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Bernhard Schwarzphotographyen · de

Series · 02

Underwater

60 photographs

Underwater photography plunges into a silent world of light, shadow, and the magical interplay of colors born from the fragile beauty of marine life.

A dense school of barracuda passing like a wall through blue water

A clownfish among the pale tentacles of its anemone

Macro: a sea urchin from above, red-brown spines around a rosette of white tubercles

A reef wall covered in red and white soft corals, a swarm of orange anthias in front

Macro: a hermit crab in a striped shell on violet coral polyps

Macro: an orange-and-white bristle worm on a pale coral stem, the transparent legs of a shrimp in front

A whale shark with its mouth open just below the surface in blue water

Macro: a bright red crab with white markings and long antennae at night

Two transparent paper nautilus octopuses drifting in black water

Macro: the eye of a giant clam, surrounded by turquoise and green patterned mantle

A manta ray from below, cleaner fish at its gill slits

Macro: the eye of a parrotfish, surrounded by turquoise and yellow scale patterns

A gorgonian and soft corals at the reef edge, swarmed by orange anthias

Macro: a white sea slug with blue and yellow appendages on an orange and violet starfish

Macro: the tentacles of an anemone tipped yellow-green above a magenta base

A Red Sea anemonefish in a purple anemone

An octopus sitting camouflaged on pale rock on the reef slope

Macro: a pygmy seahorse in a pink gorgonian, barely distinguishable from it

Four eagle rays silhouetted against the sun in open blue water

A sea turtle resting in an orange barrel sponge

Macro: a yellow sea slug with blue tubercles sitting on a green leaf

A nurse shark swimming in shallow, greenish-lit water

Macro: a transparent anemone shrimp with white markings on the pink base of an anemone

A mobula ray with remoras on its back just below the mirrored surface

Three dolphins gliding just beneath the surface, their backs mirrored in it

A blue triggerfish looking straight into the camera

An anemonefish with a broad white band above the bubble tips of an anemone

A school of red bigeyes beneath an overhang among feather stars

Macro: white and pink polyps on a crimson coral branch, more red branches behind

Two dolphins just below the moving surface

An eagle ray seen from below in blue water, wingtips spread wide

A large gorgonian at the reef edge, open blue behind it

A manta just below the surface, ripples of light drawn across its back

A manta approaching the camera head-on with its mouth open

A manta from below, its pale underside with dark spots against black

A manta backlit by a single lamp, darkness all around

A manta filter-feeding with its mouth wide open in the dark

A manta from the side, its cephalic fins rolled up

A manta from below with two more behind it in the dark

A manta head-on with open mouth in greenish water

A nurse shark swimming through shallow water beneath a school of yellow snappers

A nurse shark head-on, the barbels at its mouth clearly visible

Nurse sharks seen from below, one belly close above the camera

A scorpionfish lying camouflaged among white soft coral polyps

A pink soft coral standing against sunlight at the reef top

A red soldierfish in a niche among pale soft corals, small reef fish all around

A steep reef wall with pink and red soft corals, clouds of small fish in front

A grouper with brown spots looking out from a niche

A scorpionfish lying camouflaged in a field of white soft corals

A reef edge with gorgonians and soft corals, a swarm of small fish in front

A large white soft coral on a densely overgrown reef wall

A pink soft coral in a gap in the reef, glowing turquoise water behind

Pink and cream soft corals on a reef wall above the drop-off

A red scorpionfish resting on a stony coral

A golden gorgonian standing against the sun at the reef wall

The tail fin of a whale shark close up, in black and white

A manta ray from below in the dark, its underside lit

A school of yellow butterflyfish above a coral block, the sun beyond

A pink leaf fish sitting on turquoise growth