New Year Day sunrise as seen from San Miguel Island. Particulates from the still active wildfires create the vivid colors.
Blood moon shortly after sunset on 1 January 2018. Clouds and atmospheric refraction create the color and apparent size. Shot with a 600 mm Tamron lens on a Nikon D500.
White anemone abound in the cold waters of San Miguel Island
Small purple urchin.
Greenling hunting for food.
How close can one get with a camera?
At least this close.
Another extreme close-up of a Rockfish, with the reflection of my strobes as an artifact.
Red anemone in profile.
Spanish Shawl nudibranch (Fabellina iodina)
Hermissenda crassicornis nudibranch
White anemone in profile using a gentle back-lighting
Barnacle gills surrounded by a field of Strawberry anemone (Corynactus)
Black Fringehead Blenny peers out of its hole.
Fog bank rolls off San Miguel Island in the early morning