It's been over a month since I've been in the water having macro fun! Fortunately, a bit of time cleared up and this Dirona albolineata came out to visit. 🥰🥰 #scuba #weloveslug #underwaterphotography
Something a little different for a #weloveslug new year? This Tritonia festiva photographed with my new #nauticam smc3 diopter. I love supermacro but feel like it's a fight with my Sony 90mm lens, which has a limited minimum aperture. I'll just need to be more careful with a shallower depth of focus. This fella photographed a few days ago in Hood Canal. #underwaterphotography #scuba
Taking a break from squid and refocussing on core #weloveslug. I think this is a Diaulula odonoghuei #nudibranch, found lounging on some vegetation around my shallow deco stop. Hood Canal, Washington state. #scuba #underwaterphotography
Just celebrating some #weloveslug with this white-lined dirona posing magnificently earlier this week in Hood Canal. #nudibranch #underwaterphotography #scuba
One of my favourite local #nudibranch, a Tritonia festiva. Last week they were all hanging out in droves at 20 metres. Where will they be next week I wonder? #weloveslug #scuba #underwaterphotography
An unexpected find a few days ago! While rooting around the sediment at 25 metres looking for Tritonia festivas, I came across this tiny Armina californica #nudibranch nearby. No more than 2cm long. Judging by the dirt (possibly the only dirty nudibranch I've ever seen?), it had just been digging for sea pens. #weloveslug #underwaterphotography
An amazing few days of diving in Hood Canal featuring, among many other new friends, this Tritonia festiva #nudibranch. This fella and its friends all hung out on the silty drop at around 20--25 metres. No shallower, no deeper. And I've never seen so many in one place! Beautiful. #weloveslug #scuba #underwaterphotography
One of my favourite local cold-water PNW #nudibranch species, the Aeoldia loui. Living its best on a branch underwater where I watched it sally back and forth. Never quite getting head-on in frame. #weloveslug #underwaterphotography #scuba
Last night's Hood Canal dive got off to an unpleasant start with water leaking into my housing. 😭 Seems I hadn't tightened the vacuum cap enough. Whenever I get the housing serviced, I'll have them take it off entirely---it's caused several leakages. After a panicked drying sesh, I got back in and came across this Dirona albolineata. One of many on a shallow wreck. But nowhere else. Just that wreck. Picky! #weloveslug #underwaterphotography #scuba
#scuba #underwaterphotography #weloveslug Interestign nudibranch I pohotgraphed recently, doing it's best to look like something else.