March 14, 2016

Manta Allison Vitsky Sallmon

3/12/2016
New South Wales, Australia
Northwest Solitary Island
25 feet

Manta Ray
Manta alfredi

Canon 5D Mk III
Dual Sea & Sea YS250 strobes
Canon 8-15mm lens at 8 mm
f/14, 1/250, ISO 320

Gray Whale Ralph Pace

3/10/2016
Baja California Sur, Mexico
San Ignacio lagoon

Gray Whale
Eschrichtius robustus

Nikon D4S
Aquatica housing
Ambient light

Wobbegong Shark Howard Hall

3/7/2016
Raja Ampat, Indonesia

A juvenile Tasselled Wobbegong Shark
Eucrossorhinos dasypogon

RED camera
Sigma 17-70mm lens

Clownfish Michele Hall

3/7/2016
Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Aljui Bay
Pearl Farm
40 feet

Clownfish
Amphiprion ocellaris

Canon 7D mark ii
Nauticam housing
Ikelite DS160 strobe
100mm lens

Octopus Sandy Dildine

3/10/2016
Laguna Beach
Heisler Park
Tidepools

Octopus
Octopus sp.

The straight thing is a wooden chopstick being used as a pointer.

Olympus TG-3

Tube-dwelling Anemone Vanessa Homyak

3/10/2016
La Jolla Shores
85 feet

Tube-dwelling Anemone
Order Ceriantharia

GoPro 4

Hermissenda Heather Lippert

3/13/2016
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
50 feet

Hermissenda crassicornis

Nikon S1
Single YS-03 strobe

Polycera atra and Polycera hedgpethi Herb Gruenhagen

3/13/2016
La Jolla Shores
Just south of Vallecitos Point

Polycera atra (lower/left)

Polycera hedgpethi (upper/right)

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal flash

Heermann's Gull Roger Uzun

3/7/2016
La Jolla Shores

Heermann's Gull (foreground gull with red beak and black legs)
Larus heermanni

Panasonic HC-VX870K camcorder