15 http://www.snipped.net/blog/ Mon, 21 May 2012 08:18:59 +1000 Mon, 21 May 2012 08:18:59 +1000 www.eggblog.net http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=5 <P>Kwaka sportsbikes are always sexy :)</P> <P> </P> <P><IMG border=0 alt="" src="photos/uploads/08_Night_sized.jpg"></P> http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=5 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:44:52 +1000 http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=4 <P>Check out the photo album "Night Pics 2"</P> <P><IMG border=0 alt="" src="photos/uploads/Vivid_Sydney_sized.jpg"></P> http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=4 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:34:14 +1000 http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=3 <P>Check out the album "Food Pics" in the photo section -></P> <P><IMG border=0 alt="" src="photos/uploads/DSC_0002_sized.jpg"></P> http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=3 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:56:07 +1000 http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=2 <P>Here are some of the pics I took for my photography course.</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P>  </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P>Subject: Night Photograpy</P> <P> <IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Night2.jpg" border=0></P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Night03.jpg" border=0></P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Night04.jpg" border=0></P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Night09.jpg" border=0></P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Night10.jpg" border=0></P> <P> </P> http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=2 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:40:59 +1100 http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=1 <P>When one of my favourite photographers, Doubilet, carried out an assignment for one of my favourite magazines, National Geographic, with my all-time favourite creature, the nudibranch, I was in heaven.</P> <P>Nudibranch's are the coolest thing on the planet.  Awesome colours, vulnerable yet they gather the tools to ensure they aren't fucked with, and just totally gorgeous.</P> <P>They breathe out of external gills, typically the tree-like thing poking out of their back (imagine the lungs growing out of their backs and floating above them).  While some manufacture their own toxins, the rest of them gather the poison from their food (coral, anenomes, etc).   More info can be found at the National Geographic website: <A href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/2">http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text/2</A></P> <P> </P> <P>Chromodoris annae is the first creature I met when I started diving.  I was a total newbie, sitting on the sandy bottom, steadying myself against a rock (not coral - touching coral can kill it) in the current while my dive buddy did his skills tests.  This little fella climbed across the rock and up onto my hand.  It was love at first sight - I was enchanted.  After a closer look and a little chat with him, I placed my hand back on the rock and let him crawl off on his way.   </P> <P>Enjoy the following stunning photographs by Doubilet.  I think I'm going to buy a set of them (see the nat. geo website to puchase prints)</P> <P>Chromodoris annae:</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Chromodoris%20annae.jpg" border=0></P> <P>Chromodoris sp.</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Chromodoris%20sp.jpg" border=0></P> <P>Jorunna funebris:</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Jorunna%20funebris.jpg" border=0></P> <P>Nembrotha kubaryana:</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Nembrotha%20kubaryana.jpg" border=0></P> <P> </P> <P>Nembrotha christata:</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Nembrotha%20cristata.jpg" border=0></P> <P>Bornella anguilla:</P> <P><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="photos/uploads/Bornella%20anguilla%20.jpg" border=0></P> http://www.snipped.net/blog/news.php?id=1 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:49:44 +1100