Anyone who as taken a flash photograph while it is snowing would know just how annoying those fuzzy white blurs of light can be. It’s like the physical world is conspiring against you. You see your subject fine through the rain or snow yet in the captured image the main even is upstaged by a […]
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Well it was more like ‘boo’ than ‘bump’ as this rough rock crab (Nectocarcinus integrifrons) stood its ground. I am not sure who was more surprised as I swam past a pylon to find this guy, claws reared, and that unmistakable ‘do you want a piece of me!’ look in its eyes. I am sure […]
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Impressive as his pose may be there is not much fight or life left in this big male cuttlefish. Countless fights have fought for the reward of an intimate encounter. He’s still in one piece so there is a very good chance his progeny and genetic line will live on. That’s all that matters in […]
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Framed by curtains of rain, bathed in sunset gold, the sun peeks below the dark clouds of the receding winter. Not since I was a child do I remember rain like this season has brought. As if the curtains of winter were finally drawn back, this weekend was the first in weeks the rain has […]
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Well, more orange perhaps, but plenty of deep deep colour. This was the afterglow of tonight’s beautiful sunset on the Grange beach foreshore. The inclement stormy weather of the last few weeks has turned our coastal waters into something akin to an insipid mocha. As a scuba diver I’ll just have to wait until water […]
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