Little fish swim in a tide pool dappled in sunlight.
Abstracts: Little fish
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Abstracts: Whirlpool
I watched this little whirlpool come and go in a tide pool, its state varying with the influx of water from the ocean. Sometimes it disappeared altogether, but usually returned.
What first drew my attention was not the whirlpool itself, but the shadow on the floor of the tide pool, which varied from fairly circular to heart-shaped.
Abstracts: Four moorish idols
I came across this group of young moorish idols meandering through a crack in the rocks and liked how the location accentuated their narrow but curvy look.
Abstracts: Palm leaf
Not sure what kind of palm this is, but I liked the colors and structure of the leaf or frond.
Abstracts: Swishing seaweed
I hadn’t noticed these grasses or seaweeds before in an area where I snorkel regularly. But one day, there they were, swishing back and forth with the movement of the water. They weren’t around long, the sea floor soon being returned to its previous mix of sand, rock. and coral.
Abstracts: Water patterns
I like seeing the different colors and patterns of the water’s surface from below. It’s like a kaleidoscope with it’s ever changing appearance.
Abstracts: Breaking wave
I have a quest to get photos of breaking waves without getting myself smushed on the rocks. I like this one for the forms that the wave’s foam has taken – loops, tendrils and little blobs.
Abstracts: A splash of color
I like this photo for the three layers of different-colored underwater landscape. There’s the blue-green of the bottom, the pale, splotchy intermediate layer of rock, and the red-hued outcropping in the foreground. And complementing everything is the back end of a Christmas wrasse, disappearing from view.
Graham's Island 