Prints · Lembeh Strait · Limited edition of 20

Devils Night

Ambon scorpionfish black

The story · in my own words

An Ambon scorpionfish does not chase anything. It sits on the bottom, shaggy and fringed, and waits for something to come close enough.

The hairy growths over its eyes and along its back break up the outline, which is the whole defence and the whole method at once. Divers pass within a metre of one and see weed.

Lit against black water, it is the animal he would least want to meet in the dark. Lembeh Strait, north Sulawesi.

An Ambon scorpionfish against black water, the Lembeh Strait.

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Limited edition of 20 · printed to order

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Prices in US dollars; shipping is a flat $25 to Canada and the United States. Printed to order and shipped from Canada. Framing is not offered: shipping glass across a border is a bad idea for everyone.

02How it was made
How it was made · from the file

Eight lines from the dive

Exposure
ISO 100 · 1/250 · f18
Camera
1DX MKII + EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Housing
Nauticam 1DX MKII
Lighting
Single Retra strobes, Gen I
Accessories
100 Bar snoot
Technique
Snoot
Conditions
Dark and particulate
Visibility
10 m
The technique and lighting lines link to the craft articles that explain them. A dash means the record does not hold it, and I would rather show the gap than fill it.
03Where
Where · North Sulawesi

Photographed in Lembeh Strait

When you would see it in Lembeh Strait
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Copper is high season, grey is shoulder, a stub is closed. The same calendar the destination publishes.
Read the Lembeh Strait guide
04More from Lembeh Strait
More from Lembeh Strait

Postage is by the tube, not the sheet

Postage is the largest single cost in a print order, and it is charged by the tube. A second print travels in the same one.

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