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Karen May 🤿📸

@crittermad.bsky.social
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Retired primary care pharmacist, owned by 3 cats, Geordie living in Wales, Scuba Diver, Amateur Underwater Photographer trying to get to grips with topside, #OM1 wildlife friendly gardener,

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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Playing with coloured lights and a vortex lens - whilst 2 nudibranchs create the next generation- a bit of a different style for me! - Bali 🤿🌊🦑 #underwaterphotography #OM1
Two sea slugs mating, lit by blue and pink light, a vortex lens makes the colours swirl around them
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Shaun the sheep nudibranch, this cute ~3mm sap sucking slug lives on green algae in the Lembeh Strait #OM1 🦑🌊
Shaun the sheep nudibranch is a tiny green sea slug with purple tipped protrusions on its back, it has two black tipped antennae and black eye spots - it resembles the Shaun the sheep cartoon character
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sunlit goatfish Gota Abu Ramada Egypt 🦑🌊🤿
Two dive boats are moored next to each other in the midday Egyptian sun, causing sunbeams to cascade between them. A school of goatfish shelter in the shade below
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
World Oceans Day #marinelife #photography #underwaterphotography #OM1 🦑🌊 Manta on a Maldivian cleaning station
A manta ray slows down over a cleaning station to allow butterfly fish to pick off parasites and dead skin. He is surrounded by a school of fusilier fish. Maldives
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A dreamy puffin living in the campion on beautiful Skomer Island #OM1
photograph of a puffin in a field of white campion flowers which are blurred due to the shallow depth of field
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Sedge warbler - not underwater! Skomer Island, Wales #om1 #omsystem
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Clown fish, Maldives #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A clownfish hides within a balled up anemone with its bright purple skirt visible at the edges
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Whale shark off the back of Maldivian dive boat 🦑🌊🤿
Whale shark hoovering up plankton at the surface under the lights at the back of a dive boat in the Maldives
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A male cardinal fish mouth broods eggs at the barge dive site, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A brown and yellow striped fish in the Red Sea - within his open mouth you can see hundreds of silver eggs which he mouth broods.
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A large cabbage coral cloaked in orange Anthias at Satellite Reef off Shark & Yolanda, Red Sea #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Three yellow cabbage corals like an underwater bouquet are cloaked in a school of orange anthia fish as a diver looks on
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I had one landing with eels but not ‘in flight’ - they fly really fast! This was Skomer last June
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A long nose hawkish hides him selves in a coral bush, Maldives 🌊🦑#Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
A small fish with a red and white checked body and a pointy nose is hidden in the fronds of a golden coral bush
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Synchronised shoals in Raja Ampat #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide 🌊🦑
A school of blue striped snapper (yellow fish) sweep right to left above a coral garden. Behind them a school of blue fusiliers sweep left to right
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Peek-a-boo! A blennie from Curacao #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide #divesky #marinelife
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Red Sea Reefs - Shark & Yolanda Reef, Ras Mohammed Egypt #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide #marinelife
Vibrant colours of soft corals on a Red Sea reef (pinks, purple, red)
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This was a discarded bottle lying on the seabed in Lembeh Straits Indonesia- two tiny yellow gobies have made their home inside the neck where they are protected from predators #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
Two tiny yellow gobies living in a bottle discarded on the sea floor, Lembeh Straits Indonesia
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Throwback to Red Sea 2022. Marsa Shagra House Reef. A lionfish hunting at dusk #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #em10iii #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
An underwater scene, the sun is low in the sky giving the water an eerie green glow. A lionfish hunts for its supper amongst the coral, a sunburst above his head
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Nom Nom. A damsell in distress. A lizardfish eats a damselfish whole, Lembeh Straits, Indonesia #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt #marinelife
A lizardfish with a damselfish in its mouth
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Batu Rufus Raja Ampat #underwaterphotography #scuba #scubadiving #marinelife #underwater #diving #OMSYSTEM #om1 #omsystemom1 #uwphotography #uwphotographer #retrauwt
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This is Lou Lou. She looks like a little angel but don’t be fooled. She’s just whacked her older brother just because she can! She’s torbie - so tabby markings with all the tortie attitude! #cats #adoptdontshop #rescuecat
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Please!
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Manta night dive - Maldives. A bright light is shone off the back of the boat at night to bring plankton in, which brings the mantas, and a whale shark - these are barrel feeding #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
2 manta rays barrel feeding at night Whale shark at back of boat
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Lucky to ‘bump’ into this gang of Bumphead Parrotfish in Raja Ampat - they are so characterful, the big ones slow and steady and definitely in charge, the little ones zipping around #Underwaterphotography #omsystem #om1 #retrauwt #dive #scuba #underwater #underwaterphoto #ocean #divephotoguide
School of bumphead parrotfish
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The stunning reefs of Raja Ampat 🤿 #UnderwaterPhotography #Scuba #wildlifephotography #uwphotographer #uwpics #underwater #ocean # scubadiving #ScubaDiving #Underwater #Diving #olympusom1 #retrauwt
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Karen May 🤿📸 @crittermad.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
My first post 👋 to say Hi! Transitioning from the dark site. Any photog (esp underwater) recommendations? #OMSystems
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