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+ Behavior - marine
+ Commercial Fishing
+ Conservation - Marine
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+ Crustaceans
+ Dangerous Animals
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+ Invertebrates
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+ Plants - Marine
+ Rays
+ Reef Scenes
+ Reptiles - Marine
+ Sea Birds
+ Seafood Dishes
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+ African Animals
+ American Animals
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+ Images added by Month
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 Hot Shots Gallery - A selection of our very favourite images.
New Images Added - A month by month listing of new images added to the site.
Recent Publications - A sample of some recent Publications we have worked on.
The Great Barrier Reef - Introduction to the Great Barrier Reef
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2012: Our Photographers have been busy this year travelling and photographing much marine life, including fantastic images of Manta Rays, some of the best we've seen. Many fantastic shots from Australia, including fish, corals and islands of the Great Barrier Reef, Sea Lions, Jetty marine life and Seadragons of the Southern Temperate Australian waters, as well as outback Australia. Many conservation issues around the world have also been well documented and our images of Sharks, Rays, Dolphins and Whale species are constantly being updated. Our Photographers from Canada and the USA have also been busy photographing marine environments and wildlife from their part of the world and our Photographers from South Africa are busy capturing images of Great White Sharks predating on Seals as well as many other Shark Species and African Wildlife. Many of our images have been used to help conservation groups portray their message this year, as well as for Wall and Museum Displays, print books, e-books and Calendars. New series of David Messent Calendars and Artique Calendars will be coming out in 2014 including lots of our images inside and on the calendar cover. It is very expensive for our photographers to travel the world and acquire these stunning images and our minimal licensing fees for image use help to offset the expense to our photographers. We look forward to helping you with your projects this year with our stunning collection of images, which in turn helps our photographers to seek out more fantastic images.
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2011: A variety of Images from Praying Mantis pictures to Australian Coastal beach seascapes added this month. Also more marine life including Cleaner Shrimps cleaning Basslets and Cardinalfish, Pufferfish, Hawkfish, Schooling Snapper and Exquisite Feather Duster Tubeworms; the flowers of the ocean.
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March2011 and April 2011: In March we included new Animal and Bird Images from Africa, South America and New Zealand added including Rare and Endangered Animals and Reptiles. In April we are adding a great assortment of underwater marine creatures, landscapes and animals including bats and Monkeys. The fish cleaning images we now have are the best we have ever seen. Check them out - Fish Cleaning!
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| Feb 2011: This month we have been adding a selection of images taken from a recent diving trip to the Yongala off Ayr in Queensland including the endangered Queensland Groper, Napolean Wrasse, Schooling Sweetlips and Cardinalfish. Many other marine images including Bluefin Tuna, fish holding pens, pelagic octopus, moray eel feeding on fish, Garibaldi, cuttlefish, monk seals, kelp, marine iguana and wave energy bouys off Hawaii. Terrestrial images include more Koalas, colourful rainforest birds such as King Parrots, Rosellas, Emerald Doves, Eclectus Parrots, and dangerous Australian snakes such as the King Brown Snake , Eastern Brown Snake and Fierce snake or Eastern Taipain - some of the most dangerous snakes in the world. We have also now added some amazing underwater critters and plants found in the Pacific regions including rare octopus including the Mosaic Octopus, Greater Blue-ringed Octopus, sea cucumbers, Stargazers, sea stars, sea sponges, corals, brittle stars, clownfish, shrimps, urchins and crabs. |
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| 2nd half 2010: Continuing to add many marine mammals including amazing shots of Breaching Great White Sharks, Cape fur seals, Blue Sharks, Sailfish, Common Dolphins and more varieties of sharks, including Hammerhead Shark. We have increased our African Animal range including Lions, Zebras, Gazelle and Baboons. Our Sea Bird species have increased along with Australian Bird varieties and Australian Animals. Also spectacular reef scenes of fish and coral, colourful nudibranchs, photos showing Marine conservation issues including marine pollution, reef damage and diesease and other animal conservation issues. November 2010: We have just added a new collection of fantastic Coral spawning and Coral reproduction photos - these photos have been collected over many years by a leading Coral scientist - these images were previously available for licensing - check them out!
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First half 2010: We have been constantly adding new images and image categories to our online database throughout this year, focusing on increasing our collection of Sharks and Marine Mammals. Some of the exciting new images we have added include Orcas attacking a Sea Lon on the shore of Argentinas coastline, Grey Whales Breaching, spyhopping and underwater and numerous other species of Whales and Sharks. Our large collection of underwater marine life continues to grow and we have recently added vaious unusual and colourful species found in the Great Barrier Reef and Indo-Pacific Ocean - see May 2010 to view a great variety of species. We are happy to welcome some new talented Photographers to our growing family of contributors including Inger Vandyke, Karen Willshaw and Chantal Henderson and will be adding new image selections from amazing photographers to our family shortly. In June 2010, Australia Post released a new series of Stamps and associated products called 'Fishes of the Reef'. They will be released in 2 parts and the Stamps and products feature all images from the Oceanwide Images collection. We will continue to be very selective in the images and photographers we represent to provide a top quality selection of images for our clients to choose from.
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| Aug 09Sep 09 - Oct 09: Images listed for the last 3 months include many amazing creatures from the Indo-Pacific region incluing Wonderpus and Mimic Octopus, many varieties of crabs, crayfish and shrimps including Mantis shrimps with eggs and the beautiful Harlequin Shrimp. Clams, cuttlefish and many colourful varieties of nudibranchs. The venomous Fire and Flower Urchins and the dangerous Demon Stinger Scorpionfish. Photos of Blacktip Reef sharks from Cocos Island and other shark and ray species. Sweetlip fish and a huge variety of Antarctic Fur Seals in family groups and with pups. Australian animals such as Kangaroos, Pademelons and Echidnas. Australian Birds such as the Regent Bowerbird flying, displaying colourful yellow wings, the Satin Bowerbird in its spectacular bower, along with many colourful parrot varieties. Emus with chicks and in groups in their natural habitat and also on Emu farms. |
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Jan 09 - Feb 09: We have included new 2 major new categories this year of African Animals and American Animals and will be building regularly on these in the coming months. Fabulous images of Migration in Africa including Nile Crocodiles hunting and catching prey whilst crossing rivers, Cheetahs with cubs, Hippopotamus, Lions in family groups and with cubs, Wildebeest, Zebra and African Primates - Baboons, Chimpanzee, Gorillas and Monkeys. Our Collection of American Animals now contains many bear photos including Black Bears, Brown Bears and Grizzly Bears, along with Coyotes. We have also listed new American Birds and Australian Birds. Also added are amazing scenic coastal pictures of Flinders Island in Southern Australia, featuring algae covered granite boulders. New marine animals include Harbor seals, Elephant Seals, Sea Otters, new Polar Bears and the endangered Sei Whale.
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Sep-Nov 08: We have been busy adding many new images to our site over the last few months - from King Penguins, Turtles feeding on Jellyfish to Australian Rainforests and Waterfalls and the deadly funnel-web spider. Also added have been Coastal Scenes, Mangroves and forests of beautiful Hayman Island, Australian Native animals including rare and endangered species such as Eastern Quoll, Proserpine Rock Wallaby and Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby, BowerBirds and Parrots, Frogs, Snakes, Lizards, Tortoises and farm animals including Sheep, Cows and Horses. Marine species added include Trout, Potato Cod, StingRays and categories.asp?cID=384. Visit our New Images Added Page for a complete listing of the new images added.
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