The pugnose pipefish is about the width of a few strands of thread, and it lives its whole life among the polyps of a single coral head. Look at how large the polyps appear in the frame and you have its scale.
It is found higher on the wall than most of the small things divers search for, where the surge reaches, so the diver sways while the subject does not.
The light is a snoot at eighty degrees, a narrow beam that casts across the polyps and leaves the rest dark. Holding it, and the camera, and position, on a deep Misool wall in a gentle surge is the whole difficulty of the picture. Misool, Raja Ampat.
A pugnose pipefish, Misool.
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Eight lines from the dive
Photographed in Misool
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