October 20, 2014

Finescale Triggerfish Jovan Shepherd

10/18/2014
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
55 feet

Finescale Triggerfish
Balistes polylepis

Olympus EPL-5
Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe
14-42mm lens

Red Octopus Mark Pidcoe

10/14/2014
La Jolla Shores
50 feet

Red Octopus
Octopus rubescens

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 slave strobes
14-48mm lens at 32mm
ISO 400, f/22, 1/125

Bay Blenny Weiwei Gao

10/18/2014
Mission Bay

Bay Blenny
Hippsoblennius gentilis

Sarcastic Fringehead John Duddy

10/16/2014
La Jolla Shores

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Sony NEX-5n
Nauticam housing
Ikelite DS-51 strobe
30mm macro lens

Diver and Mola mola Steve Murvine

10/11/2014
Offshore San Diego

Diver and three

Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola

Canon G-15
Ikelite housing
Ambient light
ISO 200, f/4, 1/320

Eubranchus rustyus Kevin Lee

10/11/2014
Palos Verdes
Golf Ball Reef

Eubranchus rustyus

Nikon D800
Dual YS D-1 strobes
60mm + 1.4x Kenko teleconvertor + 10x SubSee wet diopter

Acanthodoris rhodoceras Roger Uzun

10/10/2014
Catalina Island

Acanthodoris rhodoceras

Reef scene David Andrew

10/18/2014
Oceanside
Buccaneer Pipe
70 feet

Reef scene

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 Strobes
Tokina 10-17mm lens at 15mm
ISO 250, f/8, 1/80

Reef scene Jim Rosenberg

10/15/2014
La Paz, Mexico

Reef scene

Canon T3i
Tikona 10-17mm lens

Brown Shrimp Herb Gruenhagen

10/14/2014
La Jolla Shores
55 feet

Brown Shrimp
Penaeus californicus

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

Polka-dot Batfish Chris Lever

10/12/2014
Riviera Beach, Florida
Blue Heron Ridge
12 feet

Polka-dot Batfish
Ogcocephalus cubifrons

Olympus OMD-EM-5
Dual YS-D1 strobes
Olympus 12-50mm at 32mm
ISO 200, f/16, 1/200

Giant Kelpfish Steve Gardner

10/14/2014
La Jolla Shores
50 feet

Giant Kelpfish
Heterostichus rostratus

Olympus C5050Z
Two strobes

White Shark Cary Humphries

10/14/2014
Guadalupe Island, Mexico

White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias

Pacific Seahorse John H. Moore

10/17/2014
La Jolla Shores

Pacific Seahorse
Hippocampus ingens

Nikon D200
Sea & Sea housing
Dual YS-110 strobes
ISO 400, f/9, 1/160