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Weedy sea-dragon under Flinders pier
Flinders pier, Shaw's Cowfish Aracana aurita
ascidian, Banksia Sea Squirt (Sycozoa pulchra)
Lake Eacham, Queensland, Canon 7D, 10-22mm lens, Nimar housing. click here
Looking up at a diver at Lady Elliott Island near Hervey Bay Queensland Australia
Scuttling away from under a test cement plate, signalling stay away . . .a Blue Ringed Octopus
Love these gobies that just pop their head out of holes in and around the Flinders Pier engine block
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Wanted to get a near to front on shot of a Weedy Sea Dragon. After about thirty minutes I managed to get this. The position of the lights hit at just the right angle to highlight the beautiful colours of the body.
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Ningaloo Sunset
"Feeling blue"
A Sweetlip swimming out from the coral....
A school of bump head parrotfish..... Flynn Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Crimson red Waratah Anemones at low tide in a rock pool during a misty halo sunrise, lit with snooted strobes. The bird in the sun halo was more luck than judgement!!
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An over/under of a bluebottle (physalia physalis) I love how the pneumatophore (air bladder) of this bluebottle caught the light from my underwater strobe and lit up like a fluorescent tube!! Amazing!
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Editor's Comment
This is a clear winner, due to the perfect balanced lighting used here, matching the scene and the subject in every aspect. Stunning shot!
"Shark-aerial"
Shot at North rock (Nelson bay, NSW)
Bat Fish circling me while I was doing my safety stop above the exHMAS Brisbane wreck, Mooloolaba, Australia
Green Sea Turtle resting at Cook Island, Fingal Head, NSW, Australia.
Red Claw at Lake Eacham, depth 20m
"Abducted"... the water was cold and full of seals and sea-birds excrement but was fun!!
Vintage Pose. Taken at Lake Barrine, North Queensland. depth 14m vis around 2m.
millions of juvenile fishes. vis was good but swamped by clouds of little juvenile swimming thru the pylons
the months are passing by.. but this guys is always there :-)
my strobe malfunctioned at 20m... so I had to improvise...
diving with seals is always great!!!
6+m of vis at Clifton Gardens are rare...
My nephew diving into the Blue Hole in the Daintree Forest,
playing with shallow DOF with a friendly dragonet
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