418 Dive Log Australasia JUNE 2026.pdf

Night photography in Sydney Sydney offers so much colourful marine life. It can be world class and provides excellent opportunities for great photograpy. There are so many stunning images to capture in a kaleidoscope of colour. Night Photography is an absorbing and fascinating challenge enhanced by learning many of the deepset darkest secrets of the ocean that are revealed at night. NIght creatures come out to hunt, daytime creatures slep and predators are on the prowl. Lots of animals reproduce at night. Night diving It opens the door to a wonderworld of hidden treasures and secrets of marine life. Sydney boasts excellent night diving. My web site has lots of helpful comments about all aspects of Underwater Photography:

Photo captions: Page one Bottom Left: Bright Red Serpulid or Cement Worm from Sydney Top Right: Capturing the moment an Octopus is dying. Selfie from late 1980’s at Oak Park, Cronulla. Bottom Right: Close up of an Anemone hermit Crab , Page 2: Top Left. A Mourning Cuttle devours a Scorpion fish. Shark Point, Clovelly Centre left: Mosaic Leatherjacket resting on a Fan sponge Centre right: Blue Lined Octopus at Shiprock. Bottom left: Sepia apama, world’s largest Cuttle Bottom right: Sydney has the woprld’s best Decorator crabs Page 3: Top. Massive schools of large Catfish Centre left: Dumpling Squid burying itself into the sand. Centre Right: Hermit crabs own the night. Bottom left: Dwarf Lion fish Shiprock on Brain Ascidean

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Dive Log Australasia #418 JUNE ’26

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