February 16, 2015

Santa Barbara Janolus Weiwei Gao

2/15/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
50 feet

Two Santa Barbara Janolus
Janolus barbarensis

Canon Elph 300

Yellowfin Fringehead Jovan Shepherd

2/13/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room
35 feet

Yellowfin Fringehead
Neoclinus stephensae

Olympus E-PL5
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1
60mm lens

Flabellina pricei Mark Pidcoe

2/14/2015
La Jolla Shores
East of Main Wall
20 feet

Price's Aeolid
Flabellina pricei

Note also the polyps of the tubulariid hydroid it feeds on

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 slave strobes

Triopha maculata Lucas Traurig

2/11/2015
La Jolla Shores
58 feet

Spotted Dorid
Triopha maculata

Sealife DC1400
Seadragon strobe

Scallop Clint Anderson

2/15/2015
La Jolla
Anchor Rock
60 feet

Juvenile Scallop (odd shaped!)
Crassadoma gigantea

Olympus E-PL3
Dual YS-02 strobes
Macro lens

Doto amyra Phil Garner

2/15/2015
Palos Verdes
Golf Ball Reef
65 feet

A Doto amyra with a full stomach (the brighter white spots inside the body are not eggs, they're branches of its digestive ducts)

Nikon D700
85mm lens

Solitary Hydroid John H. Moore

2/15/2015
La Jolla Shores

A solitary hydroid
Tubularia marina

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

Bluebanded Goby Herb Gruenhagen

2/15/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
55 feet

Bluebanded Goby
Lythrypnus dalli

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

Monkeyface Prickleback Brian Herold

2/15/2015
Monterey
Breakwater
10 feet

Monkeyface Prickleback
Cebidichthys violaceus

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800

Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks Chris Lever

2/1/2015
Galapagos Islands
Wolf Island
85 feet

Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks
Sphyrna lewini

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

Sarcastic Fringehead Roger Uzun

2/12/2015
La Jolla Shores
125 feet

Canned Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Canon XA20 camcorder
Sealux housing
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights

Tuna Crab Merry Passage

2/14/2015
Palos Verdes
Golf Ball Reef West
20 feet

Tuna Crab
Pleuroncodes planipes

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 105mm lens
f/14, 1/250, ISO 200