It’s such a conundrum for me diving here at Port Hughes with both gorgeous mega and macro photography opportunities. I love big underwater vistas, so almost always I will go wide angle in the hope of capturing the huge schools of scad amid soft coral-adorned pylons. On occasion I have dived with divers carrying two […]
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This gal does not miss a trick. She’s on to me. She knows I am likely to dislodge a rock accidentally with my fin. Or perhaps I’ll peer under a bit of fallen debris. Either event might deliver some poor morsel into view and unwittingly I’ll have delivered dinner. Wavy grubfish are masters of this […]
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This image has been 122 years in the making, 113 of those quietly resting on the sea floor off the South Australian York Peninsula. Forty souls lost their lives that fateful night back in 1909, more than two thirds of her crew. The SS Clan Ranald is one of my all time favourite South Australian […]
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Inquisitive, opportunistic and oh so photogenic! The wavy grubfish is just as eager to please the lens as wait for me to disturb some unsuspecting lunch! Move a rock or disturb some weed and wavy grubfish will be there in a moment to see if you have provided lunch. Anything you do which might drive […]
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Indistinct shapes move among indistinct forms. The large forms wobble, snap back; wobble, snap back; wobble, snap back. As if they are trying to escape some invisible force holding them in place. They have been trying a very, very long time. The smaller forms wobble, drift; wobble, drift; wobble, drift. The force that brings them […]
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