
Bowling Ball Beach, just south of Mendocino, CA Bowling Ball Beach is located approximately 30 miles south of Mendocino on the northern California coastline. The beach is characterized by dozens of round “bowling ball” like rocks that are visible and accessible at low tide. Bo...

Magenta slender anthias (Luzonichthys waitei), bigeye jacks and other kinds of fish above a Gorgonian sea fan...

Mushroom leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.) and sunball abstract. Taken in Ashmore Atoll, Australia on December 1, 2009. echeng091201_0243422

Millions of anthias swarm over rebreather diver, Eastern Fields, PNG, originally uploaded by echeng. Millions of magenta slender anthias (Luzonichthys waitei) stream across the reef in strong current. Underwater photographer Tony Wu, on rebreather, is in the middle of it all...

Skeleton shrimp on a sea fan, Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea, originally uploaded by echeng. A skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp.) on a Gorgonian. There were tens of thousands — or more — of these guys on this particular gorgonian. Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea. ec...

I slept 12 hours last night and woke up to a calm day overlooking a mangrove forest in Papua New Guinea...

Real-time RGB histogram in Live View on a Canon 5D Mark II Photographer Tony Wu and I have been enjoying shooting underwater video using our Canon 5D Mark II digital SLRs...

The pump is the path to a manly camera, originally uploaded by echeng. The thing in the middle belongs to underwater photographer Tony Wu.

Topside view of Carl’s Ultimate, Eastern Fields, Papua New Guinea, originally uploaded by echeng. Carl’s Ultimate dive site isn’t much to look at from above the surface of the water. There is no land here, which means that it can be difficult to hide from rough weather. Car...

Eric Cheng with a Canon 1D Mark IV prototype I was able to handle a Canon 1D Mark IV body while I was at DEMA (but wasn’t allowed to take files from it). We took some photos at ISO 25,600 (using the new image-stabilized 100mm macro lens), and it was crazy clean! ...

Lightroom vs Aperture: I’ve been using Apple’s Aperture for over three years and use it to manage nearly 180,000 images. Today, I am switching to Lightroom. I really like Aperture’s interface. When...

Sperm whale with giant squid in mouth, echeng091014_0238869_c Close-up of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with the carcass of a giant squid in her mouth...

Update 1: October 11, 2009 We arrived in the Ogasawara Islands two days ago after enduring a typhoon in Toyko and an arduous 25.5-hour ferry ride. Ogasawara is 1000km due south of Tokyo and sits, isolated, at approximately the same latitude as Okinawa...

A gallery of images from Chichijima (the island we stayed on in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan) and of Wetpixel sperm whale expedition members, October 8-18, 2009. This gallery supplements my trip report...





















