Photo Archive: February, 2009

Alone In The Dark

Blogged by Simon on February 24, 2009 8:27pm | Last updated by Simon on March 02, 2010 8:09pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Alone In The Dark

When editing all my recent shots from the Barrier Reef in January, I had one left over that I liked and never got to finish. It was taken on a dive at the Cod Hole at Ribbon Reef #10. We were in about 10m of water at the beginning of the dive when this unidentified [...]

Maori Wrasse

Blogged by Simon on February 12, 2009 10:21pm | Last updated by Simon on March 22, 2010 11:11pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Maori Wrasse

This shot is from our weekend dive at Shelly Beach. Surprise, surprise, despite the Sydney Morning Herald’s reports, no blood crazed sharks in sight and we got the Blue Groper from the previous post, some footballers and lots of small fish I have yet to identify instead.
According to Australian Marine Life, Graham Edgar, the species [...]

Blue Groper

Blogged by Simon on February 09, 2009 11:53pm | Last updated by Simon on April 19, 2010 11:28am | Category: Underwater Photography |

Blue Groper

It’s been a while since I bought the excellent Tokina 11-16mm wide angle lens that i have used a fair bit topside in the past year. On Sunday there was finally an opportunity to take it diving, so I assembled camera, housing, dome port and off we went to Shelly Beach, outside North Head. If [...]

Cuttlefish

Blogged by Simon on February 03, 2009 6:18am | Last updated by Simon on March 21, 2010 9:33pm | Category: Underwater Photography |

Cuttlefish

On Sunday, we went to dive Chowder Bay in Sydney Harbour for seahorses (story on that coming up), and amongst other things, found two small cuttlefish  hunting, or better stalking prey, which is what they reportedly do when holding up their top pair of tentacles. I decided to stalk them myself for a while and out [...]