Here's a little something I shot last week, two days after the full-moon in east Bali, on the Lombok Strait.
Going to my usual critter hunting spot, I expected to spend the dive on the black sand as usual. But as I reached the edge of the plateau and the sandy-slope facing the deep waters of the strait, my attention was instantly caught by the weird critters floating around everywhere, including quite a few jewels I'd never seen before...
Water was quite clear, with a mild current, and I spent the whole dive hovering and drifting with the plankton, then returning to the same area and drifting again with a new subject.
An exciting and fascinating day-dive - for someone in love with larval and planktonic lifeforms at least
- and a welcome change from the usual bottom-dwelling macro suspects found in the area!
Equipment used:
- Panasonic Lumix LX10 (LX9/LX15 in some locales) compact camera in a NALX10 Nauticam housing, AOI UCL-09 +18.5 diopter, Inon UCL-165M67 +6 diopter
- Backscatter MW 4300 video light and two Archon D11V2 video lights
- Shot in Amed, east Bali, in 4K 30fps, CineD profile
cheers!
ben
Going to my usual critter hunting spot, I expected to spend the dive on the black sand as usual. But as I reached the edge of the plateau and the sandy-slope facing the deep waters of the strait, my attention was instantly caught by the weird critters floating around everywhere, including quite a few jewels I'd never seen before...
Water was quite clear, with a mild current, and I spent the whole dive hovering and drifting with the plankton, then returning to the same area and drifting again with a new subject.
An exciting and fascinating day-dive - for someone in love with larval and planktonic lifeforms at least
- and a welcome change from the usual bottom-dwelling macro suspects found in the area!Equipment used:
- Panasonic Lumix LX10 (LX9/LX15 in some locales) compact camera in a NALX10 Nauticam housing, AOI UCL-09 +18.5 diopter, Inon UCL-165M67 +6 diopter
- Backscatter MW 4300 video light and two Archon D11V2 video lights
- Shot in Amed, east Bali, in 4K 30fps, CineD profile
cheers!
ben
