Mark R. Showalter
Underwater Photography

  • Wreck of the "Doc Poulson"
  • Nassau grouper on the Doc Poulson wreck. Note that you can see all the way through its gills!
  • The Doc Poulson wreck, with garden eels in the foreground.
  • Probably some type of parrotfish. I can't find it in my book but I'll keep looking. We saw quite a few of them. They'e very colorful and I love the pattern around the bright yellow eyes.
  • School of blue tangs
  • Garden eels in the sand.
  • Diamond blenny. Easy to photograph because they don't move---but often hard to spot because they blend in well.
  • Closep of garden eels. They hide in their holes when someone comes nearby.
  • Obligatory photo of a turtle. This one was very tame and didn't care that I was just a few feet away.
  • Pederson cleaner shrimp.
  • Lobster under an outcropping.
  • Banded coral shrimp on a sponge.
  • "Flamingo tongue" eating its way across a sea fan.
  • Probably a graysby, a type of sea bass. It was sitting on the bottom hoping to be ignored.
  • A trumpetfish trying to hide inside a coral.
  • A hogfish rummaging through the sand.
  • Blue chromis with an anemone.
  • Knobbed porgy trying to hide underneast som of the wreckage of the Oro Verde.
  • I liked the abstract pattern in this closeup of a sponge, with my strobe lighting it from the left.
  • Probably some type of small sea bass but I can't quite identify the species.