single photos Orange Plumose Anemone

More warm color from a cold place... :>)

Our undersea world never ceases to amaze me. What amazing color you have captured. This is so soft and warm.

Wow what a wonderful macro shot, perfect!!!!

monochromatic and simple. organic and creepy. very nice.

Andrew, you have a real talent for capturing the underwater world. Another beauty here.. colors are just gorgeous.. and that luminosity again coming through the bulbous center and the "petals/tentacles" (don't know their technical term) If I were to pick at this, I would only say that perhaps I would've chosen a different way to crop this.. either less cropping above or a more aggressive crop.. like about 1/5 of the top. What do you think?

Hi Margaret--this is the uncropped original; I did the above version only because I thought too much of the out-of-focus orange at the bottom got a little distracting. But as always, I'm open to suggestions... BTW, they are tentacles :>)

Hi Andrew, thanks for confirming the name of the tentacles :-) Yes, cropping out the bottom was definitely a good decision. I guess I was referring more to the top part, and perhaps I used the wrong term. Framing the anemone might've been more accurate. But then again, you're dealing with a moving object in the water so I'm sure it's not as easily done ;-) Either way, it's very beautiful.

I like the soft warm colors and the luminous glow.

Nice composition too.

I would have liked to see more of the top of the anemone, and not have the tentacles on the left cut off.