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Karen May 🤿📸
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Retired primary care pharmacist, owned by 3 cats, Geordie living in Wales, Scuba Diver, Amateur Underwater Photographer trying to get to grips with topside, wildlife friendly gardener,
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Sunlit goatfish Gota Abu Ramada Egypt 🦑🌊🤿
Two dive boats are moored next to each other in the midday Egyptian sun, causing sunbeams to cascade between them. A school of goatfish shelter in the shade below
September 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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World Oceans Day #marinelife #photography #underwaterphotography #OM1 🦑🌊 Manta on a Maldivian cleaning station
A manta ray slows down over a cleaning station to allow butterfly fish to pick off parasites and dead skin. He is surrounded by a school of fusilier fish. Maldives
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A dreamy puffin living in the campion on beautiful Skomer Island #OM1
photograph of a puffin in a field of white campion flowers which are blurred due to the shallow depth of field
June 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Sedge warbler - not underwater! Skomer Island, Wales
#om1 #omsystem
May 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Clown fish, Maldives #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
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A clownfish hides within a balled up anemone with its bright purple skirt visible at the edges
April 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Whale shark off the back of Maldivian dive boat 🦑🌊🤿
Whale shark hoovering up plankton at the surface under the lights at the back of a dive boat in the Maldives
March 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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A male cardinal fish mouth broods eggs at the barge dive site, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A brown and yellow striped fish in the Red Sea - within his open mouth you can see hundreds of silver eggs which he mouth broods.
March 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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A large cabbage coral cloaked in orange Anthias at Satellite Reef off Shark & Yolanda, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Three yellow cabbage corals like an underwater bouquet are cloaked in a school of orange anthia fish as a diver looks on
March 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I had one landing with eels but not ‘in flight’ - they fly really fast! This was Skomer last June
February 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A long nose hawkish hides him selves in a coral bush, Maldives 🌊🦑#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
A small fish with a red and white checked body and a pointy nose is hidden in the fronds of a golden coral bush
February 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Synchronised shoals in Raja Ampat
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A school of blue striped snapper (yellow fish) sweep right to left above a coral garden. Behind them a school of blue fusiliers sweep left to right
February 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Peek-a-boo!
A blennie from Curacao
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
#divesky #marinelife
January 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Red Sea Reefs - Shark & Yolanda Reef, Ras Mohammed Egypt
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide #marinelife
Vibrant colours of soft corals on a Red Sea reef (pinks, purple, red)
December 13, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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This was a discarded bottle lying on the seabed in Lembeh Straits Indonesia- two tiny yellow gobies have made their home inside the neck where they are protected from predators #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Two tiny yellow gobies living in a bottle discarded on the sea floor, Lembeh Straits Indonesia
December 6, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Throwback to Red Sea 2022. Marsa Shagra House Reef. A lionfish hunting at dusk
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #em10iii #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
An underwater scene, the sun is low in the sky giving the water an eerie green glow. A lionfish hunts for its supper amongst the coral, a sunburst above his head
November 23, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Nom Nom. A damsell in distress. A lizardfish eats a damselfish whole, Lembeh Straits, Indonesia #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt #marinelife
A lizardfish with a damselfish in its mouth
November 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Batu Rufus Raja Ampat
#underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #marinelife #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt
November 14, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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This is Lou Lou. She looks like a little angel but don’t be fooled. She’s just whacked her older brother just because she can! She’s torbie - so tabby markings with all the tortie attitude! #cats #adoptdontshop #rescuecat
November 12, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Please!
November 11, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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Manta night dive - Maldives. A bright light is shone off the back of the boat at night to bring plankton in, which brings the mantas, and a whale shark - these are barrel feeding
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
2 manta rays barrel feeding at night Whale shark at back of boat
November 11, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Lucky to ‘bump’ into this gang of Bumphead Parrotfish in Raja Ampat - they are so characterful, the big ones slow and steady and definitely in charge, the little ones zipping around
#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
School of bumphead parrotfish
November 10, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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The stunning reefs of Raja Ampat 🤿 #UnderwaterPhotography #Scuba #wildlifephotography #uwphotographer #uwpics #underwater #ocean # scubadiving #ScubaDiving #Underwater #Diving #olympusom1 #retrauwt
November 9, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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My first post 👋 to say Hi! Transitioning from the dark site. Any photog (esp underwater) recommendations? #OMSystems
November 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM