September, 2018 POTM Contest - Anything Goes

[HolisticBear]

My Space Invader

 

[mta_morrow]

My Space Invader

Beautiful! One of my favorite corals!

 

[fabutahoun]

My Space Invader

Amazing Shot and Coral !!!

 

[SMB]

Great image. Would be fun to try focus stacking with that.

My Space Invader

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

the best coral shot I have ever taken...

my new super ultra mega acan

 

[Dancingmad]

If anything goes I'm going to be the guy to post a worm.

 

[tenurepro]

what a beauty @WallyB

Was waiting for Starfish POTM but if Anything goes...

 

[Tony Thompson]

Are you looking at me ? Great little character, used to eat out of my hand till I sold it on.

 

[Tony Thompson]

Great shot, well done. Fish are so hard to photo, you got it spot on.

 

[Tony Thompson]

Thank you.
The above shot was taken in the big tank, the Philippines. UW photography has been a hobby for decades (although I have hung up the fins to concentrate on land photography). I have used all manner of cameras and lenses. The clownfish was taken with a Nikon DSLR in an underwater housing and two strobes (flash). The lens was a Nikon 105mm 2.8 macro.
If I was allowed only one UW subject it would have to be clownfish. The subjects are limitless. Although they are not always willing participants and will attack your fingers and ears and will draw blood....
Anemones in the wild get huge, 3-4 feet across and will host 50-60 clownfish; an incredible site.
(BELOW NOT FOR THE COMPETITION.)

Now that is an awesome shot on so many levels. Great work, thanks for sharing.

 

[aKlevans]

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

 

[Coral Hygiene]

 

[quicksil328]

Here is one of our protopalythoas

 

[Rattzreef]

 

[BigJim]

foxface 4 041518 by Big Jim, on Flickr

 

[Haggisman14]

Here's my beautiful banggai!

 

[Acameron2]

 

[Katrina71]

 

[PanchoG]

Awesome shoot!