Day 478, Well Hung Bus

It seems almost bizarre to me the dimensions of these hand-straps on our local buses. Surely the hand-strap has only to be large enough in its opening to place a large hand through. These on the other hand (pun unintended) could easily fit the fist of a mountain troll. I shudder at the thought of […]

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Day 477, Amoria undulata

The Undulate Volute, Amoria undulata is a regular sight on any night dive at Rapid Bay. They are strikingly beautiful and move quite swiftly over the sand hunting other molluscs. Volutes in general have gorgeous shell and body markings but what I really love about this one is how well they are matched. At a […]

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Day 476, Red Red Wine

Tonight we were just about to settle in for a home movie night. The carafe was filled, the wine poured, and the room glowed with the colours of the screen. As I sat there I watched the light shift and dance as it reflected from the carafe and wine glasses. At that moment I decided […]

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Day 475, Mister Urchin

Nearly a year ago I met the amazing marine scientist Ashley Miskelly on a dive trip to the outer parts of the Great Barrier Reef. He changed forever my perspective of the word ‘urchin’. By the end of that trip he had us all ignoring the stunning corals, the beautiful tropical reef fish and the […]

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Day 474, Cormorant Silhouette

I love the way water sparkles. Capturing an image of sparkling water full of dazzling specular highlights is not as simple as pointing the camera at it! This will almost never capture the feel because, well a captured image does no sparkle! So to make that sparkle look good I needed a model and this […]

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