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Pacific Coastline ; Monterey, CAPrints and licensed images do not have protective watermarks. See more about this below.
ECOLOGY
PHOTOGRAPHIC
Pacific Coastline ; Monterey, CAPrints and licensed images do not have protective watermarks. See more about this below.
Monterey and Carmel offer some of the best diving in California, which is in turn easily some of the best diving in the world, bar none. Few other places can boast the immense numbers of marine mammals (esp. pinnipeds) and large fish, as well as abundant kelp forests, with all their colorful inhabitants.
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About the ugly, distracting watermark: I truly do apologize that it is necessary to place this on the images. I hate to disfigure them with watermarks or my name, etc. However, after dozens of episodes of finding my images used without payment (and often without even any credit) on websites across the globe (from Japan to Finland to Italy), as well as numerous domestic infringements, I've found it easier to be proactive in protecting my work rather than spend dozens of hours trying to track down compensation from the image thief. Getting payment from domestic image thieves is not too hard, but it is very difficult to deal with international misappropriation. That is why most of the thumbs on this site cannot be enlarged and there is protective code to stop right-clicks. I wish it wasn't necessary... but unfortunately, it is. Thanks for understanding.