voets

No make-up and still very colourful. This scorpionfish is a real

beauty queen

A golden rule in Underwater Photography is NOT to shoot straight down.

Breaking that rule sometimes gives very nice results, like hovering

above a coral head

The wreck of the Salem Express. This ferry loaded with pilgrims hit a

reef near Safaga on Dec. 16th 1991. More than 500 people died when the

ship went down. It's a very sobering dive.

A fine example of rebirth. The end of a sailing boat creates a nice

place to live for dozens of coral species

stunning picture !

very, very nice !

Nice idea! Beautiful model and very well shot!

This lionfish was warning me I was too close. Spreading its fins it

almost looks like a flower

Thanks!

The gradient is much smoother indeed on the full-size original. Resizing and lowering the jpeg quality seems to make it more harsh.

I was doubting a lot between the sigma 15mm and the nikon 16mm fisheye lenses. The sigma won, because it focuses closer than the nikon.

For underwater the fisheyes are great, you can get very close and still have everything in the shot. For topside I think a fisheye is much harder to work with since the distortion becomes much more noticeable.

merry christmas!

jaap

Just behind the arch at elphinstone reef, my buddy Randy was waiting

for me to catch up

very nice shot!

Clean and simple, well done!

amazing image!
Is it a single shot? Or did you combine some work?

Looks very hard to get all the elements exactly right in the same time

A thresher shark during an early morning dive at Big Brother island in

the red sea. These are pretty shy creatures for which you have to dive

deep (50 meters in this photo).

So an amazing but rare encounter with a beautiful animal

Amazing use of light. Very beautiful !

Nope, not an aquarium. It was out in the wild, near the island of Pserimos in Greece.

wow.... cool shot

hope you did duck in time