Stunning Underwater Photography

March 29, 2009 12:06 PM

Stunning Underwater Photography A website filled with incredible underwater photography. Particularly impressive shots of a sardine bait ball being attacked by dolphins, sharks, whales and birds.
posted by srboisvert (19 comments total)

If you prefer it here is a flickr river of his pics.
posted by srboisvert at 12:10 PM on March 29, 2009

I come for the high standard of user discourse, but I stay for the underwater photography.
posted by ORthey at 12:15 PM on March 29, 2009

Hmm... somethin' kinda fishy 'bout summa these shots.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:32 PM on March 29, 2009

Looking at these pictures makes me feel like an idiot for living where I live.
posted by nosila at 12:33 PM on March 29, 2009

Looking at these pictures makes me feel like an idiot for living where I live.

On land?
posted by The Whelk at 12:40 PM on March 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

Away from sharks?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:41 PM on March 29, 2009

You had me at "bait ball."
posted by Abiezer at 12:42 PM on March 29, 2009

I'll never be able to look at underwater photography without a bait ball again.
posted by pokermonk at 12:45 PM on March 29, 2009

Bait ball been berry berry good to me.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:48 PM on March 29, 2009 [3 favorites]

Particularly impressive shots of a sardine bait ball being attacked by dolphins, sharks, whales birds and insomniacs thinking, "this 'll be just the ticket."
posted by From Bklyn at 1:49 PM on March 29, 2009

These shots are really fabulous. I've been doing some underwater photography myself and it's pretty hard. This one is pretty interesting because it looks almost like an illustration (at least, the shark part of it, the diver in the background looks pretty normal). A similar thing happened to a photo I took, where I did autolevels on it in photoshop and it got really weird.
posted by snofoam at 2:12 PM on March 29, 2009

For those enjoying the bait ball pics, check out this video of a humpback whale stealing a bait ball.
posted by des at 3:07 PM on March 29, 2009 [2 favorites]

I could've sworn that said 'underwear photography' and so the whole thing about sardines just seemed in really bad taste.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 4:17 PM on March 29, 2009

Also, des, that was awesome. And upon further looking, I'm really glad my first reading was wrong.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 4:20 PM on March 29, 2009

These are so cool. I am such a sucker for underwater photography and these are particularly nice, thanks!
posted by mygothlaundry at 4:45 PM on March 29, 2009

These are unreal.
posted by rtha at 4:46 PM on March 29, 2009

This last weekend my wife discovered that one of the fish stores that we frequent just hatched some baby cuttlefish. Seeing the photos in the Alien Lifeforms section is going to do nothing to diminish her desire to set up a tank specifically for this purpose.
posted by quin at 4:57 PM on March 29, 2009

I totally thought you said underwear too.
posted by serazin at 8:40 PM on March 29, 2009

Beautiful. Thanks.
posted by jzed at 4:45 AM on March 30, 2009