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Jonathan ReganA thorny-back cowfish swimming in the middle of Sydney Harbour. He was lucky not to get hit by a Sydney Ferry.
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Julian CohenYellow Seahorse in Sydney Harbour
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Julian CohenStriated Frogfish
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Simon MittagA cuttlefish hunting at our local dive site in Chowder Bay, Sydney, in shallow 5m of water. I converted the photo to black and white, burning the background in Silver Efex Pro for Aperture and Photoshop
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Simon MittagWhite's Seahorse
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Simon MittagBlenny In Coke Can
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Simon MittagStriped Anglerfish
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Simon MittagSquid
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Simon MittagPygmy Leatherjacket
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Simon MittagBluestriped Goatfish
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Simon MittagStingray
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Simon MittagGroove Cheek Goby
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Simon MittagHermit Crab
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Simon MittagUnicorn Sole
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Simon MittagStriped Catfish
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Simon MittagPipefish
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Doug AndersonStriped Pyjama Squid, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonBlack Anglerfish. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour
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Doug AndersonSepia mestus, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonRed Cuttle, Sepia mestus. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour
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Doug AndersonBig-bellied Seahorse. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour
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Doug AndersonBig-bellied Seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour
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Doug AndersonFan-bellied Leatherjacket. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour.
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Doug AndersonBig-bellied Seahorse, Chowder Bay.
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Doug AndersonStriped Anglerfish, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonBrown Sabre-toothed Blenny, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonOctopus tetricus, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonCeratosoma amoenum, Chowder Bay
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Doug AndersonGreen Moray, Chowder Bay
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Chloé Marechalblack and white sea horse. :) Happy new year!
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Doug AndersonSeahorse and snail. Chowder Bay, Sydney Harbour
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Gaetano GargiuloJust a portrait of a proud papa`... Nikon D300s +105/2.8 micro twin YS250pro 1/60 f36 ISO100
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Gaetano Gargiulousing a twin YS250 pro with snoots I achieved the full belack background with a lit subject... lens: tokina 10-17 +kenko 1.4x @14
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Gaetano Gargiulo"Fade to Black"
No weird PS tricks, this guy was hiding between pylons that acted like natural snoots. I left intentionally the scattering on the body of the fish to enhance the fading... hope you like it
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Gaetano Gargiulo"fish" rocket" I guess that this little fellow was trying the kill its reflex in my dome... there was current and the dust lifted really seems the cloud left behind from a rocket to me...:-)
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Gaetano Gargiulo"Fade to black"...
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Gaetano Gargiuloplaying with the wide-angle at night (tokina 10-17 +1.4x kenko pro @11mm)
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Gaetano Gargiulo"under an artificial sun" playing with more than 2 strobes (5 in this case)
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Gaetano Gargiulo"The sun kisses the beautiful..." trying to add the sun-bursts into the macro :-) my sun is a 4th strobe...
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Gaetano Gargiulo"staring at the sun"
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Gaetano Gargiulorocket-squid
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Gaetano Gargiuloshe is very shy and difficult... it took me more than 10 minutes standing still to make her to understand that I was not a predator... her mate is as shy as she..
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Gaetano Gargiulo"waxy" the skin of those sea-horses is like wax
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Gaetano Gargiulo"waiting" and old Italian proverb says: "the patience is the virtue of the strong ones"... if this in true I would not like to have a frog-fish as enemy, I went diving 2 times in 2 different days and I found them exactly in the same position
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Gaetano Gargiulothis guy was getting angry at me and every time I was raising my camera it was raising its tentacles...maybe thought I was a competitor??
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Tracey JenningsGrumpy
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Doug AndersonTiger Pipefish, Chowder Bay
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Kris O'keeffeJuvenille Green Moray Eeel.
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Gaetano GargiuloGhost pipefishes are sometimes stranded by the current descending from the GBR to Sydney. Here they are shot in midwater with a very close aperture to just make their stunning color popping up...
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Gaetano Gargiulo"the dark knight" no PS to achieve the background I used a 3rd strobe to blow the water. shot in Clifton too much south for them how long they will stay around is not known...
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Gaetano Gargiulo... and then she looked at me with big brown eyes and said: "you ain't seen nothing yet..." :D
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Gaetano GargiuloDespite the appearance, the white background is not artificial. The water is so full of small algae that the strobe reflects almost entirely when angled. This shot is with 3 strobes to illuminate the subject too
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Gaetano GargiuloNow I know why they are called white sea-horses... they glow white :D
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Gaetano GargiuloWhaat? they said that ghosts cannot reflect in mirrors... (in reality what looks alike water surface is the high reflecting sand in Chowder bay and they are a pair...)
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Gaetano GargiuloThey rarely swim... but when they do they are awesome...
This fellow simply could not stands the noise of regs and swam away from divers as soon they they approach. it swims back and forth between 2 nearby pylons so I took this shot
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Gaetano GargiuloWhite sea-horse and I mean it :D
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Gaetano GargiuloIs this my best side?? This guy was so still that anemones started to use it as support (look close on its lips)
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Gaetano GargiuloFull angler-moon (2) taken with a reversed 50mm on the top of my 105macro. The vignetting is from the lens (3:1 mg ratio)
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Gaetano Gargiulorare, a swimming frogfish. not-elicited behavior
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Gaetano GargiuloOne for the Xmas tree... taken using the SAGA magic ball
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Gaetano GargiuloCaught swimming between the meshes of the net
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Gaetano GargiuloShe fell for the sea-horse in my dome
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Gaetano GargiuloMeanwhile in the sand of chowder-bay
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Gaetano GargiuloA bit of slug porn :D
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Gaetano GargiuloHey!!!! watch your fins!!!
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Gaetano GargiuloShot with a +10 cropped vertical, the clear background is achieved blasting one strobe on the reflective sand no PS
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Gaetano Gargiulothe queen of the net...
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Gaetano Gargiulostargazer...AKA waiting for the dinner to fall from the sky
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Gaetano Gargiulodiving down
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Gaetano Gargiulopainted velvet fish hidden among kelp
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Conor Culver"Hidden" part of my Underwater Surrealism body of work
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Gaetano Gargiulohe is wearing all of his anemones for the photoshoot
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Gaetano Gargiulosuper tiny, super cute, I used a +7
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Gaetano Gargiulol'elettrico
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Gaetano GargiuloThe genie in the bottle...
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Susan RajskaA mouth brooding fish, showing off his eggs