Gabriel Jensen

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Underwater Photonaturalist, Guide, & Critter Spotter sharing the weird & colorful life found in Florida’s urban waterways. Shallowseasgallery.com

A semi transparent larval anglerfish in its biological bubble. Its main body retains a pink hue and while two bright orange barbles hang from its chin. Tiny versions of the distinctive anglerfish teeth are visible in its mouth.
A collage of various colorful sea slugs
A rainbow tripod fish looks directly at the viewer with large green, blue, yellow, and purple fins that radiate in almost a complete circle from its body. The fin ray tips end in purple tips.
Three views of a red and purple larval blanket octopus. It has little bubbles on its arms and sticks two little arms in front like superman
A close-up of several colorful Christmas tree worms, showing their symmetrical spiral feeding crowns in orange, purple, and blue hues, radiating like fireworks across the reef.
An artistic photograph of an orange longsnout seahorse, the background has red streaks and it it hiding among the hydroids.
A side profile of a bearded fireworm, its eyes and long mouth are visible with orange skin with white spots, and the stinging bristles throughout
An image of a blue and yellow larval tube anemone with the text “Hey Baby, I’d settle down with you harder than an anemone larva on a prime piece of substrate”
Valentine’s Day card featuring a yellow and blue nudibranch and the words “Hey girl, are you a nudibranch? Because you’re outrageously colorful, kind of toxic, and I can’t stop staring at you. Happy Valentine’s Day!”
A yellow and blue nudibranch crawls towards the viewer on a bed of algea. It’s two blue rhinophores look like bunny ears.
A translucent dragonfish larvae squirms and looks at the camera with a goofy smiley face in inky dark night time. There are pink dots that run the length of its body.
A blue, silver, and black man o war fish swims in the pink and blue stinging tentacles of a Portuguese man o war. Image taken at night, the fish is reflected on the mirror like surface.
A seahorse looks at the viewer with a grumpy face. Fleshy cirri are visible on its head and back
A doctorfish seemingly smiles at the camera while getting swallowed by a lizardfish. The lizardfish has sharp needle like teeth but the doctorfish doesn’t seem to care.
A jelly like siphonophore has dozens of siphons like bells placed over a mess of fine jelly tentacles on a black background.
At night, a diver looks on from the background as an orange, red, and white mottled sea slug crawls along sand and gravel.
Granger here loved seeing this polka dot batfish. An orange triangular batfish swims on a rubble bottom with a scuba diver looking on from behind.
The side profile of a seahorse on a white background. Its fleshy cirri function as camouflage in the seagrass.
A closeup of a manatee taking a breath at the waters surface with its reflection looking back at it. The image is flipped 180 degrees to emphasize the reflection. The manatees big tooth is visible through its floppy lips
A mullet fish swims directly in front of a manatees face, making the fish eye appear to be the manatees eye. A scar on the manatees head makes the fish eye look like an angry eye
A bright orange colony of anemone-like cup coral extend their tentacles like fireworks on a white background
A semi transparent pelagic snail flaps its wing like appendages to stay afloat in the plankton cloud. On one side you can see two googly eyes and a pinkish swirling shell.
Plocamopherus lucayensis are red orange Nudibranchs that have heads that look like sock puppets and purple beards. They are plentiful on the feather bryozoans all over the bridge.
In crystal clear blue water, a manatee lifts its nose to the surface to take a breath of air, seen from below. It’s elephant like front flippers hang down with fingernails visible.
Two brown camouflaged seahorses against a stark white background look back at the viewer with red eyes. Their fleshy fibrous cirri grow from several places blow in the current like a bad toupee.
A polka dot batfish displays a luring behavior with its built in lure, a top down spotlight makes it appear to have a very human “sad clown face” with an orange nose and big red frowny lips.
On a white urchins with purple and pick spines, a while and brown camouflaged Squat urchin shrimp blends in with a spine, while a bright yellow and blue bumblebee shrimp crawls close by.
Two bug like amphipods rest on either side of a cylindrical shaped radiolarian colony. The colony appears to be a series of 8 polka dot yellow spheres smushed into a line surrounded by a halo of blue dots representing a mucus layer.
A small white and purple pelagic mollusk with wings attached to a round cloud of white specks on a black background.
A yellowline arrow crab poses in front of a long spine urchin. It’s long rostrum blends into the urchins spines.
In this case, the lizardfish grapples with a challengingly-large doctorfish, its eyes perhaps larger than its mouth. The comically calm doctorfish steals the limelight, displaying a remarkable defense mechanism, with splayed pectoral and dorsal spines. As the lizardfish struggled for a few minutes, the doctorfish was eventually able to escape.
A pair of bioluminescent Phylliroe Nudibranchs swims with fish light bodies in the dark ocean waters of the Gulf Stream over hundreds of feet of depth. Each slug has two long tentacles that come from the front they use for steering.
A 3mm long Ercolania fuscata crawls on a bright green piece of bubble algae. The slug is dark witch a white patch near its head and rhinophores.
A white Coryphella verta nudibranch with bright red cerata on its back looks directly at the camera over a green bubble background
A composite image on a black background featuring various planktonic organisms. These include bioluminescent fish, octopus, crabs, jellyfish, mollusks, nudibranchs, veligers, anemones, scalps, fish, and Zoae larvae.
A red, white, and purple sea slug faces the viewer over a green background, the ridges on its rhinophores are visible.
A neck crab holds its claws out wide. The crab is extensively covered in Yellow Sea sponges. The crab is standing on a pile of shells over a white background.