Thanks for the kind words
I think that shot was taken at the dive site "Apple".
Karl, perhaps your observation about the squid mating may explain the unusual behavior we saw in the squid while in Anilao. I only ran into two of these guys, but both times they behaved the same.
We'd come upon the squid just off of the sandy bottom and the squid would be a typical red-brown color. It would sit there and bob up and down in a pulsating movement near the bottom, occasionally changing a little iridescent here and there, but mostly staying reddish. Then, after some firing of the strobes (2 YS-250s), the squid would shoot up into the water column and begin turning wildly transparent and luminescent, doing a sort of dance - almost like it was drunk off of our dive lights and strobes; it would sort of dance around *toward* the light.
We were joking afterwards that it was like that Mountain Dew commercial where the guy hits his head on the window of the shop with the brightly lit soda machine, "aaaah such a pretty liiiiight....".
I was definitely really happy with the shots I got of both of the squids. The one you see here was alternating between coming after my lights and playing coy for what must've been a good 20 minutes. So, the hardest part was choosing the best photo to publish, which is always a good problem to have
