It’s all about the angle when searching for dragons. Leafy Seadragons are masters of camouflage, blending into kelp or any of the other brown algaes they associate themselves with. You could be looking right at one from the side or from above and not even realise it. Get below one, however, where there is nothing […]
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Only Once
The wonderful thing about sunsets is we get a brand new and completely unique one every single day. The sad thing about sunsets is you will never see another one just like the one you saw tonight. So many times I find myself watching an amazing sunset unfold and not being able to photograph it. […]
Read MoreMarching Orders
These yellowtail seemed so regimented into their ‘march on by’ that I could not help but imagine they had been given their marching orders. Although this looks like a night shot it was actually created in full daylight by using a combination of bright strobe lighting to ‘drown out the daylight’ and then pulling back […]
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A few weeks ago I first noticed the behavior of a male toadifsh (Omegophora armilla) collecting objects and filling a discarded bucket with them. On this dive I found another toadfish behaving in a similar way but this time filling a large sponge. I wonder if they have completed their collections yet? What happens when […]
Read MoreHeavens Above
Imagine for a moment that going to heaven for a fish might have something to do with that strange sunlit world above? Twenty years ago, ‘up there’, would have been teaming with amateur fishers angling for a piece of undersea action. From the fishes perspective the last place they might wish to go. For years […]
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