This is one of those sights that you see all the time underwater, and pass on by. There's nothing unusual going on here, just part of a brittle starfish clinging to the trunk of a large Gorgonian fan. This picture reminds me to stop and look at the commonplace. The fan is a dirty brown color in the 40 feet of water where I made this picture, since the water diffracts blue light, but the flash shows how intense the color is.

Nikon F4, 105mm Macro lens, Aquatica Housing, 2 Ikelite AI/n strobes, f/16, Kodak Ektar 100.

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