Photos of the Week #42

February 6, 2006

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Barbara Lloyd

2/5/2006
Mission Beach
Wreck Alley
NOSC Tower

Cabezon
Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Olympus C8080
Still from video

Tom Byrnes

1/31/2006
Cozumel, Mexico
Punta Tuniche

Hawksbill Turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata

Blue Striped Grunts
Haemulon sciurus

Olympus SP-350
Olympus PT-030 Housing
Underwater Wide 1 Preset
Internal Flash

Jim Lyle

2/5/2006
Rancho Palos Verdes
Wreck of the Avalon

Black Perch
Embiotoca jacksoni

Olympus c5050
Dual Ikelite DS-125 strobes
Inon Wide Angle Lens
f1.8, 1/60, ISO 64

Tracy Clark

2/5/2006
La Jolla Shores

Colorful Dirona
Dirona picta

Nikon D70
60mm lens

Kevin Lee

2/5/2006
Laguna Beach
Shaw's Cove
15'

Hopkin's Rose
Okenia rosacea

Olympus C-5060
One 90DX strobe

Terry Strait

2/4/2006
La Jolla Shores
North Wall
76'

Brown Rockfish
Sebastes auriculatus

Olympus 8080
Single DS125 strobe with TTL
f/5.0, 1/100, ISO 50

Dan Schooler

2/5/2006
Mission Beach
Wreck Alley
Yukon

US Navy hard hat divers from the Navajo descending on the Yukon

Peter Brueggeman

2/4/2006
Mission Beach
Wreck Alley
Ruby E

Painted Greenling
Oxylebius pictus

Club-tipped Anemones
Corynactis californica

and a Hermissenda, see him?

Horned Aeolid
Hermissenda crassicornis

Olympus 8080
Ikelite housing
Ikelite DS125 strobe

Jennifer Ayers

2/5/2006
Scripps Canyon

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Club-tipped Anemones
Corynactis californica

Matt Gieselman

2/4/2006
La Jolla Shores

Horned Aeolid
Hermissenda crassicornis

on a Squid Egg Sac
Loligo opalescens

Canon 20D
Ikelite DS-125 x2
60mm Macro

Mike Bartick

2/5/2006
Anacapa Island

Spanish Shawl
Flabellina iodinea

Steve Briggs

2/5/2006
La Jolla Shores

Stearn's Aeolid
Austraeolis stearnsi

Canon A95
Canon housing

Previous Weeks:

January 30, 2006 (POTW #41)

January 23, 2006 (POTW #40)

January 17, 2006 (POTW #39)

January 9, 2006 (POTW #38)

January 3, 2006 (POTW #37)

December 26, 2005 (POTW #36)

December 19, 2005 (POTW #35)

December 12, 2005 (POTW #34)

December 5, 2005 (POTW #33)

November 28, 2005 (POTW #32)

November 21, 2005 (POTW #31)

November 14, 2005 (POTW #30)

November 7, 2005 (POTW #29)

October 31, 2005 (POTW #28)

October 24, 2005 (POTW #27)

Special Half-year Favorites Page

October 17, 2005 (POTW #26)

October 10, 2005 (POTW #25)

October 3, 2005 (POTW #24)

September 26, 2005 (POTW #23)

September 19, 2005 (POTW #22)

September 12, 2005 (POTW #21)

September 6, 2005 (POTW #20)

August 29, 2005 (POTW #19)

August 22, 2005 (POTW #18)

August 15, 2005 (POTW #17)

August 8, 2005 (POTW #16)

August 1, 2005 (POTW #15)

July 25, 2005 (POTW #14)

July 18, 2005 (POTW #13)

July 11, 2005 (POTW #12)

July 5, 2005 (POTW #11)

June 27, 2005 (POTW #10)

June 20, 2005 (POTW #9)

June 13, 2005 (POTW #8)

June 6, 2005 (POTW #7)

May 31, 2005 (POTW #6)

May 23, 2005 (POTW #5)

May 16, 2005 (POTW #4)

May 9, 2005 (POTW #3)

May 2, 2005 (POTW #2)

April 25, 2005 (POTW #1)