"Belly" Grey Nurse Shark

"Jaws Theme" Grey Nurse Shark

nudibranch at night
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The Daily pygmy... this time I had to wait over 50min in the surge before that she got brave enough to get out of the weed...

I stacked two wet lenses to make this portrait of pygmy pipe-horse fish
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Mu mum said I am beautiful!!!

leafy frontal shot

sea dragon sketch

green is the new black!!! I just enhanced the natural color of the water to obtain this green backdrop

Diving in the sun... very murky water and few friendly dragons...

"Natural Colors" just the background is been manipulated (minimally) to remove almost all of the colors and leave it neutral so the dragons stands out in its natural colors

Not much manipulation required. I have uploaded the one with the original water color as well so you can compare. I just used the curve tool on the already burnt sun burst and then dodged a bit the rest of the water around the dragon...

Dance into the light...
The vis dropped to less than 1m during the dive.so I made use of the milky white water to achieve clear background. Minimal PS involved, just the curve tool. Also no fiddling I just waited for the surge to bring it to me!!!

"lost into the blue" the dragon was swimming in the current and pushed by the surge. careful position of myself under the boulders allowed me to take this shot into the blue...
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Vis was bad to start with then deteriorated during the dive to below 1m... but hey I finally got to see the leafy!!! shot taken in the surge

The background is natural. The clear tone is given by the water column and the far away rocks. I waited > 10minutes to take this shot as the little fellow was moving between the weed to hunt small crustaceans
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Pelican by the sea Port Stevens New South Wales

Picture of the camouflaged head of a wobbegong shak
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Again to obtain the white background I used one of the strobes to illuminate the reflective sand. I then completed the job with PS

Purple Dragon Pipeline Pt Stevens NSW

Shark cleaning station at Asho's Gap, Ningaloo Reef.
Visibility was not great and a did switch of the strobe

Goatfish Pipeline Pt Stevens NSW

After my second dive of the day, I snorkeled around the reef a bit before having to go back to the boat. Found this cool rock and coral mound just below the surface. Shot with my Canon 60D, Tamron 10-24mm, and Ikelite housing.

Full Octo-moon This time my reverse ring macro toy did not worked as I expected. But...

Pineapple Fish Little Beach Pt Stevens

Grey reef shark photographed at Osprey Reef in April 2016.

I have been called on assignment: depict the emotion of a shark dive at Manly aquarium, so I wanted to depict the emotion of facing a "friendly" sand tiger shark. This pic is taken diving in the large shark enclosure
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