BlueBeyond's photostream

Bare Island, La Perouse is a beautiful spot for photographs, particularly for a 6.58am sunrise with the beautiful greens and greys of the islands contrasting with the colourful sky.

I chose this perspective to try to make the island inviting. You're drawn across the bridge to the inviting island that was once a fort protecting Sydney's Botany Bay. If you've flown into Sydney you've probably flown right over Bare Island.

I do like this image, but want to go back soon and re-shoot it so that the edges of the island aren't cropped.

The spinecheek anemone fish is one of several anemone fish found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters.

This one is so named due to the spiney growth protruding from the side of the fish's face that you can see quite clearly in the photo, just under the eye and extending over the flourescent white band.

These are quite a pretty anemone fish, founding living in a symbiotic relationship with its host anemone.

This image was made on a dive In Milne Bay, PNG, where we were diving from the Tawali Resort. I used a 60mm macro lens and two strobes to provide even lighting.

These two Chromodoris kuniei were spotted on a dive in 2006 in PNG's Milne Bay area.

The nudibranch on the right is facing us, while the one on the left is facing away. This "69" position is how nudibranchs typically mate.

C. kuniei is one of the more vividly coloured nudibranchs, with the beautiful purples of the mantle edge and spots contrasting the golden brown.

On a recent trip to Coffs Harbour, I spent a sunset down by the harbour at Coffs Jetty, and captured some images of a working harbour at dusk.

This is an HDR image made from a single RAW file. Although I took multiple bracketed exposures, the movement of the boats in the moderate wind makes it impractical to use multiple images to create an HDR image without significant blurring of the foreground.

I liked the moon above the boats in the Harbour.

This image was made at North Log, one of the brilliant dive sites near Uepi in the Solomon Islands.

The nudibranch is Chromodoris lochi, a reasonably common nudibranch in tropical Indo Pacific waters.

I liked the side on profile of this individual, and the blurred background really sharpens the nudibranch.

On processing this image, I was delighted to find an even smaller subject riding the back of the nudi.