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This is a photo I originally really liked but never published – it involved a bit of work with Aperture’s dodge and burn to help it over the line.
I found this Variegated Lizardfish at 20m depth in Wakatobi, sitting almost upright in the water. Unfortunately the surrounding rock formation made it difficult to approach [...]

A while back in November, I posted a similar shot on one of these cleaner shrimp , but I just couldn’t help repeating myself with this follow-up version, where the subject stands out much better. The dive site and story are the same as in the old post, so I’m just going to stick with [...]

What do you do when you’ve got your 105mm macro lens on and there are no fish in sight? You shoot coral surface structures – never ending variations of color, texture and form. These are called bubble coral , but they almost look like inverse thumb prints or finger digits to me (or maggots).
This photo [...]

Here we have a small bommie at Fan 38 East in Wakatobi, standing out nicely against the blue backdrop. I always try to look for these when diving, anything rising up high enough to be able to hover in about half it’s height is great. In this instance I shot wide angle with the Nikon [...]

Meet one of natures great imitations – the Bluestriped Fangblenny , which, when juvenile, looks very similar to, and exploits a niche in the ecosystem by mimicking the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse .
Cleaner wrasses are a symbiotic lifeform. They feed on larger fish, picking dead scales and parasites off their bodies. This will be recognized by the [...]

An unidentified ball of fish found in the shallows at Table Coral City, Wakatobi. I had previously posted about this dive and the hunting trumpetfish that are part of it (some of which can be seen in the background). To say there are plenty of fish here, is an understatement, their numbers were in the [...]

To be very honest with you – I don’t consider myself a routined or seasoned underwater photographer. Almost every dive something happens that changes the plan. I get easily confused or distracted, I use the entirely wrong camera settings or I’m just too late adjusting things and the fish have gone elsewhere. It happens alot [...]

It’s been a month since we’re back from Wakatobi and I have finally sighted much of the raw material. It may sound like the bleeding obvious, but one thing I learned on this trip is that most of the good shots have been taken in 8m or shallower. Towards the end of the second week [...]

Another soft coral shot from Wakatobi. Here I got lucky with the schooling Butterflies  which are adding to the photo by swimming around the Gorgonian. In real life they actually swam downwards and I was photographing this towards the surface in portrait mode, making this shot a good example that you don’t need to be [...]

Talk about a lucky find – the Painted Frogfish appears to be as rare as it is weird. According to our divemaster Ben at Wakatobi, they haven’t seen any for months, so I was thrilled to get this little guy in front of my lens.
Frogfish, or Anglerfish as they are called in Australia, are [...]

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