May 11, 2015

White-spotted Rose Anemone Gayle Van Leer

5/10/2015
Point Loma
60 feet

White-spotted Rose Anemone
Urticina lofotensis

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

Amphissa versicolor eggs Merry Passage

5/10/2015
Palos Verdes
Little Reef
50 feet

Egg capsules of the snail
Amphissa versicolor

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 105mm lens
f/45, 1/160, ISO 200

Kellet's Whelks and eggs Clint Crowe

5/7/2015
Mission Bay
21 feet

Kellet's Whelks and eggs (foreground)
Kelletia kelletii

Canon G11

Guadalupe Cardinalfish Cary Humphries

5/9/2015
San Clemente Island
Pyramid Cove
60 feet

Guadalupe Cardinalfish
Apogon guadalupensis

GoPro 3 Hero
Big Blue 2800 lighting

Sargassum horneri Gene Shabinaw

5/9/2015
Catalina Island
Eagle Reef
45 feet

A diver swims through the invasive seaweed
Sargassum horneri

Canon 7D
Nauticam housing with a Zen mini 4" dome
Dual Ikelite 160 strobes
Tokina 10-17mm fisheye lens

Scythe Butterflyfish Roger Carlson

5/6/2015
Catalina Island
Rock Quarry
55 feet

Scythe Butterflyfish
Chaetodon falcifer

Olympus OMD EM5
Nauticam housing
Sola 3000 video light
Panasonic 8mm lens

Octopus Weiwei Gao

5/10/2015
La Jolla Shores
50 feet

A very small octopus on a pair of sunglasses
Octopus sp.

Canon Elph 300

Turbot Brian Herold

5/9/2015
La Jolla Shores
Main Wall

Either a Spotted Turbot or a C-O Sole
Pleuronichthys sp.

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800

La Jolla Cliffs Roger Uzun

5/5/2015
La Jolla Cove
+85 feet

Sea Lions and Cormorants on the cliffs

DJI Phantom 3 Quadcopter

Fish and a Jelly Jonathan Lavan

5/10/2015
Fiji
Whole Shebang
60 feet

Fish hiding on a jelly
Unidentified

Nikon D300
Ikelite 160 strobes on full
Sola 800 focus light
60mm lens
f/10, 1/200, ISO 200

Dendronotus subramosus Kevin Lee

5/10/2015
Palos Verdes
Little Reef
45 feet

Dendronotus subramosus

Nikon D800
Dual YS-D1 strobes

Okenia rosacea Heather Lippert

5/9/2015
Point Loma
Three Fingers Reef
65 feet

Hopkin's Rose
Okenia rosacea

Nikon S1
Dual strobes

MacFarland's Chromodorid Skip Greenhoe

5/9/2015
Point Loma
Three Fingers

MacFarland's Chromodorid
Felimida macfarlandi

Canon T1i
Sea & Sea housing
Sea & Sea YS-110a strobes
f/16, 1/160

Chestnut Cowry Phil Garner

5/10/2015
Palos Verdes
Little Reef

Chestnut Cowry laying eggs
Cypraea spadicea

Nikon D700
f/22, 1/250