THE BIG GUYS OF SIPADAN Page Two

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 Sipadan is famous for turtles as they live around the island in great numbers
and can be seen mating and they nest on the beaches.

Taken with Nexus housed F4 on Velvia Film
70-180mm Zoom  and Subtronic Gamma Strobe

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 Turtles get tired too, and this fellow was sound asleep as I approached,
opened one eye, gave me a dirty look and went right back to sleep!

Taken with Nexus housed F4 on Velvia Film
20mm Nikor lens and Subtronic Gamma and S&S YS30 TTL slave strobes.

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 This shark is seen taking a nap with his friendly Ramora buddy.

Taken with Nexus housed F4 on Velvia Film
70-180 Zoom lens with Subtronic Gamma and S&S YS30 TTL Slave strobes

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 There are huge schools of barracuda, travale and here we see a
tornado of Jacks at Barracuda Point.

Taken with Nexus housed F4 on Velvia Film
70-180 Zoom lens with Subtronic Gamma and S&S YS30 TTL Slave strobes

(Background pattern taken from a macro image of a brittlestar body and manipulated with Photoshop 5.0)

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Phillip Slosberg.
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