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Latitude: 32° 49' 17.84" N, Longitude: 118° 21' 6.39" W, Coord: 32.821625°, -118.35178°
Filed under: Photo of the Day on 6/2/2005

One morning while diving at San Clemente Island I was struck by the lackluster light. It was cloudy and dark and I had yet to find any exciting subjects to shoot. I was spacing out in the shallows watching the kelp fishes meander among the weeds when I started fiddling around with long handheld exposures trying to find something interesting in the motion of seagrass as it was tossed about by passing swells. Here is what I got:

Surf grass on the rocky reef — appearing blurred in this time exposure — is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island, California, USA.
Image: 10240
Species: Phyllospadix sp.


Surf grass on the rocky reef — appearing blurred in this time exposure — is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island, California, USA. Image: 10237 Species: Phyllospadix sp.	A garibaldi fish (orange), surf grass (green) and palm kelp (brown) on the rocky reef — all appearing blurred in this time exposure — are tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island, California, USA. Image: 10238 Species: Phyllospadix sp., Hypsypops rubicundus	Surf grass on the rocky reef — appearing blurred in this time exposure — is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island, California, USA. Image: 10247 Species: Phyllospadix sp.

These photos were quite simple to expose and I shots hundreds of them on the dive, throwing away 95% of them upon review and ending up with a few worthwhile keepers.

Nikon D100, 12-24mm f/4 lens, f22 at whatever, available light.

Keywords: motion, blur, time exposure, seagras

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