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January 19, 2015

Ocean Sunfish Ralph Pace

1/19/2015
Outside Tanner Bank and Cortes Bank

Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola

Canon 5d mark II
Aquatica housing
Tuna Crab Brian Herold

1/17/2015
Point Loma
Christmas Reef
10 feet

Tuna Crab
Pleuroncodes planipes

Olympus TG-2
Sola 800 light
Kelp Rockfish Steve Murvine

1/18/2015
Point Loma
Christmas Reef
65 feet

Kelp Rockfish
Sebastes atrovirens

Club-tipped Anemones (Strawberry Anemones)
Corynactis californica

Canon G-15
Ikelite housing
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Ronquil Herb Gruenhagen

1/18/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point

Ronquil
Family Bathymasteridae

Sea & Sea 2G
Internal strobe
Doto Amyra Weiwei Gao

1/13/2015
La Jolla Shores
South Walls

Doto amyra

Canon Elph 300
Moss Crab Peter Brueggeman

1/18/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Yukon
85 feet

Moss Crab
Loxorhynchus crispatus

Nikon D70
Nexus housing
Dual strobes
California Scorpionfish Phil Garner

1/17/2015
Palos Verdes
Hawthorne Reef
75 feet

California Scorpionfish
Scorpaena guttata

Nikon D700
60mm lens
f/13, 1/250
California Scorpionfish Clint Anderson

1/14/2015
La Jolla Shores

Juvenile California Scorpionfish
Scorpaena guttata

Olympus E-PL3
YS-02 strobes
Wide-angle lens
Brown Rockfish Steve Gardner

1/14/2015
La Jolla Shores
55 feet

Brown Rockfish
Sebastes auriculatus

Olympus C5050Z
Ikelite housing
Dual strobes
Spanish Shawl Jim Rosenberg

1/18/2015
Point Loma

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Canon T3i
One Inon Strobe with fiber snoot
Tuna Crab Margaret Webb

1/13/2015
Off Long Beach
Eureka Oil Rig

Tuna Crab
Pleuroncodes planipes

Nikon D200
Nexus housing
Ikelite strobes
Tokina 10-17mm lens
Chromodoris macfarlandi David R. Andrew

1/16/2015
Scripps Canyon
107 feet

Chromodoris macfarlandi

Nikon D7000
Sea & Sea housing
Dual Ikelite DS-160 strobes
Nikon 60mm lens with 1.4 Kenko teleconverter
f/16, 1/160, ISO 250
Anemone Vanessa Homyak

1/13/2015
La Jolla Shores
65 feet

Anemone
Unidentified

iPhone 5
Watershot case
Navanax and Sea Hare Roger Uzun

1/14/2015
La Jolla
Marine Room Canyon
165 feet

A Navanax
Navanax inermis

attempting to eat a California Sea Hare
Aplysia californica

Canon XA20 camcorder
Sealux housing
Keldan Luna 4 Flux lights
Sarcastic Fringehead Bob Austin

1/17/2015
La Jolla Shores
Vallecitos Point
55 feet

Sarcastic Fringehead
Neoclinus blanchardi

Canon Powershot G-16
Fantasea housing
Internal strobe
f/8, 1/250, ISO 125
Convict Tang Dave Rudie

1/12/2015
Lanai, Hawaii
10 feet

Mostly Convict Tang
Acanthurus triostegus

GoPro
Yukon Bob Bayer

1/18/2015
San Diego's Wreck Alley
Yukon

The Yukon wreck

Nikon D700
Ikelite housing
Dual Ikelite DS125 strobes
Sigma 15mm fisheye lens
Balloonfish Chad Arnold

1/12/2015
Roatan, Honduras
Dixies

Balloonfish
Diodon holocanthus

Canon G9
DS-160 strobe
Doto amyra Jovan Shepherd

1/18/2015
La Jolla Shores
Crap Patch
58 feet

Doto amyra

Olympus E-PL5
Dual YS-D1 strobes
60mm lens with Subsea 10x diopter
Ronquil Kevin Lee

1/17/2015
Redondo Beach
Golf Ball Reef West
60 feet

Ronquil
Family Bathymasteridae

Nikon D800
Single YS-D1 strobe
60mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter
Corambe pacifica Merry Passage

1/18/2015
Redondo Beach
Golf Ball Reef West
15 feet

The nudibranch
Corambe pacifica

Nikon D700
Dual Ikelite DS-161 strobes
Nikon 105mm lens
f/32, 1/250, ISO 200