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A resident Six-banded Angelfish you can reliably find at the SS Yongala on the starboard side, midships in 15-20m. They usually come in pairs.
I find these notoriously difficult to light and compose, mainly because of their dark faces and if they weren’t so pretty I’m sure I would have given up much earlier.
Here [...]

Enough freshwater, here’s the first shot from the actual coral sea :) This was taken at Palm Island, about an hour by boat north-east of Townsville.
Very unusual to find the feather star attached like this in blue water, so great photo opportunity and I also got extremely lucky with the soft coral fans behind [...]

We found this cylon mothership dead tree at the bottom of Crystal Creek in 5m of water. This was our try dive and there weren’t many fish around so I started experimenting and tried to frame it against the surface, using the distortion of the fisheye lens for dramatic effect.
Edited in Aperture and Color Efex [...]

My longest diving break in years is over and yes that feels great! I returned from a trip to Townsville last night, where we got to dive Crystal Creek, Magnetic Island, Palm Island and of course the SS Yongala. The trip was nothing short of spectacular and it was great to catch up with friends [...]

Squid , photographed from above (breaking rule #1 in underwater photography), while testing the camera for leaks just after jumping into the bay. Nevertheless I liked this shot, and once cropped so the subject fits into the frame diagonally it actually works surprisingly well. Note there isn’t even particularly good negative space here, but it [...]

One of my Sydney favourites, Pygmy Leatherjacket , very tiny, almost cute looking fish, which loves the mucky bays in the harbour. This is a stock photo from a while back that I rediscovered and decided to edit. The original was a bit washed out, suffering from low visibility on the day. I post processed [...]

This is a Nudibranch found at Chowder Bay in Sydney, species Variable Aphelodoris . Of all the families in the ocean, these are probably the most diverse, colorful and yet difficult to identify. Imagine several thousand species of colorful little sea slugs, decorated in seriously every pattern and color you could imagine. To give you [...]

Today for a different take on the Sydney or White’s seahorse . I have left in the backscatter on purpose, because it adds to the composition in this instance and turned the photo black and white. If you’re wondering about the species, no they’re not white, they are just named after John White, surgeon general [...]

Another dive in Sydney, another nosy Blue Groper . I would go as far as recommending these for test shots, you can’t shake ‘em, they just keep coming back whatever you do.
Here we have an available light photo, the flash died on this dive at Maroubra, so had to make due with what i could [...]

Long time no post! For those of you who don’t know me, we just had a little baby boy so diving wasn’t high on my priority list in the past few weeks. What I am doing however is finally working on all that stock photography I shot over the past year and still haven’t published [...]

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