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These Mado are absolutely everywhere in Sydney Harbour and surroundings, so they’re good predictable schools to work with. This photo is a bit older from a dive at North Head in Sydney, but I remember chasing them in circles with my buddy (in the shot) until this opportunity arose with the sun behind the [...]

Black&White is a recent favourite of mine. More than often i will convert shots to see whether they have good light and end up liking monochrome better than the color version. I used the excellent Silver Efex Pro by Nik Software to modify this photo which is largely pale blue, and used a medium green [...]

Another semi-regular find in Chowder Bay: Pipefish , usually buried in the muck and easier to spot at night than during the day. Camera settings: Nikon D300, 60mm macro, f/29 for 1/125s, ISO 200.
I didn’t like the color and lighting of the background, so I burnt it with a brush, then used the sponge [...]

Old Wife closeup also from recent night dive in Chowder Bay. For those of you who know the site well, this one was shot a little further out, 16m down at the two sunken yachts. I usually wouldn’t take my macro setup down there, but did on this dive which turned out to be [...]

Today something new from Sydney. Eastern Smooth Boxfish photographed at night in Chowder Bay and commonly found inside the harbour.
According to the Australian Museum, “the colouration of the Eastern Smooth Boxfish changes with growth. Tiny juveniles are completely yellow. As the fish ages it develops brown spots”, so this one is probably in his [...]

An older Sydney shot of a starfish , I rediscovered on my hard drive today. For some reason this fell through the cracks earlier on. The green and orange play nicely together and yes, they are real colors.
Nikon D300, Tokina 10-17mm, f/8 for 1/200s in manual mode. Ajusted for levels, saturation and crop.

This image is an overlay of two shots and as such not a “real” underwater photo, which is a first for me. I photographed the background on a dive at Magic Point, Sydney last Sunday and used a stock photo of an unidentified Jellyfish to overlay it with.
The background photo is pretty much left [...]

Sunday turned out to be an excellent dive day at Magic Point. I was out there to shoot an assignment and finally got the Grey Nurse Sharks that I had been hunting for the last year on camera. There are only an estimated 200-300 of these animals left in Australia, and they are protected [...]

At first I thought this may be a shark egg, but Irene confirms it is indeed a snail . There is probably a good reason I’m not a marine biologist!
I photographed this a while back at Chowder Bay, and it has been collecting virtual dust on my hard drive since then. I desaturated this [...]

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 [...]

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