Theme 01 - 15 January, 2009: Post your favorite photo of 2008

[Maggy]

Two favorites from a relatively new diver and uw photographer. So far I am impressed by all photos that have been posted here.

Queen Triggerfish from my very first time taking photos underwater (actually from my UW dive in the AOW course). It's taken at the Dogs in BVI.

The second is from Cow and Calf between St John and St Thomas:

 

[thanksforallthefish]

Sorry no pics ... just want to thank you for sharing your pics ... stunning is the word I would use

 

[ScubaSteve]

Wow! What a bunch of great pictures. I didn't shoot any underwater in '08, but have a lot of above water dive trip pics!

There is nothing that said Best Underwater shot Carrie....so feel free to post. I am unable to compare underwater with these guys so I am trying to find a nice topside shot to share

 

[seaducer]

There is nothing that said Best Underwater shot Carrie....so feel free to post. I am unable to compare underwater with these guys so I am trying to find a nice topside shot to share

I don't compare to them either, but it didn't stop me!

Actually I look at this the same as I look at participating in sports. If you run with the big dogs, you get faster.

So come on! Everybody can play at this game!

 

[ScubaSteve]

Taken in Boanire and it is a favourite because it turned out .

 

[fairybasslet]

it is a favourite because it turned out .

:lol: I can relate to that.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Certainly I've got nothing to compare to some of the spectacular shots already posted ... and it'd be difficult for me to pick just one I like the best ... so I'll post three and explain why I like each.

The first is from our Indonesia trip in March ... in Komodo. We had spent the entire week hoping to see one of these, and suddenly ... at the end of a 65 minute dive when everyone was up in the shallows ... it came swimming in out of the depths. As it swooped over us, all semblance of buddy skills flew by with it, and it was every diver for him/herself as we all kicked furiously trying to keep it in range while we clicked away. I got one decent shot ... and while it wasn't the best picture of the trip, it was the one that meant the most to me ...

The second comes from a trip to Port Hardy, on the northern end of Vancouver Island, that we took in August. This one isn't anything uncommon up there, nor is it even the most photographically correct picture I took on that trip ... but I really liked it. It's a bunch of brooding anemones growing on a piece of bull kelp ... like underwater jewels ...

And finally, from my local mudhole. I've been trying to get a decent shot of a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker all year long ... which is difficult considering (a) they're not very common and (b) they're really small ... but finally, on Christmas Day, I found this one ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Larry C]

Certainly I've got nothing to compare to some of the spectacular shots already posted
... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Don't sell yourself short Bob. Although I agree that we've seen some pretty fantastic shots, you always come up with terrific pictures and these are no exception.

Here's my first one. Not a great shot by any means, but a great experience. We had about one minute between jumping off the side of the boat, camera in hand and snorkel in mouth (flooded my attached but off strobe in the process) and the young whale shark approaching, passing, making a turn back to check out the boat and slowly disappearing into the distance. Just as I lined up my best shot, he decided to inspect me and put his face right in my non-wide-angle lens. This is what I got. My other shots were all of his hindquarters.

This one was the first Dirona Albolineata that I've seen, and it happened on a day with great vis, on a great background, perfectly situated for a good camera angle and after several days of experimenting with manual focus for super macro shots and strobe angles for white subjects...and I didn't blow the shot!

 

[fisheyeview]

Here is one of my favorites from 2008. I took this down in Little Cayman in June. I shot this with my 10-17 Tokina. A couple of times they actually reached out and touched my dome port.

 

[Coll]

Not a very good picture but it was hard to take and it was one of my mother's Christmas presents!