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Schooling Bigeye Snapper I chased over the fallen mast midships at the SS Yongala. You gotta love the yellow tone contrasting with the blue backdrop. These guys are easier to photograph than silvery bodied fish because they don’t reflect as much flashlight, so less of a challenge when positioning your strobes.
I went in [...]

My SS Yongala photos from the last trip are slowly but surely coming to an end – time to go back and shoot some more I suppose :)
This was shot upwards from the stern, where the trevally roam. I have to admit i failed at getting good schooling photos though i tried a [...]

Okay this is further down almost at the SS Yongala’s bow. I found the Six Spot Rockcod together with the unidentified school in front and the trevally coming out of the blue – it’s a very busy dive site as I already mentioned numerous times and reminds me of a big herd all going [...]

More SS Yongala goodness! Irene identified this unusual fellow as a reef bannerfish . Photographically, you have to love the form for it’s lines and the angles it gives you.
Here I tried to compose diagonally and got lucky with the wreck in the background running almost perpendicular to the dorsal fin. A bright, prominently patterned, [...]

More work from my favourite shipwreck to date. The SS Yongala superstructure lays at an angle on her starboard side. If you descend all the way, you reach the end of the decks where the railing must have been in about 27-30m and can fit just underneath the wreck in some places.
This was photographed just [...]

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 [...]

A green turtle as found off the bow of the SS Yongala. The Yongala has a resident population of several green and hawksbill sea turtles, which is of course convenient for the budding photographer. Learnings for me include that this species has absolute right of way in the ocean and is not afraid to [...]

If you ever have a chance to go to Townsville, Queensland, don’t miss the chance to dive the wreck of the SS Yongala (if you have an interest in shipwrecks, I also recommend a follow up visit to the Townsville Maritime Museum). It is ranked amongst the top dives in the world and for good [...]

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