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The Story Behind...

The section of the website that can be seen here in this blog, and on almost every page of the site. It has the purpose of explaining how an image was captured, or if there was and special story behind the image that made it memorable to me.

My intention is to publish a new mini 'article' every week for either a shot on the land or a shot underwater.

I hope you enjoy reading about how the good (and sometimes bad) photos were taken.



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 Fish Eggs are hard to shoot when they are from big fish... These are from a small blenny.  This entire frame is 4mm across.
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Hyla bifurca Sailing into the Atoll of To'au at dawn when the weather is flat calm is an absolute pleasure, I took this image as the sun was creeping over the horizon on one of the few occasions we saw another boat at this wonderful location.

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Hippocampus bargibanti is a tiny seahorse that is found on seafans of the indo-pacific, it is normally pink in colour and grows to 2cm tall!

 
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The Harlequin Shrimp (Hymenocera elegans) is a highly colourful shrimp which predates on Starfish, the large, somewhat useless pincers (chelipeds) are mainly used for display.

 
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This young lad was taking his horse for a swim and wash at sunrise as I went out to photograph the bay in the soft morning light. As I came back into the beach he took the horse for a canter in the shallows

 
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Chasing Dreams Sharks are normally pretty tough to get close to, but in the right conditions, they come close!

Here a Grey Reef Shark was swimming in between a group of divers in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia.

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Hummingbird This shot of a Hummingbird was taken in the Cloud Forest of Ecuador, it took several hours of patient waiting with the camera and heavy telephoto lens. I shot about a hundred photos, but this one jumped out to me when i got back to my laptop, and is the only image i have used from the set.
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