6/14 Maui pic

[Gilligan]

Pale Anemone Crab (Dardanus deformis) in a Marlinspike Auger shell

The luminous green eyes on short white stalks with a dark brown transverse band distinguishes this specimen.

This is the first one I have encountered here. It did not have any anemones on its shell.

 

[RichKirby]

Dang. Nice shot! You must have been pressing the glass against him to get that shot!

 

[Gilligan]

Dang. Nice shot! You must have been pressing the glass against him to get that shot!

Thanks.

I was about a foot away and used the zoom in the macro mode then cropped the photo in PS.

 

[djanni]

Thanks.

I was about a foot away and used the zoom in the macro mode then cropped the photo in PS.

Did you polish up your lenses or something? This looks sharper than normal.

 

[Tortuga Roja]

Nice shot!

Howz viz?

 

[Dee]

Very nice!

 

[Gilligan]

Did you polish up your lenses or something? This looks sharper than normal.

Just sharpened it in PS.

I must also admit that I started using my strobe diffuser again after stating in a previous post that it was more trouble than it was worth.

I still stick to my previous statement that it robbed me of too much of the light on the more distant shots but it improves the close-up stuff.

One of the other reasons I started using it again was to have the red lens over the focus light so as not to freak out the critters. It seems to do the job.

 

[Gilligan]

Nice shot!

Howz viz?

Surgy and not so great. I dove off Kam I looking for that sailboat wreck. Come to find out it's gone. Duhhhh.

Not much out ther but sand cept this crab which I haven't seen anyplace else. So the dive was not a total loss.

 

[Larry C]

Love the crab! Especially those big green bobble eyes. Nice shot.