The Underwater Woman, Christine Ren, in collaboration with photographer Brett Stanley has created an image called “Protect What’s Precious” that attempts to highlight the destructive effects of bottom trawling.
Becky Kagan Schott has kindly shared the details of what went into capturing her stunning image of the salon of the Yacht Gunilda. The wreck is in Lake Superior, Canada at 270 feet in 38°F water. Becky and her team ended up spending 2 hours in the water to capture this memorable image.
Jacques de Vos has posted this stunning image of orcas (Orcinus orca) onto the Wetpixel Facebook group. It was shot during one of his Arctic Freediving Expeditions in early November 2016 a few hours from Tromsø, Norway while freediving.
Václav Krpelik captured this amazing image of a whiptail stingray (Himantura fai) surrounded by a school of schooling bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes) whilst freediving in the Maldives. He was kind enough to share it on the Wetpixel Facebook Group.
Scott “Gutsy” Tuason captured this amazing image of a larvacean during a black water dive in the Maricaban Strait, Batangas, Philippines at 10 meters of depth. The picture shows a planktonic larvacean of the class Appendicularia, probably Oikopleura sp.
Domenico (Domy) Tripodi posted this portrait of a John Dory (St Pierre or Peter’s Fish) (Zeus Faber) onto the Wetpixel Facebook Group. It was taken in the Mediterranean Sea, off Reggio di Calabria, Italy at a depth of 50 meters (165 feet).
Wetpixel member Martyn Guess has posted this lovely image of massive shoals of baitfish hugging the reef at Two Tree Rock, Raja Ampat on the Wetpixel Facebook Group. It was taken in November last year on a Martin Edge workshop aboard the Dewi Nusantara liveaboard.
Wetpixel member, Sergio Ricardo has posted this amazing image of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) on the Wetpixel Facebook group. The image was taken while cage diving at Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
Franco Banfi has published an article on the European Canon Explorers blog about photographing orcas (Orcinus orca) in Norway last winter.