1/4/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
55 feet

Three-lined Aeolid
Flabellina trilineata

Olympus E-PL5
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
60mm lens

1/4/2015
Point Loma
70 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

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

1/1/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
75 feet

Fragile Rainbow Star
Astrometis sertulifera

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe

1/4/2015
Point Loma
15 feet

Five Green Abalone
Haliotis fulgens

Sony Nex5
Sola light

1/4/2015
Palos Verdes
Neptune Cove
Underwater Arch

The nudibranch
Trapania velox

Nikon D700
f/25, 1/250, ISO 200

1/4/2015
Palos Verdes
Neptune Cove
Underwater Arch

Yellowfin Fringehead
Neoclinus stephensae

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 105mm lens
f/29, 1/250, ISO 200

1/3/2015
Palos Verdes
White Point Hyperion Pipe
60 feet

Laguna Beach Aeolid
Cuthona lagunae

Nikon D800
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
60mm lens plus 1.4x teleconvertor

1/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point

Very small juvenile California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

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

1/3/2015
Point Loma
95 feet

A somewhat larger juvenile California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

Nikon D70
Subaquatic housing
100mm macro lens

1/4/2015
Laguna Beach
Crescent Bay
30 feet

An adult male (left) and adult femaile (right) California Sheephead
Semicossyphus pulcher

Elph 300

1/4/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Wreck of the Ruby E
75 feet

Red Gorgonian
Lophogorgia chilensis

GoPro

1/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls
65 feet

Mantis Shrimp
Hemisquilla californiensis

Olympus E-PL3
YS-02 strobes
Macro lens

1/3/2015
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
15 feet

The notaspidean opisthobranch
Tylodina fungina

Nikon D800
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-161 strobes
60mm macro lens
f/14, 1/320, ISO 125

1/1/2015
La Jolla Shores

A Speckled Sanddab
Citharichthys stigmaeus

eating a worm
Family Eunicidae or Onuphidae

Olympus E-PM1
Three Intova ISS4000 slave strobes

1/2/2015
San Luis Obispo
Pecho Coast
25 feet

Grass Rockfish
Sebastes rastrelliger

Olympus TG-3
Internal flash

12/29/2014
Encinitas
Swami's
40 feet

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

Nikon D300
Tokina 11-17mm lens

1/2/2015
Los Coronados
Lobster Shack
45 feet

Two California Morays fighting for territory
Gymnothorax mordax

Canon XA20 camcorder
Sealux housing
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights

1/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
50 feet

Ochre Star
Pisaster ochraceus

Olympus C5050Z
Ikelite housing
Dual strobes

1/3/2015
Roatan, Honduras

Trumpetfish
Aulostomus maculatus

Canon G-15
Ikelite housing
Dual DS-161 strobes

12/29/2014
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
22 feet

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Nikon D7000
Dual Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobes
60mm lens
f/11, 1/320, ISO 200

1/4/2015
Laguna Beach
Brooks Street
70 feet

Octopus
Octopus sp.

Olympus E-PM1
Sea & Sea YS-110 strobe

1/2/2015
Catalina Island
Riffe Reef

Juvenile Garibaldi
Hypsypops rubicundus

Olympus E-PL3
Sea & Sea YS-60 strobe
Olympus macro conversion lens

1/2/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
45 feet

Banded Guitarfish
Zapteryx exasperata

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 strobes
Tokina 10-17mm lens at 17mm
f/4.5, 1/30, ISO 400

12/30/2014
Scripps Canyon
Sumner Branch
100 feet

Doriopsilla spaldingi

Sony RX100
Sola 2000
f/5.6, 1/100, ISO 125

12/27/2014
Scripps Canyon

George E. Spalding III in his natural habitat
Diverus spaldingi

1/5/2015
La Jolla Cove
42 feet

Giant Sea Bass
Stereolepis gigas

Nikon D300
Ikelite housing
Tokina 11-17mm lens
f/2.8, 1/250, ISO 640