Fronting up to a desk job every day for a prolong period is a sure way to loose contact with photography. Or is it? Well it might be an easy excuse but really there is no reason why a quick lunch break and a 30 minute stroll away from your desk can’t be used to […]
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Our Rapid Bay night dive was meant to be about little critters, especially nudibranchs smaller than half my little finder but when this Southern Calamari (Sepioteuthis australis) came into my view I was suitably distracted. In fact I was so distracted in the strong current that I had drifted 70m or more from the jetty […]
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Before I started diving I expected all the fish living in temperate waters to be silvery and those in tropical waters to be colourful. My logic was simple, I’d only every caught silvery fish with my dad while growing up and I’d only ever seen brightly coloured fish in marine documentaries of tropical locations. I […]
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Leafy Seadragons are extraordinary creatures and we are privileged to share our part of the world with them. This little youngster is only about 10cm in length and at that size can range from bright orange to deep red making them quite spectacular. Regardless of size or colour, getting to hang with a dragon is […]
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Southern Calamari, squid or Sepioteuthis australis (if you want to get technical) are wonderful to watch at night when they are out hunting. This juvenile under Edithburgh Jetty shows the incredible colouration created by the chromatophores in their skin. They also remind me of the sentinels in ‘The Matrix’, affectionately know as the squiddies! Photo: […]
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