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A male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) glides head-on just above the camera. (Don't worry he turned before he got there.)
Isla Guadalupe - México
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This is an old shot from 2011 that I've never shared on Flickr.
For those of you not familiar with Cal Ripfin (aka Shredder), He was probably the most recognized and "famous" male great white sharks at Guadalupe for years.
First identified at the island in 2001, he was consistently spotted every season through 2011. His uniquely injured dorsal fin made him easy to identify, but it was his personality that made him a favorite with divers at the island over the years.
He has been missing now for four years and is believed by many to have passed away, due to the consistency with which he visited the island prior to his disappearance. His presence at the island is sorely missed, and it really isn't the same place or experience without him there.
I'm grateful for the numerous encounters that I had with Cal and am thankful that I have so many pictures of him to remember him by.
Joker is a male great white shark who was first identified at Guadalupe several years ago. He has a very recognizable white marking on his lower caudal fin (tail) that makes him easy to identify. I've seen Joker multiple times over the years, It's always good to see some of the more consistent visitors continuing to return to the island.
I'm not usually all that into fantasy editing (likely because I suck at it), but I thought this was a fun pic....
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Rhett is a male great white shark first identified at Guadalupe in 2014. While not visible from this angle, he has a very distinct white marking on the right-side of his caudal fin that makes him easy to recognize.
He was the 157th individual white shark to be identified at Isla de Gudalupe as part of the identification database that researchers have been working on since 2001.
061030: this pic is a "selected picture" for Wikipedia's Sharks Portal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sharks
... and as of June 24? ('07), is a "Featured Pic" on Wikipedia (woohoo):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Whiteshark-TGoss5b_hf.jpg
Update: Wikipedia mainpage "Featured Picture of the Day" for Oct. 7, 2007. (Neato! My lucky day (I just found a penny!)....)
UPDATE, Nov 1 '08 :
I just found this image... on the wall at the new Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium! (whoa!) It's in the back a ways, next to a glass case with white shark jaws, next to another case with blue whale baleen. (It's the older edit, the one used at WikiCommons - which is where I believe they got it.) Pretty dern neato, if I do say so myself.....
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... playing around with some effects to get that vintage National Geographic look; it actually came out looking more "normal" than I had expected....
(He looks so happy...)
:)
This pic was featured in a full-page ad in Shark Diver Magazine #14 (for Club Cantamar in La Paz, Mexico).
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Scad mackerel clear the way for an adult great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) as he swims near the surface off the coast of Isla de Guadalupe.
The mackerel are quite good at "photobombing" the sharks at Guadalupe and have ruined many a shot for me. Fortunately, for this shot, they provided some nice framing for the shark, instead.
If you'd like to learn more about my shark photography, check out my interview with The Weekly Flickr.
Air Demon, the pregnant great white shark, rising from the dark depths. She's only 13' long, but her girth makes her seem larger. #Nauticam #GreatWhiteShark #Canon #Guadalupe #AirDemon #BigMamma #BlackAndWhite
Lucy, one of my favorite great white shark ladies at Isla de Guadalupe, poses for a head-shot.
I'm hoping that Lucy will be around again when we head back to the island next month.
To see the story behind me great white shark shots, check out flic.kr/p/osxesm, if you haven't already.
A battle-scarred great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) keeps a close eye on the camera as he passes by.
A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) at the surface with jaws open. Taken off Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico.
News:
As of 071014, this image is the category winner ("Perfect Calm") for SharkTrust.org's "Sharks in Focus" photo competition - very neato. It's slated to be published in Dive Magazine (I think?).
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A great white shark comes in close. The shark's blue iris and Ampullae de Lorenzini (electroreceptors) can be easily seen in this shot.
This is one of the only close-up shots I got on this trip. The sharks were being a lot more cautious than in years past and didn't come in close very often.
"Cal Ripfin," one of Guadalupe's most famous great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) glides through the water toward the camera.
If you view the full-sized version of this one, you can get an interesting look at the blue-iris of great white shark, by checking out Cal's left eye. The way the sunlight hits it gives a unique look of the eye structure.
In case you missed it, you can check out my interview with The Weekly Flickr about the story behind my shark photography. flic.kr/p/osxesm
I recently came across the term "chimping". For those of you who have never heard this term, do some online searches, it is quite amusing.
Basically, chimping is a somewhat derogatory term about digital photographers who check their LCD screens. There are exceptions of course, but essentially the term describes the 'ooing and ahhing' over photos on the back of the camera.
For example, I take a shot, and say to my friend "hey, hey, check out this shot". And the two of us go "Ooh, ahh" when we look at the LCD screen. We are making sounds not unlike a chimpanzee, and are 'chimping'.
There's more to it, but the above explanation shall suffice for this write-up.
Anyway, back in September 2008, I was doing some serious chimping after a SCUBA dive down in the Channel Islands off of southern California. I was showing people my photos from the dive while the camera housing was still dripping wet. At the time, my housing had a sticky control, the control that scrolls through the images on the screen, seriously affecting my chimping.
I unlatched my camera housing to relieve the sticky control, and thus breaking the watertight seal around my camera.
I proceeded to walk over to the rinse bucket and dunk my opened housing into three feet of fresh water. The massive amount of bubbles erupting from my rig came as quite a shock. I distinctly remember thinking "why are there bubbles coming out of my camera housing?". I then remember thinking "WHO CARES WHY, TAKE IT OUT!!!".
Despite all my best efforts, my camera and lens were dead. Seven years of underwater photography under my belt, and my first major flood was in the rinse bucket. Total idiot maneuver on my part.
Luckily, my beloved girlfriend loaned me her camera gear for the rest of the trip, knowing full well I would have pouted like a five year old who dropped their ice cream cone if I couldn't take photos. She's the best, really. :)
My first day back after the trip, I got my insurance to start the process of replacing my gear. And while we were gone, I had received an email from the Nautilus Explorer, a dive charter boat I've been on a couple times., The captain offered me a trip to Guadalupe Island off Mexico for three days of shark diving...for free!
The catch? The trip was in four days. No way the insurance is going to get my replacement gear in four days. I had to borrow my girlfriend's rig.
This monkey was going to photograph some sharks!
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 24mm with B+W +2 diopter
1/160sec @ f7.1, ISO 400
Ikelite Housing and 8" Dome Port
Ikelite DS-125 Strobe on half power
Getting dynamic images of such an enigmatic animal proved more difficult than I originally thought. Maybe it is because leading up to this trip, I studied as many images as I could to better prepare, and in the process of doing so, saw some of the best and most amazing great white shark images in existence.
I did get a few I liked, and this one worked really well in black and white.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 24mm, +2 B&W diopter
1/125sec @ f7.1, ISO 400
Ikelite Housing, 8" Dome Port
Single DS-125 Strobe
A male white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) swims below through the rays of sunlight beaming down from above. The smaller fish in the image are mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus), which are abundant around the island. The mackerel are not a natural food item for white sharks, so they are often seen swimming close-by the sharks.
(To paraphrase the line from the film)
Just When You Thought it was Safe to go Play in the Snow.
A Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) rides the crest of a wave searching to a nice, juicy & tender meal to keep him warm on a cold February day.
This is the closest I've been to a Great White when not being in a shark cage. I wasn't panicking, but the adrenalin was really pumping. Sometimes you have to take risks to get the good shot.
A male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaks the surface off the coast of Mexico's Isla de Guadalupe. A small remora (not sure of the species) can be seen attached to the side of the shark.
The relationship between the shark and the remora is a symbiotic one that is mutually beneficial to both fish. The shark provides cover and protection to the remora from potential predators, while the remora cleans the shark of parasites such as copepods.
This particular shark had a couple of remoras with him every day that I saw him, and he appeared to be free of parasitic copepods, which are commonly seen on white sharks at Guadalupe.
This White Pointer has been on and off of the carving table for nearly twenty years and I figured it was about time it nears the completion stage. With the White Shark now finished, a base with a 'reef' and a California Sea Lion will finish it off. This is not an attack scene, but simply titled 'A Closer Look'. The shark is a male Carcharadon carcharious carved from basswood and measures about 21" in length. The teeth were carved and inserted after cutting off the lower jaw and carving the mouth interior then re-attaching it. The carving itself was relatively easy going, but the finish was another story. The Great white may look to be just gray and white, but subtle hues of umber and green are also present in it's silvery skin tone. I think I got it here with this carving. Under the nose to under the eye, a tedious time was taken to represent the electrical sensors known as the ampulla of Lorenzini (small black dots), which enables the shark to pick up the electrical impulses that all living creatures put out when muscles move...simply a miracle of evolution is the family of sharks. It may have taken many years to get to this stage, but the dream never died, just put on hold for a while. If you have a dream that doesn't seem to be within reach, just wait for the time to be ripe for it to come to fruition.
Great White Shark sculpture
"Mau" is a crafty male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) who I have seen many years at Guadalupe. He has a knack for sneaking up on you when you least expect it. I've never been able to get a decent shot of Mau. This was the best I got of him this past trip.
This particular great white shark must have some pretty good stories to tell based on the number of scars he/she has.
Tzitzimitl, a large female great white shark, swims underneath divers in surface cages at Isla de Guadalupe
A male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) rises toward the surface.
This was actually a test shot with a bait in the frame. (I removed the bait in post.) I had no intention of ever doing anything with this photo, but since I came up practically empty-handed on this trip, I worked on this one to make it somewhat presentable.