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Sun Corals

Postby ATJ on Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:10 pm

While these corals are often called "Sun Corals", they don't actually need any light at all, and generally only open up at night (i.e. when there is no sun).

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:51 pm

Stunning :)
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Postby Bluebell on Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:51 pm

These pictures are amzing. Please tell how you took them.
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Postby ATJ on Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:51 pm

Bluebell wrote:Please tell how you took them.

I took them using a Nikon D70 and Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II with +5 diopter lens in an Ikelite housing with 2 Ikelite DS125 Substrobes while on a night dive at Pixie's Pinnacle at the southern end of Ribbon Reef #10 on the Great Barrier Reef. All four images were taken at f/16 and 1/200s.
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Postby Geoff on Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:58 pm

Magical stuff!!
Love seeing your under water images - they're truely out of the ordinary from what we see here, and that makes them unique! Thanks for sharing.
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Postby Pehpsi on Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:01 pm

You're the master of these kind of shots :)
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:12 pm

What can I say - your images give us access to a world we rarely see - I don't always comment, but I savour each and every one of these underwater posts from you. Thanks for sharing
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Postby Willy wombat on Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:17 pm

Thanks for the exif info ATJ!
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Postby BT*ist on Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:14 pm

Great shots... those things look freaky - it looks like it's got closed eyelids at the centre of the .... uhh.. in the first one!
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Postby Old Bob on Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:10 am

Very Medusa like image, at least they didn't turn you into stone :D. Delightful as always.

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