Cerezo

10/23/2010
Catalina Island
Casino Point Underwater Park

Giant Kelpfish
Heterostichus rostratus

Sealife DC1000
Sealife Digital Strobe

Dave McNair

10/23/2010
Hood Canal, Washington
Seabeck Marina
20 feet

Dirona albolineata

on Dave's pumpkin, after he carved it!

Canon Powershot A710is
Internal flash

Scott Gietler

10/24/2010
Off Long Beach
Oil Rig Elly

Diver Carolyn Wang and an

Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola

Nikon D300
Tokina 10-17mm lens
f/7, 1/100, ISO 320

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