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Underwater Animals – Photographs that Amaze and Inspire

It is a surprising fact, but people say that we know about the Mars surface more than we know about the depths of the oceans on Planet Earth… Isn’t it astonishing and mysteriously interesting to know that today, when human race has already peeped into the microcosm of tiniest atoms and sent its spacecrafts to the far away planets in the space, the global ocean, located right here on Earth, still has many unexplored regions beneath its surface, where unbelievable creatures exist. This photo gallery of underwater animals opens a whole new world of underwater life and mystery. Cruzine magazine offers you to take this virtual tour and get familiar with some really interesting creatures, with which we share the Earth but do not share their unique living environment.

Underwater animals and the entire ocean represent a unique world with its specific forms, colors, shades, structures and behaviors. Maybe, it is this difference and uniqueness, which inspires photographers to take pictures of underwater life. Indeed, sometimes underwater world offers really incredible subjects for photography, which agitate imagination and remind us about the peerless creativity of the Nature and perfection of the world, we live in. Of course, taking underwater pictures requires specific technical resources and techniques to make high quality pictures of underwater animals. Besides, this specific field of photography art demands exceptional skills and expertise from a photographer himself, who should be expert not only in taking photographs, but in diving as well. So, below we have collected some prominent photographs of underwater animals just to give you a short glimpse to the life beneath the water surface, its variety, coloring, and extraordinary beauty.

Too Close by Oren Cohen

Shark

Sleeper by Shingo Uchiyama

Octopus

Spaceship by Alexander Semenov

Comb jelly

Lion’s Mane by Alexander Semenov

Lion's Mane

Start Up by Norbert Probst

Start Up

Start Up by Fashteam

Start Up

Surrounded by Norbert Probst

Huge shoal (Caranx sexfasciatus)

Travelers by Norbert Probst

Hundreds of hammerheads

Bend by Andrey Narchuk

Sea turtle

Eyeliner by Norbert Probst

Hieroglypyc Hawkfish (Cirrhitus rivulatus)

catch me if you can… by Akterf

catch me if you can... Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus)

Jelly Fish Extravaganza ! by Mohammad Alkhamis

Jelly Fish

Hello by Mikael Jigmo

Clown fish

Amphiprion ocellaris by Pedro GoniO

Amphiprion ocellaris, Clown fish

Aggressive by Akterf

aggressive, Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus)

Angry… by Akterf

Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus)

Clownfish by Shahaira de Cuba

Clownfish

Flying by Mikael Jigmo

Flying, sea turtle

Whale Shark by Lars Grepstad

Whale Shark

Hammerhead by Marcus Lim

Hammerhead

Tentacles by Jesper Larsen

Tentacles

Sealion by Marcus Lim

Sealion

Sting Rays by Ian Newman Goddard

Sting Rays

Hello Mr.Fugu by Lothar Adamczyk

Hello Mr.Fugu

Smoke by Emilie Chen

Crystal jellies

Strange yellow fella by SenorMentira

Strange yellow fella

Beluga Whale by Tony García

Beluga Whale

Star Fish by Brian & Celia Bussey

Star Fish

Octopus by CanisLoopus

Octopus

Jacks by Stefan Beskow

Jacks

On silent Wings by Norbert Probst

Manta Ray (Manta hamiltoni)

Sea jewels by Andrey Narchuk

Squid

The Great Barracuda by Shahaira de Cuba

The Great Barracuda

Clown fish by Pedro GoniO

Clown fish

Living lava lamp by John Bleidorn

living lava lamp

Flip of a Humpback Whale by Mikael Jigmo

Flip of a Humpback Whale

Barbed Skate by Lars Grepstad

Barbed Skate

Paparazzi by Marcus Lim

Paparazzi, Whale Shark

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Pavol Janovicek
Pavol Janovicek

With 30 years of life experience behind my shoulders, today I find myself focused mainly around two core values: my family (I am a happy husband and a proud father) and IT in its broadest meaning, including but not limited to hardware and software techniques and innovations. My special interest and true passion is photography. Here I am ready to put my signature under each word, once said by Dorothea Lange: “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Being a part of Cruzine team, I enjoy instant process of learning as well as sharing my own experience in photography and IT with the readers of this digital magazine.

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