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Honeycomb coral (Diploastrea heliopora)

Found: Maeda point ,Okinawa

Depth: 45feet /day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxHrBV0Pu_A

Ikelite Underwater housing/ 2 x ikelite strobes / Canon 70d 100mm macro - Light and gobe 7000 and Nightsea

Photography by Shawn M Miller

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Fish eye -

Found: Maeda point ,Okinawa

Depth: 45feet /day

Ikelite Underwater housing/ 2 x ikelite strobes / Canon 70d 100mm macro -

Light and motion gobe 700 and Nightsea

Photography by Shawn M Miller

 

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Maeda point is the most popular diving location in Okinawa. In the summer months it is filled with hundreds of people Diving and snorkeling.

Canon 70d CANON EF-S10-18ISSTM EF-S 10-18mm F4.5-5.6 IS STM

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Crinoid - Feather star feeding at night

Location: Maeda point Okinawa

Depth: 25feet at night on the reef

Nikon D90 105macro

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Coral of Okinawa, Japan

Location: Maeda point

Depth: 65-85 feet at night

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More Info on Photographing Fluorescence www.nightsea.com/ This is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

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The only reason I found this was because a scuba class of twelve divers came through the cut and sturred up the area. I saw a leaf hovering in the water after the divers passed, I looked closly and found a new born octopus grasping on the leaf for protection- it stayed on the leaf for a few minutes and eventually moved on.

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Location: Maeda pt, Okinawa-jp

Night dive in June 2012

Nikon d90 105macro x 2 ikelite strobes

sola 600 light

Gomophia gomophia -

A closeup of this beautiful starfish.

Found: Horseshoe beach Okinawa- Japan

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Yellow Boxfish (Ostracion cubicus)

 

Date: March 24, 2018

Ark Dive

Sunabe Seawall

Chatan-cho

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

 

Slightly more rare in my experience these are quite small fish. I pursued this fish for 5 minutes then gave him a break. Lovely colors. I think of this as the Zispepo fish now!

 

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We found a large Halgerda diaphana nudibranch crawling on the sand-

Location: Horseshoe ,Okinawa

Depth:100feet

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Ryukyu coral -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxHrBV0Pu_A

Found: Maeda point ,Okinawa

Depth: 65feet /day

Photography by Shawn M Miller

Ikelite Underwater housing/ 2 x ikelite strobes / Canon 70d 100mm macro - Light and gobe 7000 and Nightsea

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Juvenile Dusky Parrotfish (Scarus Niger) on Flower Pot Coral (goniopora lobata)

 

Date: April 29, 2018

 

Sunabe Seawall

 

Chatan-cho

 

Okinawa Prefecture

 

Japan

 

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

 

I had a lot of fun with this soft coral fish. I was toward the back end of my only dive for that day, and noted a very small movemetn in the fronds of this flower pot coral. Through patience and persistence I was able to use my 105mm with my 2.0 teleconverter to get some nice close shots. This fish was in Brownian motion (ceaseless random motion) across the soft coral. I don't think you could use a super macro converter or a magnifier to get these shots since the subject is very dynamic...

  

FISHBASE DATA:

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Lion fish (Pterois volitans)

Location: Maeda point ,Okinawa

A different perspective !

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Nago Seawall

Okinawa , Japan

April 8, 2018

60 feet or 18 meters of water

 

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Coral Rock Grouper (Epinephelus corallicola)

 

Date: July 8, 2018

Onna Point

(Horseshoe Point)

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 90 feet or 27 meters of depth under water

 

This is a Grouper that I see less frequently. It's quite large compared to a black tip, but about the same size as a Minatus Grouper. It was fairly patient with me and let me dial in this nice exposure.

 

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Blue Ringed Octopus -

Hapalochlaena lunulata

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- Blue rings become more intense when it is aggrevated. Extremely venomous! Do not touch!!

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Found: Maeda pt-Okinawa,Jp - Night dive

Size: Golf ball size

Nikon D90 - 105macro

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Zombie knuckles (Stichopus variegatus ?)

A close-up of a large sea cucumber found in Okinawa

Location: Mamasan beach

Depth: 45feet on sand

Size: 15inches

 

Ikelite underwater housing x 2 ikelite strobes

Canon 70d 100macro

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Underwater fluorescense - Coral of Okinawa, Japan

Location: Maeda point

Depth: 65feet

Corals that fluoresce

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Below is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

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More Info on Photographing Fluorescence

www.nightsea.com/ This is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

The master of camouflage

Fringelip Flathead (Thysanophrys otaitensis)

Found: Kadena north

Depth: 45feet at night

Fish size: 10inches

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Date: July 8, 2018

Turtle Beach

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 60 feet or 18 meters underwater

 

Saddleback Clown Fish

Yellow Anemone Fish

 

Stichodactyla haddoni

Haddon’s Sea Anemone

 

This school of anemone fish was living on a Haddon’s Sea Anemone. Usually this arrangement with Haddon’s makes the fish lighter in color. A conical shell was right next to their anemone. The anemone fish attached all their eggs to it. If you zoom in on this photo (flic.kr/p/29F64B9) you can see algae growing on the eggs. The parents (breeding pair) were cleaning the eggs constantly with their mouths.

 

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Underwater florescence -

(Tubastraea sp) Coral

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Location: Kadena ,Okinawa

Depth: 45feet at night

More Info on Photographing Fluorescence www.nightsea.com

 

This is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

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My Blog -http://okinawanaturephotography.com/blog/ Canon 70d 100mm / Ikelite housing

Date: May 6, 2018

Sunabe Seawall

Chatan-cho

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

 

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

  

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Date: april 28, 2018

Ark Dive

Sunabe Seawall

Chatan-cho

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

  

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Coral reef near okuma { Ogimi Village)

Okinawa-Japan

Nikon D90- Tokina 11-16mm

Depth 35feet

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April 14, 2017

Maeda Point

Maeda-misaki 真栄田岬

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Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

30ish feet of water.

 

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Giant Blue Spot Grouper (Cephalopholis argus)

Toilet Bowl

Onna Village

Okinawa , Japan

December 24, 2017

60 feet of water

 

Seen around 60 feet as we transited the fisherman/shark hangout area of the reef. At first i thought this was a Greasy Reefcod, but its size was immense! When i looked at the photos it is clearly not the same grouper. It spent all its time in the rocks and retreating back deeper. I liked this shot best sincethe shadowing of the mouth and luminance on the eye make it looks menacing, but it was a very cautious fish in reality. The lines of the body folded on itself also lend a dynamic effect to the picture.

 

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Nago Seawall

Okinawa , Japan

March 18, 2018

60 feet of water

 

A challenging shot. This very small (2-3cm) nudibranch was moving!

 

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Underwater fluorescense - Coral of Okinawa, Japan

Location: Maeda point

Depth: 65feet

Corals that fluoresce

okinawanaturephotography.com/fluoro-diving-in-okinawa-japan/

 

Below is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

www.flickr.com/photos/okinawaphotos/13893165429/

 

More Info on Photographing Fluorescence

www.nightsea.com/ This is the SOLA NIGHTSEA I used to photograph these specimens underwater

Date: July 8, 2018

Onna Point

(Horseshoe Point)

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 60 feet or 18 meters underwater

 

Beaded Sea Anemone,

Glass Bead Anemone,

Beaded Sand Anemone,

Aurora Anemone,

Glasspearl Anemone,

Flat Anemone

 

Clown Fish

False Clown Fish

 

Beaded Sea Anemones (Heteractis aurora) are a fairly common species in Okinwa. The two banded anemone fish (Amphiprion bicinctus) are also common. They are enticing to take photos of, but can yeild mixed results. This photo is somewhat satisfying with nice detail on both the fish and the anemone.

 

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Sepioteuthis lessoniana - Squid eye

 

Sepioteuthis lessoniana - Big fin reef squid eye

Squid size: body 16inches

Found: Kadena, Okinawa @ night

Depth: 40feet

Nikon D90 105macro X 2 ikelite strobes

 

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Nikon D90

105.0 mm f/2.8

Date 25MAR2017

Sunabe Seawall

Chatan-cho

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 60ft

  

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Toilet Bowl

Onna Village

Okinawa , Japan

December 23, 2017

60 feet of water

  

Was doing a maintenance of skills dive with the old man of Okinawa, Shawn Miller. This clown was part of a neighborhood of clown families and came out nicely. The Heteractis species anemone can be challenging with exposure...

 

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Date: July 8, 2018

Turtle Beach

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 60 feet or 18 meters underwater

  

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A large soft coral seafan ( Subergorgia mollis)

Depth: 100feet

Location: Horseshoe beach

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Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X

These small squid are very difficult to photograph in open water at night-

Eumandya parva

This squid was about the size of a dime-

Location: Meada point ,Okinawa

( Euprymna berryi )

 

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Maeda point is the most popular diving location in Okinawa. In the summer months it is filled with hundreds of people Diving and snorkeling.

 

Canon 70d CANON EF-S10-18ISSTM

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Photography by Shawn Miller

Toilet Bowl

Onna Village

Okinawa , Japan

December 24, 2017

60 feet of water

  

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CEPHALOPOD AWARENESS DAYS, OCT. 8-12

October 10 – Squid Day/Cuttlefish Day, or Squittleday, covering the tentacular species

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Sepia latimanus - Baby Broadclub Cuttlefish

Location: Okinawa-Japan

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Nikon D90

105.0 mm f/2.8

Juvenile Dusky Parrotfish (Scarus Niger)

 

Date: May 6, 2018

Sunabe Seawall

Chatan-cho

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

 

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

 

I went back with a bit more patience. Spent most of a solo dive photographing this beauty. Cropped my image some, but original was pretty tight since I used a 210 equivalent combination. More shots to come!

  

FISHBASE DATA:

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Chromodoris annae

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Nudibranch of okinawa

Found: Maeda point

Depth: 45feet

Size: 45mm

Note- look close and you will see the parastic copepod

(Octopus cyanea) - common octopus mating pair

Location: Manzamo ,Okinawa-Japan

Depth: 45feet on the reef

Camera: Canon 70d 10-18mm macro/ Ikelite housing

Light & Motion Sola 600

 

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Honeycomb coral (Diploastrea heliopora)

Found: Maeda point ,Okinawa

Depth: 45feet /day

Ikelite Underwater housing/ 2 x ikelite strobes / Canon 70d 100mm macro

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Its been a while since I have been diving! It was nice to get back in the water!

 

Marine Macro Photography ( Underwater flash photography )

Location: Maeda point, Okinawa-Japan

Fish name: Tomato Anemone fish ( Amphiprion frenatutus)

Depth: 45feet /day dive

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Nago Seawall

Okinawa , Japan

April 28, 2017

40 feet of water

 

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Nago Seawall

Okinawa , Japan

April 28, 2017

40 feet of water

 

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Lion fish ( Dendrochirus zebra)

Location: sunabe seawall

Okinawa, Japan

Depth: 35feet

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10.0-17.0 mm f/3.5-4.5

Unidentified feather star-

Found: Maeda point ,Okinawa

Depth: 45feet on the reef at night.

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A pre-dive IPhone photo of the underwater rig. This is my setup I now use for photographing the underwater fluorescence of the Ryukyu islands.

Featured- www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-techniques/...

 

Ikelite underwater housing

Canon 70d 60mm macro

1 Light & Motion Sola nightsea / 1 GoBe night sea

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Hypselodoris bullocki - Nudibranch (literally naked lung in Latin)

 

Date: April 29, 2018

 

Sunabe Seawall

 

Chatan-cho

 

Okinawa Prefecture

 

Japan

 

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters of depth under water

 

A prolific and reliably seen nudibranch, I am always greeted by them on my dives. They range in size from quite small to large. They have a tendenc to hold on with the caudal section (rear end) of their body and try to climb/find purchase with their rostral end (front part). This one was spotted on the way to the exit after 95 minutes at depth with 500psi, which any diver knows is when you see the best creatures!

  

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Razor coral-

Found Maede point ,Okinawa

Depth: 85feet

Ikelite housing/ Canon 70d 100 macro/2 x ikelite strobes

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