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Once in some calmer water, I photographed some very large Coral Trout. I was delighted to spot a one metre long baby Queensland Cod. They have the tell tale bulging eyeballs. All too soon, I had to ascend up the line and along our cross overline back to Kalinda. Photography at night is a challenge, especially when you are in strong currents in remote places.

Night photo of a Lined Coral trout , Alotau PNG

over in the blink of an eye, far too short to film. We come back to the rule ‘Always get closer” I love night diving As the dive calms down, my heart beat returns to normal. I begin to enjoy the velvety blackness as it is pierced by the beam of your torch. I am enveloped in a jet black watery blanket hoping for a discovery worth photographing. I do have a

As for the shark, it was impossible to photograph. The only way to capture the action here was to video it. This is when a Go Pro might have ‘got the footage’. The SLR camera simply cannot focus on a shark moving that fast in darkness. In addition, most cameras have trouble resolving a distant shark in the inky blackness. On the other hand, the shark encounter was all

Parrotfish are nearly impossible to photograph in the daytime .

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