October 19, 2015

Crocodile Howard Hall

10/15/2015
Papua New Guinea
New Britain Island

Saltwater Crocodile (4.5 feet)
Crocodylus porosus

RED cinema camera

Giant Kelpfish Heather Lippert

10/17/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
40 feet

Juvenile Giant Kelpfish
Heterostichus rostratus

Nikon S1
Single Sea & Sea YS-03 strobe
V-25 Fishlight

Mottled Pea Crab Bob Austin

10/15/2015
La Jolla Shores
40 feet

Mottled Pea Crab
Opisthopus transversus

Canon G16
f/5, 1/250, ISO 100

Banded Guitarfish Jovan Shepherd

10/17/2015
La Jolla Shores
30 feet

Diver William Ung filming a Banded Guitarfish
Zapteryx exasperata

Olympus E-PL5
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
12-50mm lens lens

Pilot Whales Jerry Allen

10/10/2015
10 miles west of Mission Beach

Short-finned Pilot Whales
Globicephala macrorhynchus

Nikon D700
Sealux housing
Available light
17-35mm lens

Banded Guitarfish Tiffany Poon

10/15/2015
La Jolla Shores
60 feet

Banded Guitarfish
Zapteryx exasperata

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

Flabellina trilineata Herb Gruenhagen

10/18/2015
La Jolla Shores
North of the Southern Crap Patch

Three-lined Aeolid
Flabellina trilineata

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal flash

Flatfish Christopher Huynh

10/16/2015
La Jolla Shores
25 feet

Juvenile flatfish
Unidentified

Olympus EPM1
Intova ISS4000 strobe
60mm lens

Pacific Seahorse Mark Pidcoe

10/17/2015
La Jolla Shores
In front of the main lifeguard tower
Free-floating in 20 feet

Pacific Seahorse
Hippocampus ingens

Olympus E-PM1
3 Intova ISS4000 strobes

Scaleworm Kevin Lee

10/17/2015
Palos Verdes
Bluff Point

Scaleworm found under limpet
Arctonoe pulchra

Nikon D800
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes

Giant Sea Bass Roger Carlson

10/14/2015
Santa Barbara Island
80 feet

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

Olympus OM-D EM-5
Nauticam housing
Ambient light
Panasonic 8mm fisheye lens

Happy Birthday! Steve Murvine

10/18/2015
Point Loma
75 feet

Happy Birthday to Weiwei Gao!

canon G-15
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes

Sevengill Shark Weiwei Gao

10/17/2015
Point Loma
Kinane Pass
60 feet

Sevengill Shark
Notorynchus cepedianus

Canon 70D
Tokina 10-17mm lens at 10mm