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Photography Articles

Big Shot - A new perspective

The idea is outrageous. Who would use a teleconverter with a fisheye lens? Tele-converters are designed to extend the capabilities of telephoto lenses. But on a fisheye lens?

Big Shot - Open up and say aahhh

Here's a set of gnashers to strike fear into any dentist, let alone an underwater photographer who wants to take a shot like this one.

Seascapes - Ancient mariners

Sturgeon are the elusive gentle giants swimming in the deep dark corners of the lakes, rivers and estuaries in the northern hemisphere.

Mantis shrimps resemble my idea of what an alien should look like. Odontodactylus scyllarus, the beautiful red, green and blue species, belongs to a group of stomatopods that I can only describe as ‘shrimps on steroids’.

Big Shot - Pot Shot

Almost Every photographer has his or her favourite subject. For David Hall, one of these is seahorses and their relatives, pipefish and sea dragons.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Wakatobi

Situated in a small archipelago just Southeast of Sulawesi, a large Amoeba shaped island in the center of Indonesia, Wakatobi is truly a slice of paradise in the middle of nowhere.

Big Shot - Model Behaviour

Forty sharks are circling with languid grace in the blue water, attracted by the scent of dead fish wafting from a steel box. In the midst of them is a small group of people.

Seascapes - Viva la Revolución

Caribbean batfish swim straight out of a cartoon strip. They have a Dr Seuss snout and pouty pumped-up Hollywood lips.

Big Shot - Compact Colossus

Despite the sophistication of today’s auto-everything cameras, it is still the photographer who takes the picture.

Seascapes - Under the boat

Sometimes, I think the most important rule in shark photography should be, ‘Don’t block the ladder’.

Big Shot - Gaping Moray

Meet the ‘exploding zoom’. Originally the effect was discovered by accident soon after a particular brand’s 80–200mm zoom lens came on the market.

Shoun Maru wreck

In late 1944 a US Navy Grumman TBF torpedo bomber sighted a Japanese freighter, the Shoun Maru, off-loading cargo to the island of Rota in the Northern Marianas Islands.

King of the Fish

A tiny lionfish beat seahorses, sharks and shipwrecks to be the subject of the ‘best in show’ winning photograph of the ‘Our World Underwater’ 2007 photography competition.