Reef Life: A Celebration of Indo-Pacific Marine Life by Wayne Osborn
Reef life is a celebration of the stunning marine biodiversity of the Indo-Pacific region. It’s a companion volume to Reef Fish (which covers the same region) and is also available as an Apple Book.
Reef Life trawls a variety of species from the temperate southwest of Western Australia and slowly meanders through the famed Coral Triangle (Raja Ampat and Sulawesi). Of course, photographs never deliver full justice to the grandeur of the natural world, but it was a labour of love working through these files and finding new discoveries tucked away in some of the images.
We are only shutter jockeys, not scientists so the identification work comes from scratching around in reference books and online searches. Any errors in species identification are entirely our own and feedback is most welcome as we will update and correct this book from time to time.
On line reference material such as the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s coral fact sheets at www.coral.aims.gov.au were incredibly helpful.
The images have been taken with digital SLR’s since 2005. Pam’s images have all been taken whilst free diving (from the surface to a depth of 12 metres).
She is always prompt to point out that she has little time to prepare and compose her shots against the luxury of my nearly unlimited bottom time.
We are both careful to minimise our intrusion on the marine environment when taking photographs.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
