July 27, 2015

Pacific Seahorse Matt Cerezo

7/26/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
40 feet

Pacific Seahorse
Hippocampus ingens

Sealife DC1400

Parchment Tube Worms Vanessa Homyak

7/21/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
55 feet

Parchment Tube Worms spawning
Chaetopterus sp.

GoPro 4
Polar Pro Macro Lens

Octopus Gayle Van Leer

7/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
60 feet

Octopus
Octopus sp.

consuming a Target Shrimp
Sicyonia penicillata

Sony A6000
Sea & Sea housing
Beneath The Surface frame/tray with flex arms
Continuous lighting with two Sola lights

Treefish David R. Andrew

7/25/2015
Point Loma
90 feet

Juvenile Treefish
Sebastes serriceps

Nikon D7000
Dual Ikelite DS160 strobes
60mm lens with Kenko 1.4 Teleconverter
f/18, 1/200, ISO 250

Gem Murex Peter Brueggeman

7/26/2015
Point Loma
80 feet

Gem Murex
Maxwellia gemma

Nikon D70
Nexus housing
Dual strobes
105mm macro lens

Mermaid Prof. Charles Tu

7/22/2015
La Jolla Shores

Charles proving that he wasn't narced when he said that he saw a mermaid!

Sony RX100

A skeleton Herb Gruenhagen

7/21/2015
La Jolla Shores
100 feet

remains of what looks to be a pinniped

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

Brown Cup Coral Phil Garner

7/25/2015
Rancho Palos Verdes
Point Vicente
45 feet

Brown Cup Coral
Paracyathus stearnsi

Nikon D700
60mm lens
f/14, 1/320

California Sheephead David Hershman

7/25/2015
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
30 feet

California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

Sony RX-100
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes

Heather Lippert Heather Lippert

7/24/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
40 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Nikon S1
Fishlight V25

Polyclad Flatworm Bob Austin

7/26/2015
Point Loma Kelp
80 feet

The polyclad flatworm
Pseudoceros montereyensis

Canon Powershot G16
Internal flash w/diffuser
f/4, 1/250, ISO 200

Hermissenda Gene Shabinaw

7/22/2015
San Miguel Island
Wycoff Ledge
55 feet

Horned Aeolid
Hermissenda crassicornis

Canon 7D
Nauticam housing
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
60mm macro lens

Polyclad Flatworm Roger Uzun

7/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
Secret Garden
100 feet

Blackeye Goby
Coryphopterus nicholsi

The polyclad flatworm
Pseudoceros luteus

Canon XA-20 camcorder
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights

Octopus Walter Chung

7/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
55 feet

Octopus deep in a hole
Octopus sp.

Sony a6000
Sola 1200

California Scorpionfish Brian Herold

7/22/2015
La Jolla Shores
Main Wall

California Scorpionfish
Scorpaena guttata

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800

Mantis Shrimp Christopher Huynh

7/24/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
80 feet

Mantis Shrimp
Hemisquilla californiensis

Olympus EPM1
Intova ISS4000
14-42mm lens

California Sea Lion Tiffany Poon

7/25/2015
Off Long Beach
Eureka Oil Rig
25 feet

California Sea Lion
Zalophus californianus

Olympus PEN E-PL1
Dual Sea & Sea YS-110a strobes
14-42mm lens

Hermissenda Steve Murvine

7/25/2015
Point Loma
75 feet

Horned Aeolid
Hermissenda crassicornis

Canon G-9
Ikelite housing
Sola 800
Inon 165 macro lens

Garibaldi Mark Pidcoe

7/25/2015
La Jolla Cove

Garibaldi
Hypsypops rubicundus

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 strobes
f/13, 1/160, ISO 200

Megalomma sp. Kevin Lee

7/25/2015
Rancho Palos Verdes
Little Reef
60 feet

A sabellid worm
Megalomma sp.

Nikon D800
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes

Horn Shark Weiwei Gao

7/23/2015
La Jolla Shores
45 feet

Horn Shark
Heterodontus francisci

Canon Elph 300