1st Place Nudibranchs

Borut Furlan

"Hooded nudibranchs"

Borut Furlan (www.borutfurlan.com) won a Up to 10 nights on board MV Oceania for one person from Walindi Plantation Resort

The Story:

This was my first visit to Vancouver Island in October 2024 and my first visit to Canada at all. I didn't have much knowledge about the area; therefore, I decided to use a wide-angle zoom lens on most of my dives because of its diversity. It turned out that this was a good idea since I had the opportunity to photograph a wide selection of objects (except the smallest ones). When I reached the kelp forest with hooded nudibranchs, I was simply shocked. I have never before seen so many nudibranchs in one spot. There were many thousands of them and they were everywhere, on the bottom, on the kelp and they were even swimming. I shot hundreds of various images of them and this one is one from this series.

Location:

• Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

Equipment Used:

• Nikon D850, 
• Nikkor 28-80/3.3-5.6 + Nauticam WACP (converted to Seacam), 
• two Seacam 150D strobes

Camera Settings:

• ISO 400, 
• f/14, 
• 1/40s, 
• 28mm