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A very large Giant Cuttlefish (Sepia apama) strikes a pose on the edge of its territory.
I took some sunset shots from the water but the visibility wasn't great... as I got out, I noticed that the tide had dropped low enough for me to hop into a rock pool and get some interesting sundown shots!
Raggy tooth shark, taken at the 'Cathedral' South Africa.
Close encounter with an Oceanic Blacktip Shark at Aliwal Shoal, South Africa
A couple of banded toadfish Hide in the sand, only showing their opalescent eyes to passersby.
Oceanic Blacktip Shark admiring his reflection in my dome
A perfect picture highlighting the benign nature of sharks. The diver wasn't even aware that he wasn't the center of attraction in the shot, until the shark swam in between us.
Beautifully fluorescent anemone
Reef in Balaclava in Turtle Bay ,Mauritius.Jean-Yves Bignoux
Canon EOS 7D,Ikelite underwater housing DS160 strobe/flash.
Shy sharks glow green under fluorescent photography lighting. It was really great to watch these green sharks swimming around on the sandy bottom.
Home Sweet Home
Celebrating Jellyfish Day with this photo taken in Simon's Town, Cape Town earlier this year.
A Pachycerianthus spp or purple tipped tube anemone close up, lit with a single 800lumen lamp from a top down perspective.
Sea Slug Day celebrated with a yellow gasflame nudibranch
I celebrated Sea Slug Day on Saturday by shooting macro for a change. We have LOADS of nudibranchs in Cape Town, all different shapes, colours and sizes. Here is an example of a gasflame nudibranch, named as its cerata resemble flames of gas light
The other side of a walking anemone. A species unique to the Cape Peninsula of South Africa
grouper
Walking sea anemone a rare and unique species of the Cape Peninsula South Africa
Open mouths
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Schooling fish surrounding us on a dusk dive in Cape Town
Night hunting
Reef manta at the cleaning station. Taken at Baa Atoll, Maldives
Parrot fish with guest
All divers who have done a night dive in Cape Town will be familiar with the swarms of beaked sandfish, which hide in the sand during the day, but as soon as its full dark, they come out to feed by the hundreds. W
Blue tang
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Blue bottle bobbing around in a tidal pool at Kalk Bay
The first time underwater fluorescence has been investigated and documented in South Africa - specifically the unique waters of Cape Town. I was very excited to see if we had any fluorescence in temperate waters as it is well known to occur in tropic
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