Snorkeling with Dolphins

People Underwater Wideangle Wildlife

Additional Info After anchoring in Dolphinhouse on our way back to Hurghada a crew member spotted a dolphin and started snorkeling with it. We all jumped in a zodiac and were driven to the dolphin. Unfortunately the flashes on my camera were still charging since we were not supposed to […]

Fried Egg UFO

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info After discovering how to do blackwater photos I tried them on every sea animal that would let me. So naturally when we swam back from Cathedral Cave and the water was full of fried egg jellyfish I wanted to take their picture. I looked for a particularly symmetrical […]

Lanabüba

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info I heard a lot of this little guy before this dive, the longnose hawkfish or Langnasenbüschelbarsch as the germans call him. Small fish – big name. This photo was taken in Small Giftun – Police Station on a day I was still recovering from a fever I had […]

Cruising Stingray

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info The red sea offers countless blue spotted stingrays (Taeniura lymma), to the point where you do not want to take pictures of them any more, but this one cruised by us very gracefully while diving at night in Gordon Reef, Tiran. Download fullsize JPG

Sleeping Beauty

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info When diving at night in Gordon Reef, Tiran, I noticed a sleeping fish and took the opportunity to take a closeup of his eye, as this is much easier when they do not move. Unfortunately I never took a photo of the whole fish and thus was not […]

Blackwater Jellyfish

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info This was the first picture I successfully pulled off with a black blackground while diving by day. (at night this is a lot easier 😉 )It was taken at Middlefinger in Gozo, Malta and shows a mauve stinger jellyfish (pelagia noctiluca). Download fullsize JPG

Portrait of a Fireworm

Macro Underwater Wildlife

Additional Info Macro Portrait of a Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) taken at Middlefinger in Gozo, Malta. Download fullsize JPG