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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I was out of the water already after the dive at Palm Island, when Matt spotted this ball of baitfish from the boat. Lucky me started the dive with 270bar of air (can you say burst disk?) so I had some left and went back there to find them in the hundreds presumably hiding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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