Diving Into the New Year.

Hi Folks,

the weather has been up and down here in Melbourne with a bit of a Spring in Summer thing happening at the moment

but despite the wind and rain there's still been good diving to be had. Here's a few of my recent shots for your amusement.

A tiny Weedfish Heteroclinus sp, keeping one eye on me and one on the strobe.

A lovely Short-head Seahorse on finger sponge.

A Southern Pygmy Squid being fierce and intimidating.

A pair of Dragonets rising up to spawn.

A Banded Wobbegong, that was recently seen at Rye Pier, zooming by.

A juvenile Pot-belly Seahorse at night.

Cheers and Happy Diving in 2009!

Jim

Great photos Jim, I especially like the first sea horse and the Wobbegong shark.

Congrats and happy shooting

Karen

Jim, excellent photos, well done. Excellent subjects, presentation, and moment captured.

Scott

Nice shots of really interesting subjects, whereabouts are you diving in Melbourne?

Pic. of the Wobbegong Shark is really awesome!!!

Scubamoose

Good catch on the dragonettes Jim - that must have been challenging

Great photos Jim, I especially like the first sea horse and the Wobbegong shark.

 

Congrats and happy shooting

 

Karen

Thanks Karen, I really am lucky to live where Seahorses and Seadragons are aplenty. I was stoked at how the pan shot

of the Wobbegong turned out as they are quite a rare find here. We had two big (2-2.5m) ones hanging around one of

the local piers to feed on a school of Mullet for a couple of weeks, it was exiting to see and photograph them.

Nice shots of really interesting subjects, whereabouts are you diving in Melbourne?

Thanks TJ I live near the Mornington Peninsula and do mainly shore dives in that area. Most of my images on Flickr are mapped.

Good catch on the dragonettes Jim - that must have been challenging

Thanks Steve, is was stoked to get some nice sharp keepers with the compact of that. Just after I took that shot they split

apart and zapped back down to the bottom.

Cheers,

Jim.

I was hoping to get down to Melbuorne in Feb but it looks like that has fallen through.. I have a few mates down that way, Brighton, Blairgowrie etc