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A collection of my #UnderwaterPhotography.
🐠 Fish & Coral Nerd
🌅 Sunrise / Sunset Appreciator
🏄🏼‍♂️ General Fun-haver

I love Earth. This little ball we call home coul

I love Earth.

This little ball we call home couldn’t be more amazing; it’s a truly wonderful place in the universe. It’s hard to not find something beautiful everywhere you look. I don’t think we could imagine a more ideal home than Earth.

The polarity around topics like climate change, pollution, development, carbon emissions, harmful tourism, livestock, etc. only compound our inaction. Odds are we all can find something we believe in that benefits the greater good of our little blue home. Maybe it’s reducing your carbon footprint, maybe it’s reducing and advocating against single-use plastics, maybe it’s voting for candidates that want to stop development of virgin or rewilded land, everyone can do something!

#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #Home #BluePlanet #OurHome #Earth #ClimateChange #Pollution #StopDevelopment #CarbonFootprint #EatVegan #UnderwaterPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Wild #Photography #ForYou #Outside #SOS #Beautiful

This is what happens when a pancake steals your me

This is what happens when a pancake steals your meal.

A dozen whitetip reef sharks piled on top of this stingray trying to get whatever was underneath it. Whether it was the stingray’s catch or one of the reef sharks’ it sure caused quite a commotion.

And yes, that reef shark at the end of the video did run into me 😂.

🥞🦈🥞🦈🥞🦈🥞🦈🥞🦈

#underwater #scuba #sharks #stingray #nature #wildlife #coolanimals #animals #predator #reef #ocean #sealife #seelife #oceanlife #cool #foryou #canonwildlife #nauticam #nauticamhousings #wild

Found this absolute unit of a Great Hammerhead thi

Found this absolute unit of a Great Hammerhead this morning. While it’s hard to estimate its length I could clearly identify it from 120m high. This is my favorite shark, and I was very happy to have found this one today.

🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨

#hammerhead #hammerheadshark #greathammerhead #endangered #endangeredspecies #shark #sharks #dronevideo #dronereel #sharkreel #sharksofinstagram #coolanimals #wildlife #nature #outdoors #ocean #florida

A handful clips of the big blue with extraordinari

A handful clips of the big blue with extraordinarily clear water and amazingly varied reef life.

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#reef #ocean #underwater #120fps #seaturtle #reeflife #underwatervideo #nature #beautiful #clearwater #wildlife #reelformat #foryou #explore #adventure #fun #scuba #nauticam #canonwildlife #goodtimes #sunshine #fish

Green sea turtle munchies. There are places wher

Green sea turtle munchies.

There are places where sea turtles don’t welcome your approach, and there are places where they don’t seem to mind so much. This place is overwhelmingly the latter.

🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢

#greenseaturtle #seaturtle #turtle #turtlereel #underwater #seagrass #coolanimals #cuteanimals #nom #wildlife #nature #underwatervideo #animals #explore #adventure #foryou

Soft corals in morning sunbeams should be the scre

Soft corals in morning sunbeams should be the screensaver in my mind when I close my eyes.

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#morning #sunbeams #exposure #softcorals #reefviews #coralreef #gorgonia #nauticamhousings #canonunderwater #120fps #lofi #serenitynow #ocean #outdoors #underwater #freedive #snorkel

A moment of serenity brought to you by Paranthias

A moment of serenity brought to you by Paranthias colonus (pacific creolefish).

🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠

#serenity #calm #fish #underwater #ocean #sealife #nauticam #canonwildlife #120fps #peaceful #wildlife #nature #creolefish #anthias #sunbeams #reef #scuba #underwatervideo

Manta Eclipse.

This photo is a little bit of a “happy accident.” In a moment of total amateurism, I turned my camera directly into the sun in an attempt to capture this manta as it passed over and didn’t adjust any of my settings to account for all this extra light. Thus, I ended up with a photo that was completely over-exposed and blown-out. I felt kind of silly as I reviewed my shots later that day but then I remembered that photography is art and the style of this composition felt really artful. I added some grain in Lightroom and it just really came alive and felt real.

f9.0 1/200 ISO500

#manta #underwaterphotography #photography #art #nature #wildlife #ocean #oceanicmanta #overexposed #grain #lightroom #nauticam #canonwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #sealife #seelife

The duality of movement and attachment. 🪸🪸

The duality of movement and attachment.

🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸

#underwaterphotography #floridakeys #coral #reef #underwater #nature #sealife #wildlife #explore #adventure #lifeisbetterunderwater #nauticam #nauticamhousings #florida #gorgonia

A few of my favorite tang gangs. 1. Convict Tang

A few of my favorite tang gangs.

1. Convict Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus)
2. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus)
3. Razor Surgeonfish (Prionurus laticlavus)
4. [Juvenile] {Caribbean} Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus)

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#surgeonfish #bluetang #convicttang #razorsurgeonfish #doctorfish #carousel #nature #wildlife #ocean #oceanphotography #underwaterphotography #nauticam #fish #fishphotography #explore #adventure

Whitetip reef sharks aplenty.

🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

#shark #whitetipreefshark #nature #wildlife #sunball #scuba #underwater #underwaterphotography #nauticam #nauticamhousings #canonr5 #retra #explore #worldheritage

School is in session, keep an eye out for the hall

School is in session, keep an eye out for the hall monitor.

🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

#schooloffish #jacktornado #sharks #shark #fish #fishreel #aerialphotography #dronephotography #wildlife #ocean #nature #florida #ocean #sealife

Immersed in a school of bigeye jacks(trevally). Th

Immersed in a school of bigeye jacks(trevally). These schools can grow to become absolutely massive and the behaviors have been described as a “jack tornado.” This was a smaller school but still really cool to be swallowed by the school as they passed through.

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#underwater #underwatervideo #nauticam #mexico #schooloffish #jacktornado #canonr5 #120fps #canon #wildlife #nature #explore #foryou #adventure #getwet #padi #scuba

Seagrass blades pulsing in the surge of the ocean

Seagrass blades pulsing in the surge of the ocean waves as a hogfish cruises by, heading to the cleaning station or the next sandy spot where it can dig for its next meal.

I was once talking about fish with a neighbor and we got to the hogfish and he said it was his favorite “snapper.” Which I responded that it was actually a wrasse. He didn’t believe me! He physically left, went into his house, Googled it, and came back to inform me that it was actually a wrasse 🤣 True story.

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#hogfish #seagrass #fishpic #underwater #underwaterphotography #nature #wildlife #ocean #sealife #nauticam #florida #freedive #photooftheday #wrasse

These two adorably flappy manta rays are engaging

These two adorably flappy manta rays are engaging in potential courtship behavior. In courtship, the female manta essentially makes male manta follow her around to prove its stamina and dedication . . . Sound familiar? 😂

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#manta #mantarays #florida #wildlife #nature #coolanimals #weirdanimals #courtship #animalbehavior #dronevideo #ocean #sealife #atlantic #spacecoast

It’s pretty neat how many amazing creatures I ca

It’s pretty neat how many amazing creatures I can find a short bike ride away from my house. (The drone helps)

Clips in order:
1. A barnacle covered turtle and its tripletail swimming partner.
2. Look how this Manta Ray has left a trail of cleaner water
3. Zoom in on the previous Manta
4. Bottlenose dolphin mom and calf
5. Manta ray, again leaving a trail of less turbid water.
6. Spinner shark
7. Manta Ray, look at those incredible patterns.

🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢

#seaturtle #tripletail #mantaray #dolphin #bottlenosedolphins #spinnershark #shark #manta #florida #nature #wildlife #beach #drone #dji

Some blackwater photos I’ve been hoarding. I k

Some blackwater photos I’ve been hoarding.

I know some of these IDs but not all of them, if you know the ID or you just have a favorite please let me know in the comments!

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#blackwater #underwaterphotography #nauticam #nauticamhousings #canonphotography #canonr5 #canonwildlifephotography #weirdanimals #nature #ocean #sealife #wildlife #atlanticocean #padi #scuba #getwet

A roughtail stingray portrait pic for #worldwildli

A roughtail stingray portrait pic for #worldwildlifeday. Planet Earth is nearly 2/3rds ocean, so effectively it’s Planet Ocean, and this is where the majority of our wildlife flourishes.

There are parts of this blue planet that are wild and wonderful and protected against the rising tides of human impact. But, unfortunately, there are many more parts that have been affected so severely they’re seemingly irreparable. All wild places need our help, especially those with the most biodiversity. We all need to fight to protect these spaces when we shop, when we eat, when we travel, and especially when we vote.

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#thinkgreen #protectwildlife #stingray #wildlife #nature #megafauna #flatshark #nauticam #coolanimals #usvi #ocean #sealife #viewfromthebottom

I got a little boop by a giant. This was a reall

I got a little boop by a giant.

This was a really cool encounter because the dive was nearly over and I was just kind of floating around after my safety stop videoing the parathias plucking food out of the water. Then I was nearly run over by the giant oceanic manta ray @manta__lena had tagged at the beginning of the dive. She gave me a really close eye-to-eye inspection and then circled back for a fly-over which is when I got the picture of her in the sunset colors I posted a few weeks ago.

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#manta #mantaray #revillagigedo #underwater #ocean #nature #wildlife #coolanimals #animallovers #explore #adventure #ocean #sealife #nauticam #nauticamhousings #scuba #padi

Some sunset splits featuring steel pompanos and pa

Some sunset splits featuring steel pompanos and paranthias, oh and of course those incredible colors in the sky.

🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅

#sunset #splitphoto #sky #underwaterphotography #fishpics #nature #beautiful #wildlife #explore #adventure #outdoors #gooutside #water #nauticam #canon

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