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Here is a nice little local (SoCal) fringehead from a dive on Saturday

OM-1, 45 macro, 2 x AOI RC strobes

Here is a nice little J. pardus from a local SoCal dive on Saturday. Warmest water in more than 20 years. This guy locally is quite rare but here he was.

Here is a nice little (see the size of the tentacles) Clark's anemone fish in a totally bleached anemone in Komodo. We saw only a bit of bleaching in the North and none in the South but the South was cold (20C) and green, good for the coral, not so good for the divers. In any case enjoy

Here is another attempt to use a reversal ring on an old manual focus lens. OM-1 with a reverse ring and an old Asahi wide angle (28 mm) lens. DOF is kind of funky

One very inexpensive way to get high magnification with inexpensive bits is to use a reversal ring (typically $5 - $6) on the front of an old manual focus wider angle lens. Here is a very close up of a pair of mantis shrimp eyes shot on the OM-1 with a vintage Asahi 28 mm manual focus lens. Focus by moving in and out and pray. My yield is quite low but every so often you get one.

From Komodo last week. OM-1/AOI/2x FotoCore GSM strobes, Pany 30 macro

Same emperor shrimp as the previous this time with NO edit, just cropped. BUT now in sRGB.

From North Flores.

Nice little Cerberilla (maybe), can't find it in any of the books we have on board. I am sure Dr. Panyarachun can fill us in on this guy.

OM-1/AOI/30 mm macro/2 x GTM Fotocore strobes.

A bunch of striped catfish from Indonesia this morning

AOI/OM-1/30 macro/2 x FotoCore GTM

A bunch of cleaner shrimp heading off to work. North Flores this morning

AOI/OM-1, 2 x Fotocore GTM/30 macro

A nice little Clarke's anemone fish from Flores this morning. These guys are vicious; they will come out and bite and they clearly recognize unprotected skin.

OM-1, 30 macro, 2 x Fotocore GTM, AOI

G aureo from Komodo last week on the Samambaia.

OM-1/30 macro/ AOI/ 2 x Fotocore GTM strobes

Blue ribbon eels are protandrous sequential hermaphrodites. They are all born male and when juvenile they are black with a yellow stripe. As they grow they turn bright blue and are males until they reach full size then their male reproductive system changes to a female and they turn yellow. The female (shown above) is capable of laying 10,000 eggs, typically in the water column where a blue male with then fertilize them. Shortly after laying eggs, the female dies.

Little Orange Froggy from Komodo. AOI/OM-1/30 macro/2 x Fotocore strobes

T. morosa from Central Komodo this morning. AOI/OM-1/30 macro/2 x GTM strobes

Here is a nice little phyllodesmium colemani, shot in pretty hard light (strobes but no diffusers).

From the cold waters of Komodo (20C) yesterday. OM-1, 45 macro, 2 x Fotocore GTM strobes, AOI

Thornback cowfish from this afternoon in Komodo.

A nice little pygmy squid from Black Water last night in Horseshoe Bay Komodo.

Here is a nice little starry night octopus that showed up last night on a cold black water dive.

OM-1, 2 x GTM strobes, AOI, 30 macro lens