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Not really.  I'm just an amateur.  Sometimes people offer to buy and oblige.

Thanks for all the comments folks.

The water although distracting is meant to keep the photo from being used without permission.   Don't know if it actually works.

Some photographers put right across the subject.  Impossible to crop off but it ruins the photo IMHO.  I put mine where it is and they way it is as a compromise.

Maybe there is a better way to protect your image and still show it here.

Thanks everone for the nice comments.

Any and all comments, critiques and suggestions are more than welcome.

If you do comment please also give me a rating.

Any and all comments, critiques and suggestions are more than welcome.

If you do comment please also give me a rating.

Any and all comments, advice, critiques are more than welcome.

All I ask is that you also rate this photo too.

Thanks for the comments.

This guy was no bigger than my thumb from tip to first knuggle.

Interestingly the spots and colors are not part of the shell.  What you see is part of the flesh of the animal wrapped around the outside of the shell.

If you critique please also give it a rating.

Any and all comments are welcome.

Very unique and original presentation.

I wonder how it would look if the "magnifying glass" were round instead of square.

I've come back to re-read the comments on this photo and after so much time they are still so very helpful.

I've never printed this shot.  Lately I've been thinking about printing some of my photos and I've always meant to print this one but never have.

The comments here from everybody make me think that the best way to improve this shot is to do some croping to remove that black lower left corner. I recall that it was occupied by a patch of trees.  Should have pointed up a bit higher and got more sky and less of that black spot.

I know I was concentrated on the exposure time and the highway. I liked the lights on the left hand building but should have seen the black lower left and panned my camera to the right.  However....I seem to recall a LARGE street lamp to the right that I had to avoid.

Some skillfull cropping will improve this shot.  I love this pic by the way. Brings back some very nice memories of Atlanta.  Here in San Diego is very nice but I still often have Georgia on my mind.  :-)

I hope you didn't get bitten!

Fantastic detail and composition.

I would blur the background to de-emphasize the upper left corner.

It's too bad that was in the background but I can see how it couldn't be avoided.

Unless you don't think of it as "cheating" I'd suggest blur just the background in Photoshop or....somehow removing that grey animal in the upper left.  It destracts from the main subject.

Love this shot by the way

I don't think anything much is going on in the lower 1/8 of this photo, so I would have cropped it out.

Otherwise...very nice shot.

I love this photo.  Maybe that's because of the memory this wonderful encounter, but also because of the textures and dance of light.

I seem to be alone in this.  I don't care.  I love this shot.

Perhaps its hard for folks to recognize the subject when shot this way.

Perhaps its the almost black and white nature and lack of color in this color photo. 

For me it captures exactly what that experience was like.  Although it's been many years I still smile when I see this shot and never get tired of looking at it.  

This is what it feels like to touch a manatee.  :-D

A fantastic and beautiful photo.

However, this in not a Leopard Shark. It is a Zebra Shark.

Una hermosa foto fantastica y.

Sin embargo, esto no es un tiburon de leopardo. Es un Tiburon de Cebra.

Ya no dice!

Thank you Joaquin Tornel.  I've looked at your portfolio and I'm honored that such a photographer as you would comment on one of my shots.

Lionfish are NOT indigenous to the Caribbean. There they have no predators and are running wild.

A theory is that they escaped from a Miami public aquarium when it was destroyed by hurricane Andrew in 1992.

In Bonaire...they now have a bounty on their spiny heads. Too bad. They are beautiful.

Another 7 out 7!   This is my favorite on of yours so far.

It's perfect!

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If this one doesn't rate a 7 out 7, I don't know what does!

Very nice.  The reflection makes this shot.  Very well composed.  Interesting subject.

Get detail and composition.  Like the tiny hint of blue in the mouth.

Very different in the color and composition.  Most U/W photos tend to be formula...this is different.

Bravo!