April 27, 2015

Giant Kelpfish Jami Leslie Feldman

4/26/2015
Catalina Island
30 feet

Giant Kelpfish
Heterostichus rostratus

Hiding in the invasive seaweed
Sargassum horneri

Canon T3i
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
Tokina 10-17mm lens

Conualevia alba Brenda Bridgett

4/22/2015
La Jolla Shores

White Dorid
Conualevia alba

Casio Elixim 1080
Internal flash

Target Shrimp Heather Lippert

4/20/2015
La Jolla Shores
120 feet

Target Shrimp
Sicyonia penicillata

Nikon S1
Dual strobes

Turbansnail David R. Andrew

4/25/2015
Santa Cruz Island
Flame Reef
62 feet

Wavy Turbansnail
Megastraea undosa

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens
f/16, 1/160, ISO 250

Purple Gorgonian Vanessa Homyak

4/21/2015
La Jolla Shores
Secret Garden
110 feet

Purple Gorgonian
Eugorgia rubens

GoPro

Elephant Seal Roger Uzun

4/22/2015
La Jolla Cove

A young Northern Elephant Seal
Mirounga angustirostris

Panasonic HC-VX870 camcorder
Natural light

Doriopsilla spaldingi and Vermillion Rockfish Herb Gruenhagen

4/21/2015
La Jolla Shores
Secret Garden
110 feet

Spalding's Dorid
Doriopsilla spaldingi

A juvenile Vermilion Rockfish
Sebastes miniatus

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal flash

Giant Sea Bass Justin Judd

4/25/2015
Catalina Island
Hen Rock
27 feet

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

Olympus OMD EM-5
Nauticam housing
8mm fisheye lens

Hemphill's Kelp Crab Mark Pidcoe

4/23/2015
La Jolla Shores

Hemphill's Kelp Crab
(undecorated, perhaps just after molting)
Podochela hemphilli

A sabellid worm, probably
Megalomma sp.

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 slave strobes

Sarcastic Fringehead Brian Herold

4/25/2015
La Jolla Shores
60 feet

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800

Krill Weiwei Gao

4/21/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point

Krill
Family Euphausiidae
Nyctiphanes simplex

Canon Elph 300