Turtle and sponge

chokka/squid laying her eggs

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'JUVENILE' Sweet lips youngster. You don't often see them this young - very unique colour scheme. Housed Nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjly!

(Resized image) Taken whilst snorkelling with whale sharks in the seychelles. I swam with this beautiful creature for about 30 minutes

Turtle in the mix.

squid mating and cavorting on the annual "chokka run" off the east coast of southern africa in St Francis Bay. taken nikon F100 with 16 mm fisheye

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'WIRE' Another of those astounding abstracts of symmetry offerd to us by Ma Nature within her coral kindoms. Wire coral. Housed Nikon F; 55mm auto-micro Nikkor lens. Enjoy!

two male loggerhead turtles met and did NOT like each other. no they are not mating!

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Big cleaning action from one of my favourite (and secret) dive sites! Olympus 5050, single Inon 220s strobe

Damsel in Distress. This Damsel was guarding eggs on a seawhip. Which kept him in my lens' face for several portrait attempts. D2x 105mm

Chromodoris coi nudibrach laying egg spriral on Ningaloo Reef. Canon 20D, Canon 60mm macro, Woody's, single Inon 220s strobe.

the underbelly of beauty and power, a bull shark with remoras in south africa

a bull shark patrols- beauty in motion. taken in Umkomaas just south of Durban, South Africa

Took a while to get my port right up to this little guy & to get the lighting right, but it was worth it! Canon 20D, 60mm macro, single Inon 220s strobe.

shadows of lion fish on a wall - something a bit more abstract.

Pair of raccoon butterflyfish. Canon 20D, Canon 60mm macro, single Inon 220s strobe.

Rankin Cod with Cleaner. D2x 105mm

Unicorn fish taken during Shark Bonanza using direct flash and colour corrected in adobe photoshop

Leopard blennies have eye-crossing camouflage that helps them blend with their corals and they are terribly skittish. I've had trouble getting just one and so was very happy to get this pair on my recent trip to Cocos Keeling Island (Australia).

fun with dolphins
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Pink Paper Fish taken on Reef at Sodwana Bay with Olympus camera.

bass and video camera take each other in- sodwana bay OCtober 2006. D200 with 10.5 fisheye f.2.8 lens
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a movie star in the making- our potato bass are just soooo vain! D200 in sea and sea housing.

Ribbon Eel