Hooded Nudibranchs, Melibe leonina clinging to bull kelp

Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canada, 2006
The calm waters of Hussar Bay, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, are a common area to find Hooded Nudibranchs, which congregate there to mate. Using a wide-angle lens behind a dome port, I closed in on the sea slugs and aimed my camera upward, giving a “close focus wide angle” perspective, that allowed the camera to capture the feeding behavior and the environment, telling the whole story in a single shot. The nudibranchs use their expandable, fringed "hood" to scoop or rake small crustaceans towards their mouth.
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