Orthonopias triacis - Snubnose Sculpins

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Orthonopias triacis - Snubnose Sculpins

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Posted by Chris on December 15, 2006 at 10:45:54:

     On December 3, 2006 I was at Santa Rosa Island, California on the second day of a two day trip with the Sea Divers aboard the Peace. I decided to take a break from lobster hunting and take some pictures.
     On one dive I spotted some Cobalt Sponge (Hymenamphiastra cyanocrypta) on a rock and headed for it because it looks so good in pictures. When I got to the rock I spotted a Snubnose Sculpin (Orthonopias triacis) on the Cobalt Sponge. I took a picture of it and then it moved. As I started to look for it I noticed that the rock seemed to be covered with sculpins, so I stayed there the whole dive and took pictures of the little fish.
     The equipment used was an Olympus 5060 in a PT-027 housing, dual INON D-2000 strobes with my custom coffee can lid diffusers, and various combinations of INON macro lenses.

Snubnose Sculpin (Orthonopias triacis)on Cobalt Sponge (Hymenamphiastra cyanocrypta)

Snubnose Sculpin (Orthonopias triacis)

©Chris Grossman, diver.net

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Great shots... and nicely lit too nt stephen clark 22:47:18 12/15/06 (0)
Wild looking. Delicatly beautiful. (-) seahunt 18:05:53 12/15/06 (0)
Re: Orthonopias triacis - Snubnose Sculpins scottfiji 12:40:35 12/15/06 (1)
- Re: Re: Orthonopias triacis - Snubnose Sculpins Chris 14:12:08 12/15/06 (0)

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