By Vaimoana Tapaleao
4:00 AM Wednesday Jan 6, 2010

This photo was snapped on the water near Tokerau Beach. Photo / Emma McGill
Emma McGill was careful not to drop her camera into the water when an orca decided to get up close and personal with kayakers at Tokerau Beach in Northland.
On holiday from Wellington, she snapped this [...]

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Check out some great video footage taken by Arman at the Poor Knights Islands in November 2009.

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The Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA) has just launched its inaugural Shipwreck Photography Competition. It will run for 1 Dec 2009 – 31 March 2010. There are some great prizes, and entry categories are Shipwreck & Nature; Shipwreck Underwater & Divers; and Shipwreck above water. Entries can be made under each section by professionals, [...]

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In Hot Pursuit
Bryde’s whales rocket through Pacific shallows to gorge on fish.
By Jennifer Holland
Photograph by Doug Perrine

The ocean off Baja erupts like a torpedo range. A long, lean whale shoots up from the deep, chasing thousands of mackerel and sardines as they’re driven toward the surface by marlins and sea lions. Suddenly it lunges at [...]

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Canon has announced a handful of compact cameras including models aimed squarely at keen photographers. Top of the line is the PowerShot G11, successor to its flagship PowerShot G10 compact released last year. The G11 replaces the G10’s 14.7MP sensor with what it describes as a high sensitivity 10 MP CCD though it still uses [...]

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