Filmed under Port Hughes Jetty, South Australia this amazing display of octopus mating behavior with one male defending his access to a female against another male’s advances was an unexpected surprise. I shared this extraordinary encounter with diving friends Alex Sutandio, Mike Rowlands and Robert Paton. Sound thanks to ‘Bensound’ www.bensound.com
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I Sea a Horse
The Short-Head Seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps, is one of the cutest seahorses in the sea and Edithburgh is great place to find and photograph them. I almost never see them during the day but at night a bit of hunting will soon find them. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘I Sea a Horse’ 1/100s f/14 ISO320 100mm
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Photogenic
Always willing to pose for an image is Edithburgh’s Gurnard Pearch. When nothing else seems to want to stay in the frame; when the hunt for a prettier subject is failing; when the surge is making midwater images impossible; there is always a gurnard perch, or three sitting on the sand patiently waiting for their […]
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Photobombed
The world of macro marine photography is full of life and colours and action that many new divers simply swim on by. However for photographers and those who take the time to look nudibranchs make wonderful subjects due to their diversity of colour and form. This bulldozer of a sea slug, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, may only […]
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Sponge Bob
This bizarre looking sea sponge in the sea grass beds off Edithburgh Jetty reminds me of a a cross between a diseased heart and a human brain. It really does look like something that has been recently extracted from an animal and dumped on the ocean floor. Oddly enough this strange looking form is actually […]
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