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JAY CLUE

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Welcome to the digital home of Baja California Sur based underwater photographer Jay Clue. We’re currently in the process of rolling out the new website. Over the next few weeks we’ll be launching an online shop to purchase prints, a new travel & photography blog, as well as a project section to keep up to date with Jay’s ongoing projects and how you can get involved. In the meantime have a look around a feel free to give us a shout with any questions.

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May 24

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Exploring other worlds in California. Astrophotography is quickly becoming my new favorite hobby when I’m not underwater. I love the serene and humbling feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere in the quiet of night under millions of stars. It reminds you how small we humans really are on the grand scale of the universe and how our lives are such a very short spark in in the immense galactic history books.

About the photo- Shot on the @sonyalpha Alpha 1 using the Sony 16-35mm GM lens and @hoyafilterusa Starscape filter. This is a 10 shot stack shot at 35mm, f2.8, 10 seconds, and 6400 ISO while using @goalzero low level lighting.

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May 9

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Waking up Monday morning like…. 🥱

What are you looking forward to this week? I’m stoked to be going to California to shoot the ancient bristlecone forest and then off to the Long Beach Scuba Show next weekend! If you’re in the area def come by and say hello! I’ll be at the Dive Ninja booth 307! Look forward to meeting more of you awesome ninjas!

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May 4

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Imagine being in crystal clear blue water surrounded by 8+ oceanic white tip sharks. Then finishing the day under some of the darkest star filled skies you’ve ever seen. So dark that the Milky Way looks fake because it’s glowing so bright. This past week was like a dream! I’ve been trying to shoot oceanics for the past couple year but things kept getting in the way. This trip almost looked like it wasn’t going to happen when the weather took a turn and high winds kicked up causing us to have to postpone our project for a week. But in the end we were finally able to get out and… WOW! It was incredible! Cat Island might just be my new favorite place on earth. I can’t wait to get home and sort through all the footage and photos, but in the meantime here’s a little teaser of what’s to come!

And for all those asking, YES! @diveninjas will be be running special trips there next season so give them a shout to get on the waiting list. Plus, me and my buddy @stanmoniz have decided to run one of our Above and Below photo workshops there too! More info coming soon! Shoot a DM to be the first to know when the info drops!

Shot on the @sonyalpha A1 using the Sony 16-35mm F4 in a @nauticamhousings

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Apr 22

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Planet Earth. ‘That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives here. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam… The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves… Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.’
— Carl Sagan

Happy Earth Day 🌎

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Apr 19

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This weekend just after dawn we encountered a school of mobula rays that tracked over 3 miles long on GPS (almost 5kms). It is one of the largest schools we have on record to date. The slapping sounds of thousands of these Munk’s Devil Rays echoed across the ocean from all directions and made you feel like you were inside a giant popcorn factory with the never ending pop, pop, pop sounds for 2.5 hours. Every direction we looked you could see rays leaping from the water almost all the way out to the horizon. It was mind blowing, yet so serene and beautiful.

Every year tens of thousands of these acrobatic mobula rays aggregate around the coasts of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Seeing thousands of them take flight above the waves or watching them peacefully glide through the water below the surface is unlike anything else on earth.

Shot in the @sonyalpha A1 using a Sony 100-400mm GM lens.

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Apr 11

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Let’s kick off the week with a little shark game! Who can guess the species of this shark? Will give you 1 hint! It was spotted at a cleaning station on San Benedicto Island, Mexico in the eastern pacific.

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Apr 9

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Researchers say mantas are the most intelligent fish on our planet. They have massive brains, can recognize themselves in mirrors, and have even created ways of essentially using tools to help them feed. After 2 years of not visiting Socorro I was unexpectedly greeted by 2 familiar faces this trip. A few mantas I’ve spent time photographing on past trips seemed to swim directly up to me, then proceed to unroll their cephalic fins as they glided motionless eye to eye only a few feet away. Almost as if they were saying hello to an old friend. It makes you wonder, was this just a rare coincidence my human brain is trying to turn into something it wasn’t, or could it be something more?

Big shout out to @pacificmantaresearchgroup for all their hard work with these incredible creatures.
Shot on the @sonyalpha Alpha 1 using a Sony 16-35mm lens in a @nauticamhousings thanks to @backscattervideophoto

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Mar 28

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Looking out into the blue from within the Secret Cave at Wolf Island. Being inside this massive sea cave located in the Galapagos Archipelago feels like you are inside a forgotten sunken cathedral. The sun’s rays dance down from the surface as the waves above crash against the cliffs. Inside you find resting sea turtles, white tip sharks, and schools of fish using it as a sanctuary from predators and the unforgiving nature that can lie outside its walls. While playful sea lions and fur seals have turned its short passageways into an underground playground.

🧜‍♀️ : @dangwanders
Shot on the @sonyalpha Alpha 1 using the Sony 16-35mm F4 lens all protected in a @nauticamhousings

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