This is a creative image that I produced in Photoshop. The original shot is an undulating eel off Maui, and I photographed a cigar, creating the smoke and news article in Photoshop.
Shortlisted!

Hawaiian Monk seal bending around the sun.

The manta rays just swim right up to you, especially if you pretend to ignore them.
Shortlisted!

Looking up from the shipweack "Mahi" on Oahu's West side.

Tasmanian Chromodoris - on a Sydney Shore dive

A small white plumose at 30fsw nicely illuminated from the surface. Despite my failed "on" focus light, this one turned out thanks to Adobe lightroom . It's moments like this that I love cold water
Canon g9, 400 asa, single nikonos 105

Good friend from Bay Play photographing male weedy seadragon off Portsea beach.
Happy (belated) New year!! May 2012 be a wonderful year for everyone!!

Blue Dragon

Cowrie with mantle out in Three room cave, Kona Coast

Creatures of the deep battle over a tasty soft coral.
Basket star in the background, Orange peel Nudibranch in the foreground, both dinning on a soft coral.
Canon g9, Nikonos strobe, 70 ft. Poriler Pass, the Salish Sea

Eastern Cleaner Clingfish, size 2 to 3 cm, on a Sydney Shoredive

Magic number - A mother Humpback, her new born calf and an escorting male turn in unison approaching the lens. A heart pounding moment on a day when the curiosity of these whales was exposed with great natural light and superb visibility. Ha'apai.

White Shark at Isle De Guadalupe Sept 2011

Through to 2011 awards final round judging

Juvenile Frogfish

My first time diving with the Great White Sharks. The cage was 35 feet below the surface. My camera was a Intova IC 12 with a wide angle lens

The fish gather under the boat, the sun is low on the horizon as another day of diving comes to an end. Aloha to 2011.

Eye to eye with a manta ray. Photo taken in the Archipelago Revillagigedos by San Benedicto Island on a dive site called the Boiler. It was taken with a Canon T3i in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite DS-125 strobe.

Red on Red. A juvenile sandperch on fire urchin. Galapagos Islands.

Swimming Anemone, just chillin in the Salish Sea
Canon G9, Nikonos 105

7am at Sandy Beach on the East side of Oahu, Hawaii. Canon camera, 18mm lens, Liquideye waterhousing. The girl on the beach was the only person in the water and she was catching some wild rides. In the image you can see her watching me get barreled!

This close encounter with a manta ray took place in the Archipelago Revillagigedos by San Benedicto Island on a dive site called the Boiler. It was taken with a Canon T3i in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite DS-125 strobe.

Happy Turtle West Ohau

White Shark, Guadalupe Island Sept 2011

On a night dive I found this Parrot fish wrapped in its mucas bubble for the night. The flash didn't wake him either.

Photo of large snail taken at Casino Point, Catalina Island with Olympus 5060 - Ikelite Housing - Single Sea & Sea YS90DX Strobe.

Photo of a Spanish Shawl Nudibranch taken at Casino Point, Catalina Island with: Olympus 5060 - Ikelite Housing - Single Sea & Sea YS90DX Strobe. Nudibranch was on Sue Jac wreck at approx. 80' depth.

Swimming with Hammerheads...