August 3, 2015

Cabezon Harold Dorr

8/2/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
NOSC Tower

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Nikon D80
Sea & Sea housing
Single SB105 strobe
60mm macro lens
Octopus eggs Kevin Lee

8/1/2015
Palos Verdes
Golf Ball Reef
64 feet

Octopus eggs
Octopus sp.

Nikon D800
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
Whitetail Gregory Dr. Bill Bushing

8/3/2015
Catalina Island
Casino Point Dive Park
30 feet

Whitetail Gregory (aka Whitetail Damsel)
Stegastes leucorus

Sony CX550V HD camcorder
Sargo Walter Chung

8/2/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room Eel Grass Beds

Sargo
Anisotremus davidsoni

Sony a6000
Ambient light
Clark's Anemonefish Ryan Mable

7/29/2015
Bligh Waters, Fiji
Wheat Field
35 feet

Clark's Anemonefish
Amphiprion clarkii

Canon Rebel T1i
Sea & Sea housing
Dual YS-110 strobes
Kelp Dave Rudie

8/2/2015
Point Loma Kelp
10 feet

Giant Kelp
Macrocystis pyrifera

GoPro
Sola 1200
Pacific Seahorse Heather Lippert

8/1/2015
La Jolla Shores
Inshore of the South Walls
15 feet

Pacific Seahorse
Hippocampus ingens

Nikon S1
Fishlight V25
Kelp Bass Scott McGee

8/1/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room
10 feet

Kelp Bass
Paralabrax clathratus

Nikon D800
Ikelite housing Dual DS-161 strobes 105mm strobes
f/11, 1/320, ISO 125
California Sheephead Steve Murvine

8/2/2015
Point Loma
60 feet

California Sheepheads and Kelly Miller
Semicossyphus pulcher

Canon G-15
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-161 strobes
Painted Greenling Wendy Dorr

8/2/2015
Point Loma
North New Hope Rock

Painted Greenling
Oxylebius pictus

Olympus TG4
Olympus housing
Internal flash
California Moray Aaron Halstead

7/25/2015
Laguna Beach
North Crescent Bay
25 feet

California Moray
Gymnothorax mordax

Nikon D90
Dual YS-110a strobes
Nikon 105mm macro
Crab Christopher Huynh

8/1/2015
La Jolla Shores
12 feet

A very small crab (juvenile?)
Unidentified

Olympus EPM1
Intova ISS4000 strobe
14-42mm lens
Small fish Brian Herold

8/2/2015
Palos Verdes
Malaga Cove
15 feet

Small fish in the kelp light

Olympus TG-2
Gopher Rockfish Weiwei Gao

8/2/2015
La Jolla
God's Rock
60 feet

Gopher Rockfish
Sebastes carnatus

Canon Elph 300
Pacific Seahorse Mark Pidcoe

8/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
30 feet

Pacific Seahorse
Hippocampus ingens

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS400 strobes 14-48 lens with +4 diopter f/22, 1/160, ISO 200
Cabezon Vanessa Homyak

7/29/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Ruby E
75 feet

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

GoPro 4 Silver
Polar Pro macro lens
Osprey Bart Gault

7/30/2015
Imperial Beach

Osprey and catch
Pandion haliaetus

Nikon 3300
Nikon 55-300mm lens
Blackeye Goby Peter Brueggeman

8/2/2015
Point Loma
80 feet

Blackeye Goby
Rhinogobiops nicholsii

Nikon D70
Nexus housing
Dual strobes
105mm macro lens
Lobster Andrew Harmer

7/28/2015
Near Point Buchon, CA
Pecho Coast
Exposed at a minus tide

Juvenile California Spiny Lobster
Panulirus interruptus

Olympus TG-3
Wolf Eel David R. Andrew

7/30/2015
La Jolla Shores
61 feet

Juvenile Wolf Eel
Anarrhichthys ocellatus

Nikon D7000
Dual Ikelite DS160 strobes
60mm lens with Kenko 1.4 teleconverter
f/18, 1/200, ISO 250
Dendronotus iris Roger Uzun

7/30/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Ruby E
80 feet

A Rainbow Dendronotus
Dendronotus iris

on a Tube-dwelling Anemone (which they eat)
Order Ceriantharia

Canon XA-20 camcorder
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights
Sarcastic Fringehead John H. Moore

7/31/2015
La Jolla Shores
Above the South Walls

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Nikon D200
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Sea & Sea YS-110 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens
f/16, 1/200, ISO 400
Polyclad Flatworm Phil Garner

8/2/2015
Palos Verdes
Golf Ball Reef
65 feet

Polyclad Flatworm
Eurylepta californica

Nikon D700
60mm lens
f/40, 1/200
Octopus Jami Leslie Feldman

8/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
50 feet

Two Octopuses fight over a shrimp
Octopus sp.

Canon T3i
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
Divers Matt Cerezo

8/2/2015
La Jolla Shores

Divers exiting

Sealife DC1400
Basking Shark Howard Hall

7/24/2015
Isle of Mull, Scotland

A 20-foot Basking Shark
Cetorhinus maximus

RED Epic 5k camera
Canon 8-15mm lens @ 15mm