South Bondi’s verdant sea grass patch masquerades as an evergreen forest swept with sand for snow. Shot in less than 10cm of water.

Exotic colours echo visions of Mars on the Malabar Peninsula. Shot with the lens within one centimetre of the surface.

Wind generated ripples of an incoming tide at Long Reef break over a lone outcrop of rock appear to resemble a mountain swept by clouds. Shot in less than 15cm of water.

The lens of Stephen’s camera barely made it within a few centimetres of water to obtain this shot. The unique colours of Long Reef rock give this image abstract, alien qualities.

A ghostly, rusting girder is one of the few remaining legacies of a hospital and leper colony that once occupied the Little Bay area. The lens sits just under the water’s surface.

An inverted image of a weathered channel where only very high tides and large swells could have sculptured the stone into a skeletal formation. The lens perched in two centimetres of water.

Behind a breaking wave at Curl Curl after sunset is ominously dark and deceptively shallow. Shot in less than 60cm of water.

A stranded blue bottle floats in less than 10cm of water against a surreal background in Collaroy’s tidal shallow.

Periwinkles graze on one of Avalon’s many and varied intertidal rock pools in less than ten centimetres of water.

Layers of kelp dance in the currents at Vaucluse bay where the camera lens is only 1cm below the water’s surface.

Converging perspectives between diorama fantasy and colossal rock formation perch on the exposed ledges of north Curl Curl. Shot in less than five centimetres of water

Psychedelic inversion of sea flora washed into the shallows by a winter storm at Collaroy. Shot in less than five centimetres of water.