{"id":7852,"date":"2016-01-16T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2018-12-30T02:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:46:58","slug":"seven-of-my-favorite-images-challengeonnaturephotography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/seven-of-my-favorite-images-challengeonnaturephotography.html","title":{"rendered":"Seven of my Favorite Images #challengeonnaturephotography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December a Facebook “challenge” was making the rounds named #challengeonnaturephotography<\/a>. One of my favorite underwater photographers, Allison Vitsky Sallmon<\/a>, nominated me to give it a try, and these are the seven images I plucked from my files to share. Each bears a special place in my personal history of travel, diving and photography, even if they don’t cut any new ground photographically. If you want to connect you can find me on Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>. Cheers, and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

\"Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

Ocean sunfish recruiting fish near drift kelp to clean parasites, open ocean, Baja California.
\nImage ID: 03267<\/a>
\nSpecies: Ocean sunfish<\/a>, Mola mola<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sunrise<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunrise breaking wave, dawn surf.
\nImage ID: 27978<\/a>
\nLocation: The Wedge<\/a>, Newport Beach<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dendronephthya<\/a><\/p>\n

Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world.
\nImage ID: 31378<\/a>
\nSpecies: Dendronephthya Soft Coral<\/a>, Anthias<\/a>, Dendronephthya<\/i><\/a>, Pseudanthias<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Gau Island<\/a>, Lomaiviti Archipelago<\/a>, Fiji<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bald<\/a><\/p>\n

Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of bald eagles.
\nImage ID: 22669<\/a>
\nSpecies: Bald eagle<\/a>, Haliaeetus leucocephalus<\/i><\/a>, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Kachemak Bay<\/a>, Homer<\/a>, Alaska<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

A curious Adelie penguin, standing at the edge of an iceberg, looks over the photographer.
\nImage ID: 25015<\/a>
\nSpecies: Adelie Penguin<\/a>, Pygoscelis adeliae<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Paulet Island<\/a>, Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>, Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Aerial<\/a><\/p>\n

Aerial photo of gray whale calf and mother. This baby gray whale was born during the southern migration, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place.
\nImage ID: 29029<\/a>
\nSpecies: Gray whale<\/a>, Eschrichtius robustus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Humpback<\/a><\/p>\n

Humpback whale (male) singing.
\nImage ID: 02813<\/a>
\nSpecies: Humpback whale<\/a>, Megaptera novaeangliae<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Maui<\/a>, Hawaii<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December a Facebook “challenge” was making the rounds named #challengeonnaturephotography. One of my favorite underwater photographers, Allison Vitsky Sallmon, nominated me to give it a try, and these are the seven images I plucked from my files to share. Each bears a special place in my personal history of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,143,146,63,72,81,89,187,190,116,123],"tags":[201,345,212,221,240,278,281,324,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-7852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alaska","8":"category-antarctica","9":"category-bald-eagle","10":"category-california","11":"category-fiji","12":"category-hawaii","13":"category-mexico","14":"category-ocean-sunfish","15":"category-penguin","16":"category-surf","17":"category-underwater-photography","18":"tag-alaska","19":"tag-antarctica","20":"tag-birds","21":"tag-california","22":"tag-fiji","23":"tag-marine-mammals","24":"tag-mexico","25":"tag-surf","26":"tag-whales"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}