You've read all of the reports - here are some shots to go with them.
I was shooting macro, as there were several other shooters and all of them (with the exception of one dive) had on W/A lenses - so I figured someone needed to represent MoCal Micro Macro.
Huge thanks to all my MoCal Homies. Can't wait to get up there again soon.
Enjoy
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Ken
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Full MoCal Macro gallery can be found here on DiveMatrix: Linkola
Here, a Hermit crab was sort of rolling his buddy along. It was the cutest thing. This was on the Barge Friday evening.
I still can't believe this guy's camouflage. Unreal.
After I lay a big 'ol egg ribbon, I know I just wanna blob out on the sofa. Oh wait, that's after I come home from a dive...
More with the Nudi eggs, as this Tritona lets 'em rip
Hermi on a field of color. In a world of white Nudis that Monterey is, the Hermissenda is one of the stand-outs.
Saturday morning at Lobos - scoots staged for the Monte Carlo "divers, start your engines" start. Can you imagine - 9 divers in drysuits and fins, high kicking it to the scoots, down the slippery ramp and into the water to do a few laps around Lobos. I'm telling you, I'd watch competitive diving it all of the races started like that (many thanks to BenV for his twisted idea...)
Scratchy. Or is this Itchy? I dunno... its one of them. I'm in Seattle for a week and I don't see a wolfie. I see one my first day (my first Wolf Eel) in MoCal. I love that place. Check the crown on his head, and the nubbed toof. These things are amazing animals.
At the end of dive 2 on Sunday (our boat dive on the Cypress Seas) Claudette and I were in about 8 feet of water and I spotted this Sea Nettle - also my first one! I had on the 105 Macro lens, and there was about a 7 to 9 foot swell - so you can guess what was going on. Me and nettle were face-to-lace one moment, then I was looking through a telescope trying to line it up the next. I decided to compose it against the surface of the sunny day (to get the sun coming through the lace and leverage the ripples of the surface to add some interest) as opposed to a clinical shot against a plain blue water background. As Nettle and I were both riding the same swells, he's in sharp focus while the background (the water's surface) has some motion blur. The sun is coming from the right of the frame, lighting up Nettle. I like this shot a lot.
The first cowrey shot I've ever posted. I like his foot is out and there is a little chiton in the foreground.
Shrimpy - the shrimp are all over the place. On Friday night while on the barge I was composing for a shot and a canary rockfish swooped in and ate my subject. Seriously. One moment I had a shrimp perfectly placed in my fiewfinder, and when I snapped the shot all I saw was black.... I looked up and perched on the barge was a rockfish, chewin. No fair eating the subjects... This one was shot on Betos.
The coral was amazing on Sunday's boat dives. So many color variants - deep purple, blues, yellows, reds. Just gorgeous. Here are some coral shots.
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I was shooting macro, as there were several other shooters and all of them (with the exception of one dive) had on W/A lenses - so I figured someone needed to represent MoCal Micro Macro.
Huge thanks to all my MoCal Homies. Can't wait to get up there again soon.
Enjoy
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Ken
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Full MoCal Macro gallery can be found here on DiveMatrix: Linkola
Here, a Hermit crab was sort of rolling his buddy along. It was the cutest thing. This was on the Barge Friday evening.
I still can't believe this guy's camouflage. Unreal.
After I lay a big 'ol egg ribbon, I know I just wanna blob out on the sofa. Oh wait, that's after I come home from a dive...
More with the Nudi eggs, as this Tritona lets 'em rip
Hermi on a field of color. In a world of white Nudis that Monterey is, the Hermissenda is one of the stand-outs.
Saturday morning at Lobos - scoots staged for the Monte Carlo "divers, start your engines" start. Can you imagine - 9 divers in drysuits and fins, high kicking it to the scoots, down the slippery ramp and into the water to do a few laps around Lobos. I'm telling you, I'd watch competitive diving it all of the races started like that (many thanks to BenV for his twisted idea...)
Scratchy. Or is this Itchy? I dunno... its one of them. I'm in Seattle for a week and I don't see a wolfie. I see one my first day (my first Wolf Eel) in MoCal. I love that place. Check the crown on his head, and the nubbed toof. These things are amazing animals.
At the end of dive 2 on Sunday (our boat dive on the Cypress Seas) Claudette and I were in about 8 feet of water and I spotted this Sea Nettle - also my first one! I had on the 105 Macro lens, and there was about a 7 to 9 foot swell - so you can guess what was going on. Me and nettle were face-to-lace one moment, then I was looking through a telescope trying to line it up the next. I decided to compose it against the surface of the sunny day (to get the sun coming through the lace and leverage the ripples of the surface to add some interest) as opposed to a clinical shot against a plain blue water background. As Nettle and I were both riding the same swells, he's in sharp focus while the background (the water's surface) has some motion blur. The sun is coming from the right of the frame, lighting up Nettle. I like this shot a lot.
The first cowrey shot I've ever posted. I like his foot is out and there is a little chiton in the foreground.
Shrimpy - the shrimp are all over the place. On Friday night while on the barge I was composing for a shot and a canary rockfish swooped in and ate my subject. Seriously. One moment I had a shrimp perfectly placed in my fiewfinder, and when I snapped the shot all I saw was black.... I looked up and perched on the barge was a rockfish, chewin. No fair eating the subjects... This one was shot on Betos.
The coral was amazing on Sunday's boat dives. So many color variants - deep purple, blues, yellows, reds. Just gorgeous. Here are some coral shots.
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