Contributors
Gary McDonald* » 186 photos
He has studied nudibranchs for more than 40 years, with main interests in taxonomy, nomenclature, and feeding preferences. He obtained his B.Sc. in 1970 from California Polytechnic State University; & M.A. in 1978 from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. He was a marine biologist and computer specialist at Long Marine Laboratory, University of California at Santa Cruz, from 1976 to 2007. He retired in 2007 and is now a Research Fellow at Long Marine Laboratory. His interests include “macro ... read more
Yuji Law* » 172 photos
Yuji is a nudibranch lover from Malaysia. He has lived as an expatriate in Singapore since Jan 1997. His passion is underwater photography especially macro critters. He has been dubbed a Macro Maniac for taking extreme close-ups and focusing on only small parts of his objects as he is fascinated by the color, details and texture of shrimps, fish, nudibranchs and corals.
He claims that he is still learning to shoot and to get good angles, and continues to study the technical and artistic ... read more
Ronnie Ng* » 167 photos
Ronnie Ng runs Bubbles Dive Center located on the secluded beach of Perhentian Islands (Big Island) Malaysia. He has a special eyes for nudibranchs. Specialized in macro photography and loves muck diving.
Harry Blalock » 158 photos
Harry has been diving since 1972, when his family used to go to the Florida Keys for vacations. He has been living on the island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands for the past 11 years, and has logged in over 1500 dives on Saipan in that time. He recently took up digital underwater photography and has been discovering all kinds of new subjects to photograph, including many nudibranchs. You can see some of his other pictures at www.saipandiver.smugmug.com
Marli Wakeling* » 157 photos
Website: www.marliwakeling.com
As a seasoned high school art and photography teacher, scuba certification in 1994 was soon followed by taking up underwater photography while volunteering on a CEDAM International Conservation Project in Akumal, Mexico. She has been a "brancher" since becoming a diver. She has won numerous photography awards, including Photographer of the Year at the Canadian Underwater Images Competition in 2000. Since that time she has been published in a variety of ... read more
Mike Krampf* » 153 photos
Mike has been diving for over 25 years and was fortunate enough to get an expat assignment in Malaysia from March, 2005 to July, 2007. It was during this period that Mike began to appreciate macro diving and became fascinated by all the different species of nudibranches. Mike took advantage of his short stay in Asia to visit many great dive locations like Palau, Raja Ampat, Alor, Komodo, Bali, Vietnam, Sulawesi, Lembeh Strait, the Philippines (Anilao, Puerto Galera, Tubbataha and Malapascua), ... read more
Dave Peltier* » 152 photos
Photographs taken: Halgerda carlsoni, Discodoris boholiensis, Chromodoris preciosa, Phyllidiopsis krempfi, Tambja sagamiana, Aplysia kurodai, Hypselodoris sp., Halgerda willeyi, Ceratosoma trilobatum, Phyllidiella granulata and more ...
Tatiana Antokhina » 126 photos
Tanya is a Ph.D student of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution in Moscow now. She is studying symbiotic animals associated with shallow-water tropical sea stars and she is very interested in beautiful nudibranchs.
Her first dive was in 1998 in the Black sea in Russia. After a long time since her first dive Tanya has started diving in 2003 in a cold water of the White and Barents seas at the North of Russia. Later she also has been diving in tropical seas since 2006. Tanya has made dives in ... read more
Dave Morgan* » 122 photos
Started diving with his wife, Janet, in 1998 at the age of 47 after watching a TV personality doing a “underwater documentary”, took a PADI course in the UK, once qualified they dived together in the UK every week.
The fist places he and his wife visited overseas were Sharm El Shiekh in Egypt and Gibraltar, it was not long before Dave purchased a 35mm Motor Marine II, he only managed to get one or two decent shots from this camera after going through roll upon roll of film so he gave up ... read more
Wolfgang Krutz* » 115 photos
Wolfgang has started diving many years ago in the cold waters of Lake Constanze in south Germany. He soon realized that there is more to diving than dry suits and no visibility and went to the tropics.
In 2001 he founded the Water Worx Dive Center in Padang Bai, Bali and in 2003 he took up underwater photography mainly for the reason to show his guest on his dive center’s web site what treasures underwater Bali has to offer. Then it became passion…