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This tiny blenny kept sticking his head out looking for food, and didn’t seem to care that I was pointing a camera at him. I couldn’t help but think that his expression was saying “Whatchu lookin’ at” the whole time I was taking pictures of him.

This little guy is about the size of a pea, and very hard to find in the great big ocean. This juvenile trunkfish will grow up to be something completely different, but now he is basically a floating pea. He also doesn’t like to hold still very long to have his picture taken! I saw him while diving recently on the West End Wall in Roatan.

Like most things in the ocean, this guy doesn’t like to be touched. His stinging white bristles are flared out since he noticed me, but it wasn’t too difficult to avoid all 1.5 inches of him. I spent at least 10 minutes to get this shot and I’m pretty happy with the result. He was cooperative, but the current moved him around enough to make getting this shot a time-consuming process.

The current can be strong, there is no use fighting it. Sometimes it is just best to grow with the flow.

I was focused on the spotted moray eel for this shot, but then a little cleaner shrimp popped into the frame. Maybe they had some kind of arrangement to share this little hole in the bottom of the sea.

I’ve been thinking about the lack of scuba diving in my life recently, so I decided to process this photo of some corals. Like most things underwater, it wasn’t very interesting until I lit it up with my strobe, and then the colors other than blue really started to show.

This shot reminded me of a garden, although it is like nothing you would see above sea level. I captured this in Cozumel. The combination of soft corals with the light reflecting off the surface made this trip very memorable.

This was the first thing I saw after emerging from a cave dive in Mexico. The cave was called Kukulkan. True, it was the way we came in, but from this vantage point I was still in the water after swimming through caves, and it looked quite different. I can’t say I was in a hurry to get out of this place, but the effect of the light at the end of the tunnel got my attention.

I was surrounded by these little fish diving in Cozumel. OK, I might have scared a few off by swimming by and bursting a few flashes from my camera!

A diver in front of me on a cave dive in Mexico. This isn’t a technically great shot, it is a little blurry and funky, but I really like the effect that it has. It represents what scuba diving through this part of the the cave was like. It was dark and cold, and it felt like you just had to keep focusing on the one light in front of you and keep going.