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Baja California Wide-Angle 131 images Created 25 Sep 2018

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  • A playful juvenile California sea lion blows bubbles at me. These are amazingly curious animals and a dive with them is guaranteed to be a great time!
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  • Nick and Chris of Pro Photo Baja sharing this moment with a beautiful male bull shark.
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  • This bull shark brought his whole entourage to say hello to the divers. Image taken last Sunday at Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico.
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  • This enormous school of jacks can be seen regularly at Cabo Pulmo National Park, a marine protected area in the south of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. This area used to be almost dead due to overfishing, until the park was introduced and life bounced back in the most extraordinary fashion! It is now one of the most successful conservation projects in the world!
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  • A diver admiring one of the amazing coral heads in Cabo Pulmo National Park in Mexico. This Marine Protected Area offers an astonishing biodiversity. In order to protect this natural treasure, strict park rules are enforced by all dive operations, including temporarily closing certain, heavily frequented dive sites.
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  • Image taken with a Nikon D500 and Tokina 10-17mm fisheye in a Nauticam housing. Illuminated using two Inon Z-240 strobes.<br />
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  • This California sea lion chose a particularly photogenic spot for his morning playtime. In some languages, sea lions are called "sea dogs" and when watching them play it's not hard to see why! They pick up rocks, shells, starfish or anything else they can find, take their new toy to the surface and drop it, chasing it on the way down and sometimes encouraging divers to join in on the fun by "passing" their toy!
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  • Two striped marlin herd a sardine baitball. Seeing these guys hunt in the dozens has been the highlight of my week in Bahía Magdalena, Mexico. We also saw whales, makos, breaching threshers, dolphins, mahi mahi, countless turtles and lots and lots of sea lions. More pics to follow!
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  • fast track to extinction<br />
shark fishing camp
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  • Last week, I finally got to tick off one of my favourite sharks from my "animals I want to see" list, the shortfin mako! These are believed to be the fastest sharks (although now, some claim it might be the salmon shark) and their big, black eyes and crazy-looking jaws certainly add to their appeal. Here, one can be seen sharing the water, and the afternoon sun, with photographer extraordinaire Fabrice Guerin!<br />
That day, we saw three different individuals in the water (including a tiny baby, maybe 70cm long, but just as confident as the larger ones), and many more breaching!<br />
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Image taken with a Nikon D500 and Tokina 10-17mm fisheye in a Nauticam housing. Natural light only.<br />
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  • Following my previous post, this is yet another slightly more creative image. Using a slow shutter speed combined with flash blurs the background and shows the motion of the subject. Inspired by Nick More's stunning blurry blues. If you haven't yet seen his award-winning image from Cornwall in the UK, make sure you check it out now!
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  • A blue shark approaching in open water. These are, in my opinion, the most beautiful sharks of all with their long fins and big eyes.
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  • Some more whales from Magdalena Bay last week. Remember how I said they weren't the prettiest?
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  • Every winter, the grey whales of the eastern Pacific gather in the sheltered bays of the Californian peninsula. They make the long trip down from the cold and rich waters off Alaska to give birth to their calves, nurse them and mate. This annual migration is believed to be the longest annual migration of any mammal! What makes this species so interesting to the layman is not just their prehistoric look (let's be honest, they're not exactly the most photogenic whale...), but most of all their amazing curiosity. They regularly approach whale watching boats, and often even establish physical contact. The whales seem in no way bothered by the boats and will sometimes even atempt to play with them. This particular individual stayed with us for more than 15 minutes, slowly spinning underneath the boat, gently bumping it with its mouth and tail, and even showing us its belly a few times!
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  • I just cannot get enough of these beautiful animals! Can't wait to see them again next winter!
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  • Last Monday I had my very first encounter with what for me is the most beautiful of all sharks: the blue shark. These extremely elegant, pelagic animals are unfortunately a rare sighting in many parts of the world these days, due to the high demand for shark fins and other products. Their large pectoral fins make them a prime target for shark fishing worldwide and their lifestyle makes it fairly easy to catch them. Did you know that Spain is one of the top exporters of shark products? We Europeans tend to regard China as the source of all evil when it comes to shark-related issues, yet we're still very much part of the problem!  The IUCN currently lists the blue shark as near threatened. The last assessment, however, was made in 2005, so numbers are likely lower today, as commercial fishing continues largely unhindered.
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  • Not the usual blue shark picture, but I quite like the depth and eye contact on this one. What do you think? <br />
For me it's always fun to experiment with different angles and techniques, even though this dramatically decreases the number of keepers! This is something I should do a lot more often, and in fact it's kind of a new year's resolution for me.
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  • Yesterday I had the pleasure to share the water with a maximum of 6 silky sharks at the same time. Conditions were pretty rough but the sharks more than made up for the bounciness and strong currents.
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  • Cormorant hunting sardine. <br />
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Awarded Best In Show in the Beneath the Sea Imaging Competition and recipient of the David Doubilet Award for Excellence in Underwater Photography.<br />
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Awarded Best of Show and 1st place in the wide angle category in Deep Visions 2019 UPY Awards.<br />
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Awarded Runner Up of the Seascapes category and winner of the Seascapes Public Choice Award in Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year 2020.
    Strange Encounters
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  • Winner of Share Our Air 2020 Togetherness category
    The Hunt
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