About the Image(s)

This is a nudibranch in the sea slug family. The nudi part of the word is because They have no shell. Their defense is that they are poisonous to eat. They do not have eyes so the focus should be on the sensory organs in front. The upright part in back is the gills. They live on the bottomed will sometimes call up on an object or a wall. There are rare in the Atlantic but fairly common in the south Pacific. They are a favorite critter to photograph in the Philippines and Indonesia. They are usually 1-3 centimeters in size. I like to shoot them because of the variety. There are thousands of different ones.

I used a Canon 5d Mark 1/V with a 100mm macro lens and two flashes (1/200 sec, f/25, ISO 640). I use photoshop Camera Raw to enhance photos to my liking.