There is something post apocalyptic about his image. The dead rubble, the grey gloom, the line of steel posts running off into nothing and a lone cowfish missing most of her tail. This poor girl is a female ‘Shaw’s Cowfish’, Arcana aurita, and when I cam across her she was tucked in behind the steel […]
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Visibility at Rapid Bay has dropped off a little following that dread northerly wind and corresponding bottom surge. The wide angle lens may not be able to capture the larger environment very well but does a fin job in its other role of close focus wide angle. This majid spider crab, Leptomithrax gaimadii, seems happy […]
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I remember the first time I laid eyes on this scene 25 years ago as vividly as if it were yesterday. This sweeping stretch coastline from Normanville to where the road heads inland and down on to Cape Jervis overlooks Lady Bay out to sea and Rapid Head out to the west. Last night we […]
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Capturing movement in water is a tricky business. If you are too fast the water looks like frozen ice. Too slow and it looks like mist. Somewhere either side of these extremes there is a range of exposure times where the movement simply makes the water look blurred. Then there is that sweet spot where […]
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This amazing sponge has been a deep water landmark for me since the first time I cam across it more than 4 years ago. We really do get some big sponges here in South Australia and have some incredible sponge gardens which leave anything tropical in their salty wake. What we have is cold to […]
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