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Bryan Blauvelt Photography

📷 Ultralight Camera Solutions Brand Ambassador
✈️ Bluewater Travel Trip Leader
🥇🥈Awarded UPY 2024, 2025, 2026
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08/13/2026

📷 Reef Scenic
📍 Coral Corner, October 2025
🇫🇯 Vatu-i-rah Marine Reserve, Fiji

Photographer Mark Strickland swims over a ledge of thriving soft corals and gorgonians amongst an explosion of fish. Vatu-i-ra Marine Reserve, in Fiji's famous Bligh Water.

Image created on a workshop with Mark Strickland Photography - Marine and Underwater Images and Bluewater Travel aboard the NAI'A liveaboard.

07/29/2026

What’s covered in polka dots and totally poisonous?

This Phyllidia ocellata nudibranch advertises its toxicity with bold yellow, black, and white patterns. What a great example of nature using bright colors to say, “Don’t eat me!”
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📷 Ocellate Phyllidia (Phyllidia ocellata)
📍 Bethlehem, November 2025
🇵🇭 Anilao, Philippines

Sony A1, Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS, Kraken Sports +6 M67 Macro Diopter, Retra Pro Max II strobes with Ultralight Camera Solutions clamps and arms.

07/16/2026

📷 Reef Manta Ray (Mobula alfredi)
📍Moofushi Kandu, March 2025
🇲🇻 South Ari Atoll, Maldives

One tiny fish controls this massive manta.

At cleaning stations, tiny cleaner wrasses remove parasites, dead skin, and mucus from manta rays like this one at Moofushi Kandu. The mantas slow down and even hover patiently, often circling back again and again in a mesmerizing dance.

Watching this behavior was one of my favorite underwater encounters in the Maldives. It was a good reminder that size isn't always what determines who's in charge.

Have you ever witnessed a manta at a cleaning station?

Image created on a workshop with Alex Mustard Underwater Photography,

07/10/2026

📷 Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
📍 Coral Walls, June 2025
🇵🇫 Moorea, French Polynesia

Some wildlife moments can't be planned.

Many underwater encounters are over before your camera is ready. This green sea turtle in Moorea had other plans. As we cruised along the reef, she descended from the surface after taking a breath. Instead of turning away from us, as turtles often do when they spot a diver, she swam straight toward me and lingered for a moment, giving me one of my favorite turtle portraits.

It's moments like these that keep me coming back to the ocean. What's the most unforgettable underwater encounter you've ever had?

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07/01/2026

📷 California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus)
📍 Los Islotes, November 2025
🇲🇽 Baja California Sur, Mexico

A large California sea lion bull patrols his colony late in the afternoon at Los Islotes, just off the northern tip of Isla Espíritu Santo, Mexico. A playful sea lion pup frolics in the distance. This image was created while leading a workshop for Bluewater Travel .

06/26/2026

📷 Ribbon Eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita)
📍 Lembeh Strait, April 2026
🇮🇩 North Sulawesi, Indonesia

A juvenile ribbon eel peers out from its burrow in the sandy bottom at Nudi Falls. Born entirely black, these eels undergo a transformation into to blue-colored males. Some males eventually transform again into yellow females as they mature.

Sony A1, Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 Macro GM, Nauticam MFO-1, Retra Pro Max II strobes with Ultralight Camera Solutions clamps and arms.

06/18/2026

📷 Emperor Shrimp (Zenopontonia rex)
📍 Koala, November 2025
🇵🇭 Anilao, Philippines

The Emperor Shrimp (Zenopontonia rex) is one of the reef’s most fascinating hitchhikers. This tiny crustacean spends much of its life riding on sea cucumbers and nudibranchs, using them for transport and protection while blending seamlessly with the host. Their commensal relationship offers a glimpse into the intricate ecological connections that make aquatic ecosystems so diverse and remarkable.

Sony A1, Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS, Kraken Sports +6 M67 Macro Diopter, Retra Pro Max II strobes with Ultralight Camera Solutions clamps and arms.

06/04/2026

📷 Ambon Scorpionfish (Pteroidichthys amboinensis)
📍 Lembeh Strait, April 2026
🇮🇩 North Sulawesi, Indonesia

The Ambon Scorpionfish (Pteroidichthys amboinensis) is one of the ocean's most impressive masters of camouflage. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific on sandy, muddy, and algae-covered bottoms, this unusual scorpionfish uses its frilly skin, mottled colors, and leaf-like appearance to blend seamlessly into detritus on the seafloor. Rather than chasing its prey, it relies on ambush tactics, remaining perfectly still until an unsuspecting fish or crustacean wanders within striking distance. Despite its cryptic appearance, the Ambon Scorpionfish is a favorite photo subject in Lembeh thanks to its distinctive shape and remarkable ability to disappear into its surroundings.

Sony A1, Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 Macro GM, Nauticam MFO-1, Retra Pro Max II strobes with Ultralight Camera Solutions clamps and arms.

05/15/2026

📷 Pink Eye Goby (Bryaninops natans)
📍 Lembeh Strait, April 2026
🇮🇩 North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tiny, translucent, and easy to miss, the Pink Eye Goby (Bryaninops natans) spends its life hovering among Acropora corals in shallow waters on Indo-Pacific reefs. They like to occasionally pause their quick, darting movements to sit on the tips of the coral branches, making a nice pose for a photo. This image was created in the shallows at Pintu Colada.

Sony A1, Sony FE 100mm f/2.8 Macro GM, Nauticam MFO-1, Retra Pro Max II strobes with Ultralight Camera Solutions clamps and arms.

05/11/2026

•Made with Retra Flash•

This post is part of a series of images by photographers that were awarded on the UPY 2026 and are made with the Retra Flash. Congratulations to all!

Bryan H. Blauvelt's highly commended 'Chromatic Reef' frames a delicate pink and peach sea fan against the deep blue waters of Fiji's Vatu-i-Ra Conservation Park.

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