Manta Ray photo taken by Dr Sam Lam in Kona, Hawaii
This photo was taken in the evening using a wide angle lens and 100 speed film. The manta rays there were simply gorgeous creatures that came around the harbor to feed on plankton. I remember holding a light on my head and I would see this huge twenty foot wing span creature come and glide right above my head brushing my hair to digest the plankton illuminated and gathered by my light. As they are not meat eaters, I was not afraid but instead I was mesmerized. This was one of my many live-aboard trips that I took in my twenties for diving.
Dr. Lam is a PADI certified divemaster and has dived around the world. He is also an accomplished underwater photographer and has had his photographs published in the Miami Herald. All photographs were taken with a housed Nikon N90s.