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Surgeonfish guarding shipwreck

Surgeonfish guarding shipwreck

This is a Sohal surgeonfish, a very territorial fish that lives on the tops of reefs and shallow shipwrecks. This was one of many on the wreck of the Kingston i...
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This is a Sohal surgeonfish, a very territorial fish that lives on the tops of reefs and shallow shipwrecks. This was one of many on the wreck of the Kingston in the Egyptian Red Sea. The males have small harems of females which they guard aggressively and this one kept rushing at my camera until I backed off.
This shot was taken using an Olympus OMD EM10 mk2 with 8mm fisheye lens.
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OLYMPUS E-M10MarkII

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Aperture 14/1 ISO 200 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 8/1

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Sep, 2016

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