Eastport Photos

Just got back from a couple of weeks of diving in Eastport, Maine.  The diving itself was great; photographically, though, not so much.  Here are a few of the shots.

Nudibranch attacking a hydroid.  What I like are the colors and how uncluttered it feels.

I spent a while with this hermit while he was checking out a potential new shell.  He examined it from pretty much every angle, and even when he walked away from it, he stayed close by, eyeballing it from a distance.

This is the kind of shot I usually hate. And to be honest, I'm not sure I like this one either. There's no focal point, nothing happening. My prediction: within a week, this shot will be buried deep in an invertebrate folder, never to be seen again.

Just a nudibranch moving over a timber but I backed off a bit so you can see more of the surrounding area.

I really like this shot even though it's not immediately obvious what's happening in it.  A huge moon jelly was caught up in some urchins and the northern red anemone on the right had moved in to start feeding on it.  The jelly didn't have a chance. 

Wolffish are just so beautifully ugly.

Here's a nudibranch  laying out an egg string.  You can see the eggs just starting to pile up on the stalk of the hydroid.  There's nothing in the shot to give a sense scale but the nudibranch was huge.