This big rock was exposed during our recent minus tides. The shape of the rock is cool, but the rock itself is totally blanketed in sea anemones, barnacles and black mussels. The large black mussels used to be prevalent all up and down the Oregon coast. But in the 70’s people found out they taste delicious.

In #Underwaterphotography it is all about lighting. Even though the anemone is still, I move like an astronaut and have to adjust the strobes, aperture, shutter and focal length. With too quick shutter the background gets black and this gives more atmos… so it is like 3-5 pictures for a picture like this. One usually says 1/10 is successful in Underwater photography due to moving fish going out of focus and so on.

Strange stuff that exists down there huh! The spinning hard coral I took with a diver behjnd to show the sheer size of it. In the #anemone there is a solo #clownfish and a beautiful #Zebra #Lionfish is in the soft #barrelcoral. Barrels that often fits a diver even

A clownfish pokes the head out of a sea anemone.

immortal anemones, that fly like flowers

Having a good cup of coffee watching Nemo eat his food. Tried to get a pic of him feeding but he must be scared of the camera or coffee cup stays in his little hammer sea anemone. Happy Friday !!!