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peter perry
Blue Groper at East Wall, Bare Island, NSW taken with a Sony P8.
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Kath
Taken with Canon PowerShot A80 at Bare Island, NSW On the 27th Dec 2004. We had this little fellow pointed out to us by another diver. Instead of searching the net for 3 days to identify, all I had to do was watch the DVD I got for Xmas…"Beneath the Southern Seas"….Thanks Akos. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Kath
We thought we were really clever to keep finding seahorses every dive here….Until we were told by locals that where we find them is commonly known as "Seahorse Rock". Taken with Canon PowerShot A80 at Bare Island, NSW. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Kath
Taken with Canon PowerShot A80 at Kurnell, NSW on the 26th Jan 2005. Yes, it's the same frog fish but I love it. These guys are so ugly that they're cute. As usual Kurnell supplies me with something new to me. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Kath
Taken with Canon Powershot A80 at Kurnell, NSW on the 26th Jan 2005. How cute is this guy? Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
The big-bellied seahorse is one of two in Sydney, very territorial, one can see the same specimens in the same spot for days or even months on end!!! Taken at Kurnell National Park, using a Nikonos III, 35mm lens and 1:2 extension tube, single strobe. Photocomp January'05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
These tiny tropical shrimps (Periclemenes soror) are found along the NSW coast in summer on the underside of seastars, always changing their colors to suit the coloring of their hosts. Pinkish/purple stars have shrimps as per picture, red seastars have red shrimps etc. Equipment: Nikonos III, 35mm lens with 2:1 (double life-size magnification - not 1:2) extension tube, single flash. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
My friend's first encounter with grey nurse sharks. His eyes almost popped out of his head. Taken at Maroubra, NSW using a Nikonos III, 15mm lens, twin strobes. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
Striped catfish hang out in big, compact schools to avoid predation. Taken at Camp Cove, Sydney Harbour, using a Nikonos III, 35mm lens 1;3 extension tube, single strobe. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
This comb wrasse (Coris picta) was adamant on seeing his own reflection in my macro lens. Shot with a Nikonos III, 35mm lens and 9" macro converter, twin Aquasea strobes. About December 1997. Photocomp January '05 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
This little PJ pup was part of a pack of 15-20 little babies in Watsons Bay, Sydney. We observed them for over a month in September 2001, before they moved out into deeper water and finally disappeared. Photocomp December '04 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
This is a new discovery from Sydney waters. The little fish, a Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse (Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri), is very hard to photograph. This is a 1:1 shot with a Nikonos III.
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Ákos Lumnitzer
Taken on the left-hand-side of Camp Cove, NSW over very silty, barren ground with a 1:1 framer on a Nikonos III. Photocomp December '04 - Open
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Ákos Lumnitzer
We were nightdiving under the Kurnell refinery jetty, NSW and these little spotted Dumpling Squids were all over the place! I have never seen so many in a night, and many were feeding on the hinge-beak shrimps. Photocomp December '04 - Open
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ron.j
This photo was taken at Fish Reef, Sydney. The Bayliss shells are all laying their eggs at the moment we don't often see them laying at Fish Reef this was the only one. Photocomp December '04 - Open