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Jaap:

Very nice image. I  like the blue gradations a lot, but there appears to be a bit of lines in the lightest blue part of the image. I am sure that it is some sort of artifact of making tiny photos though. How do you like the sigma 15 on the D800? Many of my friends are trying to figure out the best WA lens for the new Niikon full frames.

Happy holidays

Bill

A little yellow fringehead from Palos Verdes

If you look carefully there is a little copepod next to him

Bill

A nice little nudibranch (Hermessinda) from our Local CA waters

Enjoy Bill

A little red blenny from Bonaire. Enjoy

Bill

From the Solomon's

Enjoy

Great shot, as usual. I like the lighting a lot with the tunicate very soflty lit.

Well done

Bill

A little nudibranch from the Phililppines (Hypselodoris bullocki)

Enjoy

A little orange nudibranch from the Philippines

Enjoy and Merry Christmas

Bill

A little anemone shrimp from Dumaguette in the Philippines. Look closely and you can

see her eggs.

Bill

A blue ribbon eel from the Solomon's

Enjoy

Bill

Bernie:

Very nice capture. I love Christmas Tree worms, and have several here on photo.net. This one has two minor problems. The first is that the white band is blown out on my (calibrated ) monitor. The second is that I wish there was more DOF.

But still very nice.

Bill

A very nice capture, I like it a lot. Personally I would have tilted it a bit to the left to put the main horizontal plan going up a bit, but that is just nitpicking. I like the negative space on the right, the cropping is very nice.

Bill

Another Spanish Shawl from Anacapa.

Enjoy

Bill

Jaap:

A very nice composition for a scene that many of us would not even bother to point a camera at.

Well done.

Bill

Bruno, Jaap

thanks for the kind words, coming from you guys it is indeed praise.

Bill

The official state nudibranch of California should be this guy, the spanish shawl. Palos

Verdes peninsula on Saturday, cold and green but lots of nudis.

Enjoy

Richard:

Thanks, hope to see more of your stuff soon.

Bill

A nice very large Hermissenda crassicornis from Catalina.

Canon 5D, 100 mm macro, Subal, Inon

As Jaap points out, very well done.

Congrats

Bill

A local blue banded goby from East End of Catalina. I am amused when these guys

show up in guidebooks as endemic to Galapagos.

Marc: Very nice shrimp. I like the composition a lot.

Well done

Richard:

There were 5 or 6. You can see one in the lower left and one on the lower right. Good catch. These guys seem to be mostly in the Caribbean and you seem to dive in the Pacific (I am jealous) but if you get to Bonaire/Belize/Caymans I think you will see them.

Cheers

Bill

A fire bristleworm from Bonaire. Beware, if you get too close, it can hurt

Enjoy

Bill