Images from Last week

[Ron Boyes 0]

Hi All,

 

I hope you enjoy these images - several hundred more to look at and process - keeps me home at nights:)

 

http://homepage.mac.com/imagesdownunder

 

regards

ron

[laz217 0]

You got THE shot! A Bluering Octopus with eggs!!! That is awesome. Great pygmy shot too. Looks to have been an amazing trip. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your images. Thanks for sharing.

[ssra30 0]

Very nice, I love the bluering octopus with the egg as well.

[Drew 0]

Very nice stuff. The hairy frogfish doing the yawn is also very cool. Makes me almost want to go back to Lembeh... oh wait I am going back LOL

[acroporas 0]

All the images you posted are excelent. I wish I could compliment another shot since the ocotopus shot has allready got 2 posts but I just cant not mention that octopus. It is so cool. You can even see the baby's eyes through the eggs.

[herbko 0]

Beautiful shots. Love the Anenome fish and the baby benggai cardinal fish.

[expatdiver 0]

Very nice. Like a few other people said, the bluering with the eggs is awesome. I've six weeks until I hit Lembeh for the first time. Thanks for the tease.

[Ron Boyes 0]

Very nice.  Like a few other people said, the bluering with the eggs is awesome.  I've six weeks until I hit Lembeh for the first time.  Thanks for the tease.

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Leave the 10.5 at home unless you are going elsewhere and make sure you have a dioptre for the 105 you will need it.

have a great trip.

regards

ron

 

ps

All my images were taken with a D2X and 70-180mm Zoom and using a wetlens when required.

[MikeVeitch 0]

Good stuff Ron, i am partial to the yawning frogs myself....

[ssra30 0]

I hope the bluering egg is not hatched yet. I will be there in 9 days

[Alex_Mustard 0]

I like the Ambon Scorp, first up. Just a lovely clean, well lit, critter shot.

[Lionfish43 0]

Wow.....some of the best I've seen.

[james 0]

Wow, a pygmy seahorse photo where the seafan polyps are still out - good stuff!

 

Cheers

James

[Drew 0]

I hope the bluering egg is not hatched yet. I will be there in 9 days

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If I remember correctly, the octopus incubation period is about 50 days... you have a good chance... get some 10:1 of the eggs! Khaw hoi chok dee!

[Kelpfish 15]

Excellent work. Very nice Blue ring. I was there a few weeks ago when they were mating. Now all you need is them hatching.

 

Joe

[james 0]

I think Rod Klein has a photo of the same Octo w/ eggs - just posted on his site w/ his new Lembeh photos.

 

Cheers

James

[Ron Boyes 0]

I think Rod Klein has a photo of the same Octo w/ eggs - just posted on his site w/ his new Lembeh photos. 

 

Cheers

James

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He does, we were on the same dive. I like diving with him, he is very considerate of us amatuers.

I would recommend is digital workshop to anyone wishing to improve there images.

 

regards

ron

[davephdv 0]

Fantastic shots.

 

I see you like the graphite background in homepage as well.

[Alex_Mustard 0]

I like Rod Klein's photography. Even in Lembeh he still manages to produce original shots. Alex

[MikeVeitch 0]

I like Rod Klein's photography. Even in Lembeh he still manages to produce original shots. Alex

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Ahhh good ol Rod...

I remember when he didn't know a Nik V from the strobe!!!! He was all about video back in the day....then comes Digital.

 

And look at him now! I will certainly take credit for getting him off the video crutch and into the world of stills, lets just say i inspired him..(or gave him a lot of crap for using a video camera and not knowing what an fstop is)

:)

 

Rod, i hope you read this....looking forward to an interesting reply in my inbox...

[ssra30 0]

If I remember correctly, the octopus incubation period is about 50 days... you have a good chance... get some 10:1 of the eggs! Khaw hoi chok dee!

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hmmm 10:1, I wish! I am now absolutely broke otherwise I was very tempted to get the sigma 150mm with a diopter. That could be a lot of fun. For now I am stuck with 70-180mm with 6T diopter. May be I can steal my divebuddy's 105mm with double teleconverter

 

First time I saw bluerign octopus before I really knew what it was, I just stick my C5050 right next to it to get a picture. Now that somebody told me how poisonous it is, I am a bit wary Ignorance is blissed (sometimes)

[Drew 0]

I like Rod Klein's photography. Even in Lembeh he still manages to produce original shots. Alex

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It helps to be there weeks and months at a time. It's like living in the playboy mansion for a 15 year old hetero male.

I remember in 2001 when Rod was in KBR I believe the first or second time... he didn't know a melibes from a phyllodesmium... now look where he is.

 

SSRA30

I believe there is an organ market somewhere on Rachadapisek Rd...opps wrong market

[larrym 0]

Really nice collection! (How do you get the fish to yawn??) Tell us about your equiment you were using for these...

 

Larry M

[ssra30 0]

SSRA30

I believe there is an organ market somewhere on Rachadapisek Rd...opps wrong market 

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Alright, I think I might be willing to part with my left cornea for the 150mm (only need my right eye for the view finder!) or sell my hair to the wig factory. However, I have to save one kidney and one liver lobe for the D3 and housing

 

Shoosh! don't tell anyone about the market on Rachadapisek! B)

[Ron Boyes 0]

Really nice collection!  (How do you get the fish to yawn??)  Tell us about your equiment you were using for these...

 

Larry M

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Hi Larry,

 

I am using a Nikon D2X in a Subal Housing and a 70-180mm Zoom Lens with a Nikon SB800 Flash in a Subal Housing.

 

How do you make a fish yawn? - patience and luck are the only way I have found, it took almost 40 mins to get the shot.

I gave up waiting on the red hairy frogfish - as our dives were limited to 60mins - maybe next time.

ron