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Related: About this forumBlackwater (beautiful pics of deep sea creatures)
Photographer Joshua Lambus has put together a beautiful series of photographs showing luminous creatures of the deep glowing with light against a pitch-black background. The project is titled Blackwater.
The photographs were captured in the ocean during the Hawaii-based photographers deep dives. My photos are to show people things they havent seen before or maybe things they see all the time in a way theyve never cared to look, Lambus writes.
Lambus is a veteran of deep dives, having logged hundreds of dives for both personal and commercial purposes. The dives are held in the darkness of the night in water that is thousands of feet deep. Lambus ventures deep under the surface to photograph the animals as they float by.
In an interview with Underwater Photography Guide, Lambus compares photographing the faintly glowing creatures to taking pictures of a piece of aluminum foil and a piece of plastic wrap in a your closet with the lights out. If you can photograph them in focus and well exposed, then youre fit for this type of underwater photography.
Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/05/25/beautiful-close-up-underwater-photos-of-luminous-sea-creatures/
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Blackwater (beautiful pics of deep sea creatures) (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2013
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Too cool! Thanks for sharing :)
Though there's no way I'd go swimming down there
but being a natural history geek, I would like more info on what they are - taphonomy, ecology, etc
zeemike
(18,998 posts)3. Reality is stranger than fiction.
A SI FI writer could not dream up more fantastic creatures than actually exist in nature in the deep.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Majestic. Thanks n2doc.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)5. wow! Thanks for these!
so glad I saw this thread I love critters.
I think this little guy is my favorite!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. Thought they changed their name to Xe
calimary
(81,565 posts)8. Lol! I shared these on Facebook and said this was a Blackwater I liked.
In sharp contrast to the other Blackwater.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)7. beautiful, they look like the angels of evolution.