February 9, 2015

Zebra Goby John Duddy

2/7/2015
Scripps Canyon
Sumner Branch
95 feet

Zebra Goby
Lythrypnus zebra

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

Janolus barbarensis Gayle Van Leer

2/8/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
50 feet

Santa Barbara Janolus
Janolus barbarensis

Sony DSC-RX100
Nauticam housing
Beneath The Surface frame/tray with flex arms
Continuous lighting with two Sola lights

Brown Shrimp Mark Pidcoe

2/3/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch

Brown Shrimp eye
Farfantepenaeus californiensis

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 slave strobes
60mm Macro lens at 1:1
f/22, 1/160, ISO 200

Octopus Steve Gardner

2/3/2015
La Jolla Shores
65 feet

Octopus
Octopus sp.

Olympus C5050Z
Ikelite housing
Two strobes

Polycera atra David R. Andrew

2/5/2015
La Jolla Shores
68 feet

Two Black Dorids
Polycera atra

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens with 1.4 Kenko teleconverter
f/18, 1/160, ISO 200

Ocean Whitefish John H. Moore

2/7/2015
La Jolla Shores

Juvenile Ocean Whitefish
Caulolatilus princeps

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

Deepwater Blenny Roger Uzun

2/7/2015
Farnsworth Banks
148 feet

Deepwater Blenny
Cryptotrema corallinum

Canon XA20 camcorder
Sealux housing
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lighting

Blue-ring Top Snail Vanessa Homyak

2/8/2015
La Jolla Shores
Secret Garden
118 feet

Blue-ring Top Snail
Calliostoma annulatum

on Lacy Bryozoan
Phidolopora labiata

iPhone 5

Limpet Adam Obaza

2/6/2015
Palos Verdes
Honeymoon Cove
Intertidal

Giant Keyhole Limpet
Megathura crenulata

Canon T1i
50mm lens

Horn Shark Weiwei Gao

2/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point

Horn Shark
Heterodontus francisci

Canon Elph 300

Hermissenda crassicornis Herb Gruenhagen

2/8/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
55 feet

Hermissenda crassicornis

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

Galapagos Shark Chris Lever

1/31/2015
Galapagos Islands
Wolf Island
85 feet

Galapagos Shark
Carcharhinus galapagensis

Olympus OMD-EM-5
Lumix 8mm fisheye
f/3.5, 1/160, ISO 500

Garibaldi John Bibb

2/8/2015
Catalina Island
40 feet

Garibaldi
Hypsypops rubicundis

plus a giant kelpfish, juvenile kelp bass, and juvenile California sheephead

Nikon D800
Nautican housing
Dual Ikelite strobes
f/8, 1/100, ISO 250