Pretty in pink

Pretty in pink

Pretty in pink

These tiny tropical shrimps (Periclemenes soror) are found along the NSW coast in summer on the underside of seastars, always changing their colors to suit the coloring of their hosts. Pinkish/purple stars have shrimps as per picture, red seastars have red shrimps etc. Equipment: Nikonos III, 35mm lens with 2:1 (double life-size magnification - not 1:2) extension tube, single flash. Photocomp January '05 - Open

2005-01-21

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The Mystery of the Smelly SharksThe Mystery of the Smelly Sharks
On Tuesday 21st of October 2003 some divers reported seeing lots of small dead sharks lying on the bottom in about 8 metres of water at Camp Cove, just inside the entrance to Sydney Harbour ...
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