Aussie diving - October 2012

[bowlofpetunias]

Nice shots. I like the drama of the black and whites but the third gets my vote too. Lovely nudi shots as well. Well I finally got in a dive. Work and other issues have been keeping me out of the water too much this year. I am feeling very hard done by

I found the Red Indian fish again. I found him in a cleaning station on the 22nd of Sept

On Saturday he was a little distance off but it looks like it is shedding. I know they do shed their skins like snakes do. If you look near his jawline it looks like some skin hanging lose there... same over part of the dorsal fin...

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I love it when the critters co-operate. I have been trying for ages to get a decent shot of a Senator Wrasse

This one co-operated for a change..seems to me the prettiest fish are the most camera shy:doh:

and of course the Moray!

and something a little more creative

 

[bfowles]

I love the shot of the red indian with the clingfish on its face and the first shot of the senator wrasse is awesome.

Here is a few more I shot last month, I have almost cleared through all the photos from last month so hopefully I can start looking at my photos from last night.


pygmy-squid by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr


Paridotea-ungulata by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr


Doris cameroni by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Lovely shots
my favorite shot of a nudi is this one

 

[Mantra]

Aw man! You guys really give me something to aspire to one day in terms of taking great underwater shots. Give me a decade or two to get my skills up to speed with you all

So, dove Julian Rocks at Byron again on Sunday past (the 7th). Quite bumpy topside, but a beautiful day with the sun shining. Very low viz underwater, maybe 3-5m typically with the odd spot at up to about 8m. Water temp 20 degrees at Hugo's trench and 16.7 at the Cod Hole. The viz meant that the big stuff was harder to spot, so this was a great pair of dives for my buddy and I to practice IDing other types of fish and nudis.

No real video to speak of owing to the viz, my ineptitude, and not having lights etc for close up things. Here is a short vid testing the trustfire tr-j1 torch, though. This performs pretty well - compare it to the torch another diver uses during this swimthrough. It's a beast of a torch for $45 anyway. This is taken passing through the cod hole with a school of red moorwong.

codhole7dec2012 - YouTube

 

[bowlofpetunias]

Lovely videoclip. Really pictures are about sharing the experience of the dive and creatures. You can do that just as well with green hue, murky water etc. . I sometimes like the gloomy shots that allow you to really get a sense of what the dive was like. No point in comparing your shots to someone else's it is a personal thing and I really appreciate seeing other people's shots!

 

[bfowles]

Great video Mantra. I agree with bowlofpetunias it doesn't matter about the green hue, the video made me want to go and dive that site. I have done much more shakey video than that before

Checkout the videos I shot back in 2009.
Pope's Eye 18-01-2009 - YouTube
Blairgowrie Marina - YouTube

Nice nudis bowlofpetunias, I found a lot of those in Lembeh Indonesia. There body just seems to go forever.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

There are actually two in that shot... and they are ensuring the population for the next generation. I find the Serpent Pteraeolidia particularly interesting. They are the only Nudibranch that hangs around to protect their eggs. They eat hydroids and store the undigested nematocycts in their cerata so they sting. I remember reading somewhere but I can't find the reference right now so relying on my memory which may not be totally accurate that some even maintain the cells of their prey that photosynthesize so there meals just keep on giving! Fascinating creatures!

 

[bfowles]

I'm going for a night dive tonight, but here are some photos I took last week.


grass-clingfish-1 by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr


bobtail-squid by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr


tambja by Byron.Fowles, on Flickr

 

[PeterNBiddle]

Oh that squid is just stunning!

 

[bfowles]

Thanks Peter