FrankPro1
Contributor
From the Badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
To the Cool Embrace of the Big Blue
It has been 10 months since I've dove the Garden and the last time I was here I found my first Fringehead. I wanted to get some more shutter time with these photogenic little guys and was lucky enough to find one early on in the dive. My current setup allows only manual focus with my Sigma 70mm macro lens and while the focus peaking function works well, it was still a chore to get a solid capture of such a little subject.
No welcome home dive would be complete with out a Cabezon encounter
There are very few places on the Palos Verdes peninsula where I've seen Moray Eels. I was surprised to see one at the Garden and even more so, that he was out swimming along the reef. As I approached him he quickly swam under a small pinnacle and wedged himself under a ledge. After a few shots he fled deeper under the ledge out of reach from my incessant strobes.
This Rockpool Blenny was very photo shy and would not allow me to get close enough for a solid shot. Hence the heavily cropped photo.
10 months since my last dive at the Garden and I can already see the MPA restrictions are doing there work. A larger than normal abundance of adult fish and invertebrates were observed throughout the dive, including these highly sought after Arthropods.
To the Cool Embrace of the Big Blue
It has been 10 months since I've dove the Garden and the last time I was here I found my first Fringehead. I wanted to get some more shutter time with these photogenic little guys and was lucky enough to find one early on in the dive. My current setup allows only manual focus with my Sigma 70mm macro lens and while the focus peaking function works well, it was still a chore to get a solid capture of such a little subject.
No welcome home dive would be complete with out a Cabezon encounter
There are very few places on the Palos Verdes peninsula where I've seen Moray Eels. I was surprised to see one at the Garden and even more so, that he was out swimming along the reef. As I approached him he quickly swam under a small pinnacle and wedged himself under a ledge. After a few shots he fled deeper under the ledge out of reach from my incessant strobes.
This Rockpool Blenny was very photo shy and would not allow me to get close enough for a solid shot. Hence the heavily cropped photo.
10 months since my last dive at the Garden and I can already see the MPA restrictions are doing there work. A larger than normal abundance of adult fish and invertebrates were observed throughout the dive, including these highly sought after Arthropods.
