Photos (something for almost everyone--from eagle rays to seahorses)

[cozcharlie]

Going to just dump some photos here taken over past two weeks. Probably should get flickr account to get better resolution but still haven't done that. Will have several replies to this thread.

Close up eagle ray photos below were at Cedral about 10 days ago. Photos of group of eagle rays were kind of in the Cantarel/Eagle Ray Alley area (we dropped in directly in front of the entrance to Puerto Abrigo--probably saw the rays straight out from Puesta del Sol condos).

Camera was Sony RX100 VII in Nauticam Housing with Sea&Sea YS-D3 strobes. Used Nauticam CMC-1 or CMC-2 macro wet lenses when appropriate (RX100 VII almost useless for macro without wet lenses). Nudibranch and seahorse spotting courtesy of Fernando at Pelagic Ventures.

 

[cozcharlie]

Orangeish seahorse found in shallows off Hemingway's/Monina on way to small wreck in that general area (diving from boat). Batfish near the small wreck. Black seahorse in seagrass at Paradise at night.

 

[cozcharlie]

Octopus and Stoplight Parrotfish (I think) taken at night at Paradise, other fish just a mix of locations

 

[cozcharlie]

Shrimp photos (spotted cleaner shrimp, sexy shrimp, shrimp I couldn't pin down, and banded coral shrimp)

 

[cozcharlie]

Painted aglaja, black aglaja, flapping dingbat, painted elysia, lettuce sea slug, harlequin pipefish, leech aglaja

 

[Jake 10]

awesome pictures

 

[cozcharlie]

Small crabs and stuff. Think one of these is juvenile spotted scorpionfish (didn't look like that neat mushroom scorpionfish that jlyle posted).

 

[cozcharlie]

Forgot blennies and couple of miscellaneous

 

[Cozdreamer]

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.
Thank you for sharing all of these beauties! You have quite the eye. I appreciate your time to post all of these here for our enjoyment. I miss the water terribly!

 

[ColoDale]

Excellent. I am looking forward to the eagle rays tomorrow.