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PENTAX Optio WP

ƒ/3.3

6.3 mm

1/30

When I revisited my spotted eagle ray friend, I once again kicked as fast as I could, with fins, to keep up with him… this time a bit deeper.

The little streaks are motion blur from particles in the water, near the camera.

JKaljundi noted that this ray “grows to 3 m width. It sometimes even leaps high out of the water, the only ray to do that.”

eye of einstein

Dec 17, 2005 at 3:16 am

Swimming with rays off of Kona Coast How cool is that..?

Cool Picture..!

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Anna Psalmond

Dec 17, 2005 at 5:52 am

cool shot

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Automatt

Dec 17, 2005 at 9:05 pm

Nice catch!

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charming dust

Dec 17, 2005 at 9:15 pm

very awesome catch! i know how hard it is to catch something movin’ that fast underwater!

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island friend

Dec 18, 2005 at 9:56 pm

awesome photo

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zenera

Dec 20, 2005 at 10:13 pm

beautiful fishy, love the blurrr

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Jaxpix50

Dec 23, 2005 at 10:32 pm

Amazing.. how wonderful to see this .. sitting here in my little kitchen!!! (123)

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*CA*

Dec 23, 2005 at 11:11 pm

Gorgeous color and a marvelous image of this cool critter. (1-2-3-)

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TheMindsEye

Dec 23, 2005 at 11:28 pm

Take off! Great shot! (1-2-3)

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icy thought

Dec 24, 2005 at 1:38 am

Beautiful! 123

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aolima

Jan 30, 2006 at 2:11 am

Nice!!!

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WisDoc

Jul 10, 2006 at 6:53 am

Very cool! I got to hold a stingray once when I went snorkeling near the Cayman Islands – they look so cool when they are swimming!
(from Scientist Photographers group)

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pumped dinosaurs

Jun 10, 2008 at 9:52 pm

Great shot.

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Jul 3, 2008 at 12:48 am

it feels like the ray is blasting past you. very nice effect.

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jurvetson

Jul 3, 2008 at 1:12 am

it was!

thanks.

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breic

Jan 13, 2009 at 4:33 am

I don’t know whether spotted eagle rays breach or not, but manta rays definitely do.

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