Tang Lei

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle cleaned by Yellow Tangs.

 

Your thoughts are always welcome.

Terrific image Mike, the colors help a great deal to convey an fabulous look at the picture. Congratulations!

Hello Mike

 

Wow what a great and lucky encounter.

 

Greetings Richard

 

Hi, Mike, this is an absolutely outstanding piece, love the gorgeous color contrast, fascinating capture!!! Best regards 7/7

Congratulations, this is remarkable.

Bill

Great photo. What kind of waterproof casing to you use for your Nikon 70?

My d70 is housed in an Ikelite housing with Ikelite strobes.

Great photo , nice composition and good subject , I love the color contrast :)

The color play is what drew me to this image, but the detail and lighting is keeping me. Beautiful image! Regards Anthony

This is quite exceptional. Of course, the composition is great, but what's more amazing is the fact that not a single mustard tang got in the way of the turtles face. Considering that these fish were moving constantly, you must have shot a dozen or so images to capture this moment.

 

Great job!

Great picture! We spent all last week snorkeling on the South Kona coast in Honaunau bay. We have lots of pictures of turtles and tangs, but nothing like this!! Where did you take the picture?

 

Best regards - steve

Steve- this was shot on the Big Island at Puako.

excellent picture mike

I like it, but can't help but notice the blue cast that dominates the image except for the Tangs. It looks like they've possibly had their color nicely restored in Photoshop, but for example the white stripe of the fish on the left and the whites on the turtle are still heavily tinged with blue. I wonder what the image would look like with the blue cast removed universally? Regardless, a quite amazing scene you've captured.

great capture, beautiful photo

wonderful image. i like the sharp details on all areas of the subject. plus the contrast is wonderful. like another member observed, the fact that the turtle's face is not blocked by the fishes makes this picture very unique. great shot !

It looks like they're all talking to the turtle. Great picture!

AWESOME!!!! Whaat a capture as well as composition! A neat title for this would be "Curiousity"

 

Thanks again!

 

 

 

 

Wow! Great colors, great photo!

What a truly appropriate name for this photo! This is really beautiful! I just love it!!! Congrats! :)

I like this one better. The colors are fantastic. Though the one titled comin' attcha is pretty amazing too.

fabulous picture, i love how you got all the yellow fish and then you have those 2 odd balls on the left.Sad to know these turtles are endangered

I feel like you captured a private moment between the turtle and the fish and they caught you! This would make a wonderful poster in a childs room or anybody's room for that matter.

I didn't realize Lemon Tangs are "cleaner fish", as I normally see them poking around in people's home aquariums. Glad to finally know what type of fish they are! Great shot.