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April 20, 2015

Dirona picta Weiwei Gao

4/16/2015
La Jolla Shores
North of Vallecitos Point

Colorful Dirona
Dirona picta

Canon Elph 300
Cuthona albocrusta Kevin Lee

4/18/2015
Palos Verdes
Point Vicente
Little Reef

White-crusted Aeolid
Cuthona albocrusta

Nikon D800
Dual YS-D1 strobes
Sheephead and Scorpionfish Clint Anderson

4/18/2015
Catalina Island
West Side
90 feet

California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

California Scorpionfish
Scorpaena guttata

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Olympus E-PL3
Single YS-02 strobe
Wide-angle lens
Wreck of the Palawan Roger Carlson

4/18/2015
Santa Monica Bay
Wreck of the Palawan

Olympus OM-D EM-5
Nauticam housing
Sola 3000 light
8mm Panasonic lens
Honeycomb Rockfish Roger Uzun

4/16/2015
La Jolla
Boundary Wall
165 feet

Honeycomb Rockfish
Sebastes umbrosus

Orange Gorgonian
Adelogorgia phyllosclera

Canon XA20 camcorder
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights
Spanish Shawl Jim Lyle

4/18/2015
Redondo Beach
The Barge
75 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Olympus OMD-EM5
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
Zuiko 12-50mm lens at 43mm and 15x dioptre
California Golden Gorgonian Brian Herold

4/18/2015
La Jolla Cove

California Golden Gorgonian
Muricea californica

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800
Limacia cockerelli Merry Passage

4/18/2015
Palos Verdes
Little Reef
60 feet

Cockerell's Dorid
Limacia cockerelli

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens and +10 diopter
f/32, 1/250, ISO 200
Giant Sea Bass Jim Rosenberg

4/18/2015
Catalina Island

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

Canon T3i
Inon 240z strobes
Sarcastic Fringehead Herb Gruenhagen

4/19/2015
La Jolla Shores

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal Strobe
Horn Shark Heather Lippert

4/19/2015
La Jolla Shores
Secret Garden
100 feet

Horn Shark
Heterodontus francisci

Nikon S1
Dual strobes
Navanax David R. Andrew

4/14/2015
La Jolla Shores
60 feet

Mating Navanax
Navanax inermis

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 strobes
Nikon 60 mm
f/16, 1/200, ISO 200
Giant Sea Bass Christopher Huynh

4/17/2015
La Jolla Shores
25 feet

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

GoPro 3+ Black Edition
Archon D11V video light
Ronquil eggs Brenda Bridgett

4/18/2015
La Jolla Shores

A Ronquil guarding eggs
Family Bathymasteridae

Casio Exilim 1080
Internal flash
California Sheephead Margaret Webb

4/18/2015
Redondo Beach
The Barge
71 feet

California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

Nikon D750
Nauticam housing
Dual DS-125 strobes
105mm lens
California Spiny Lobster Vanessa Homyak

4/13/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Wall
110 feet

California Spiny Lobster in front of a trashcan
Panulirus interruptus

GoPro
Pipefish John H. Moore

4/19/2015
La Jolla Shores

Pipefish
Syngnathus sp.

Sand Dollars
Dendraster excentricus

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

4/18/2015
Palos Verdes
Little Reef
50 feet

Mating Cockerell's Dorids
Limacia cockerelli

Nikon D700
60mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter
f/51, 1/250