Getting the shot - Jawfish with eggs

Tony Land · Issue 127, Jul/Aug 2022 · pp. 42–46

Products mentioned: Canon R6, Nauticam EMWL, Sea & Sea YS-250, Inon Z330

I’ve been shooting underwater photographs as a hobby for the better part of 15 years. In all of that time, I’ve had the luxury of living in a diving hotspot - either South Florida, or Grand Cayman. In both locations, world-class diving was just minutes from my home year round. One of the photographs that had eluded me for all of these years though, was that of a male Yellow- Headed Jawfish incubating eggs in his mouth. When I finally managed to get a shot of one, it was July 2021. In the months since then however, I’ve seemed to run into these little expectant fathers everywhere, and I realized that they had probably been around me all along - I just didn’t know what to look for or how to capture the moment. Soon after posting my first one on social media, I received a lot of messages asking for tips on how I was able to get this shot. So rather than explain it over and over, I decided t…