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Photo Archive: April, 2010

A Black Reef Leatherjacket hovering in midwater. I often see these in pairs, and a quick look into Australian Marine Life, Graham Edgar confirms they “cohabitat”. The white/yellow eye makes them easy to identify and they are moderately common in Sydney’s blue water dive sites. Photographically they are nice because of the color contrast [...]

What do you do with the three minutes at 5m? Good question. Well you can practice your hover for example if you’re in blue water, or you can try aiming a wide-angle lens at Comb Jellyfish in passing.
Here I actually tried in 9 point manual focus mode. For the less photographically inclined, this [...]

Today I’ve got a quick follow up to the Weedy Seadragon which I shot from the hip, but kinda liked.
He is actually trying to hide from the camera here after I took the first two photos, so I gave him some space and then returned a little later. I like how he disappears [...]

Got lucky on Sunday! Added another Weedy Seadragon willing to pose to the collection, good visibility, sun, and a boat with only 4 divers. Yes, sir!
Weedy Seadragons are kinda difficult to shoot because of their unusual form. Here I’m using the Tokina 10-17mm for close focus wide angle and for that You really want [...]

Autumn weather is coming to Sydney slowly but surely. The waters are getting cooler and calmer and hopefully the visibility will get better again soon. This weekend, the drysuit is coming out of summer retirement for shooting and I’m going for wide-angle again.
This is the last photo from the previous weekend with the snoots on, [...]

As promised last week, here’s another shot taken with my new wide-angle snoot. Since I’ve clocked only one dive with these so far, consider this an experiment, which is exactly what happened with the Biscuit Star .
Subject wise, this is almost ideal to try out the snoot. The starfish is sitting on an exposed [...]

After a couple of weeks of night diving from shore only, I finally caved and booked a daytrip on board the Hoochie Mumma. It was also time to dust off Wall-E, install the Tokina 10-17mm wide-angle and test my recently assembled DIY snoot in blue water. The snoot is my latest pet project and I [...]

Gloomy Octopus is the most commonly found species of the Octopus family in and around Sydney. They love the muck and the opportunities for hiding in there. I have witnessed them buried in a hole, holding on to a loose leaf of seaweed with their suction disks to camouflage the entrance.
Photographically, they [...]

I love it when I find something new at my local dive site and I’ve never seen a catfish in the muck before. Irene and me fiddled with the identification for a little while before we agreed on the Striped Catfish . They are only 20cm long and blend in well into the surroundings, in [...]

A Blue Swimmer Crab walking across the seabed at night in Chowder Bay. While these are excellent swimmers as the name suggests, they are not pelagic and the females like to come to sandy bays to seek shelter and release their eggs.
I have a suspicion the many fishermen we see on our [...]

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