This colony of blue throated ascidians are marine creatures that live attached to a pylon under the Busselton Jetty. This is a photograph I took when I was beginning to learn about underwater phtography. Scuba diving and photography often make some wonderful images. Water and cameras however do not mix so well, which is where the art of underwater photography becomes difficult. Nikonos V – 35mm with macro extension tube / Fujicrome slide film
An eel living at home within some barrell sponge, waiting for its next tasty treat. / In southern Thailand, 2006.
Red Lionfish Sold as a laminated print to an unknown RB buyer, thank you!
Starfish
Macro of a head of stoney coral. / View my underwater collection here Take a look at my other photos /
Leafy Sea Dragon – taken in the wild… none of this photo at the zoo nonsense / :) Photo taken roughly 7 m under water at Rapid Bay Jetty.
A small school of silver fish swim over the coral reef in Indonesia
The dive master in Fiji was good enough to put on a demonstration of how well he could blow these bubble rings.
I was lucky enough to spend nearly an hour swimming alongside this juvenille green turtle (Chelonia mydas) on the fringing reef at Lady Elliott Island in the Southern part of the Great Barrier Reef. Lady Elliott is a beautiful island that is home to a wide variety of marine life and seabirds. Best of all the resort is reasonably priced fairly basic accommodation unlike most of the rest of the island resorts in the GBR. If you get the chance then Lady Elliott is well worth the trip. During my week long visit I would have seen more than >10 green turtles, hatchlings on the beach, sharks, rays, gourpers and a myriad of other reef fish. The coral reef on the other side of the island is spactacular with huge plate (Acropora sp.) corals everywhere. It is truly magic.
The king of ocean: shark / 3d golden shark swim Download Royal Free Images of Sgame / / Download Royal Free Images of Sgame
30” X 36” oil on canvas 6/2007 Original SOLD / /
/ / / Scuba Diva is my latest creation for the “Children of the World” Series / She is a mixed media production created on brown paper over white gesso / using chalk pastels, acyrlic paint and charcoal. Scuba Diva was influenced and inspired by two friends of mine here on Red Bubble, both of their names have the initials MT Muscular Teeth who a great friend of mine challenged me to create this one… and MattTworkowski inspired me with his beautiful photographs from under the sea…. /
Red Sea Anemone Fish
Australian Sea Lion at Hopkins Island, South Australia / Sea Lions are Pinnipeds that is the same family as Seals and Walrus, but not exactly the same. / They are also mammals. / This SeaLion is endemic to Australia, that is it is only found in Australia. They are particularly found in South Australia and Western Australia. / As you can see they are very sociable and very curious. This shot also features in one of my calendar’s
Sometimes it is better to be lucky than to be good. I did position myself to silhouette the turtle against the sun, but it was pure luck that my initial large exhalation bubble got between me and the turtle and picked up the animal’s reflection. This was shot at Darwin Island in the Galapagos, May, 2007.
Australian Sea Lions at Hopkins Island, South Australia. / Sea Lions are Pinnipeds that is the same family as Seals and Walrus, but not exactly the same. / They are also mammals. / This SeaLion is endemic to Australia, that is it is only found in Australia. They are particularly found in South Australia and Western Australia. / As you can see they are very sociable and very curious. Any profits fro the sale of this piece as a postcard will go to the Australian Marine Conservation Society. The peice is also available as part of a set from thie giftshop; http://amcs.org.au/Product.asp?CategoryID=9 This shot also features in one of my calendar’s
Grey Nurse Sharks hang out off the NSW coast. Grey Nurse Sharks are known as Raggy Tooth Sharks in South Africa and Sand Tiger Sharks in the US. They are endangered in Australia, particularly in New South Wales waters yet the government has only made a half hearted attempts to protect the species. This shot is taken at Fish Rock, a known GNS aggregation site. While I was diving here several boats were fishing in this “protected” site (couple of hundred meter radius)...protecting = no anchoring for the fishing boats…..a joke! If there is a happy story for the GNS, its that public awareness of its plight is growing and that has to be a good thing. This shot also features in one of my calendar’s
Schooling Jacks and Diver at the Liberty wreck in Bali, Indonesia. Available to purchase worldwide: / This was featured on the RedBubble homepage and in Monochrome , Underwater Photographers Guid , Out of the Blue , Underwater & Sealife , SEA and Shameless Self-Promotion Stay in touch Subscribe to Muzys Art Feed This image has had 1784 views as at 9th Nov 2009
Green turtle in the Cayman Islands
UNSW Underwater Club
It is estimated some 100,000,000 sharks are brutally slaughtered annually to service the increasing demand for shark fin soup. We are donating ALL proceeds of this product to a shark awareness program for 2010. For every $100 raised we will be able to buy advertising billboards throughout the city of Beijing in China, on which will be placed information to educate the general public into the plight faced by sharks. These boards will be endorsed by Yao Ming, professional basketball player with the Houston Rockets, who is one of China’s most influential, and followed personalities. Sharks are slow to mature and have few offspring. If they are to survive, some species populations are down an incredible 90% over the past two decades, then we have to act now. This calender may not be the most economic of options but with every profit penny going to this cause we can only hope that you see fit to align yourselves with a project that will have long term effects if not just for us but also, and more importantly, for our children. Thank you, / Mark Thorpe, / iDive Sharks Founder.
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