What you got in that box? Hawksbill Turtle at night

Mr. Curious




This Hawksbill was checking to see what lens I was using. (60mm, F16, 1/90, ASA 100, Dual Inon 220z's (-2/-2))

Image taken on a night dive on one the Breakers Reef dive sites in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Enjoy,
M

Nice close ups.

They remind me of how when I shoot video at night and there are porcupine fish around, they invariably come over and start staring at themselves in the lense port (I'm guessing they like to see how they look with their big old bugeyes distorted by the glass ). Sometimes it gets to be a bother because you just cant shake them. They go up, down, left, forward and backward just to stay right in front of you, like someone you see on TV at a sporting/news event trying desperately to get on camera. Always highly entertaining . . . until you want to try to shoot something else.