"Juvenile Lionfish" Type:Fine Art Paper Stretching out their spiny arms

Stretching out their spiny arms

A young California Sea Lion dive-bombs my camera at Santa Barbara Island

Post-production took seven weeks to complete

This 88 megapixel image was captured in 35 individual frames resulting in exceptional resolution

The Garibaldi and Giant Kelp images were scanned on a Howtek D4000 drum scanner and composited in Adobe Photoshop 6

"Juvenile Lionfish" Type:Fine Art Paper Stretching out their spiny armsA two inch long juvenile Lionfish feeds on plankton attracted to my dive light during a night dive on Macro Reef, Yap, Micronesia. Best known for its mantas, Yap is great for macro too. This is undoubtedly my favorite fish portrait yet. The fins of the juveniles are far more graceful than those of the adults. Courtney Platt's first appearance in National Geographic was "Down the Cayman Wall" in 1988. Six NG assignments later, Courtney is still in