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Underwater Photo Pro: Gil Woolley

| Published On January 8, 2014
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View above a tornado of barracuda (Sphyraena qenie) shot at the end of a dive off Sipadan Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A swimmer dips below the surface off the aptly named One Tree Island in the Maldives.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

Thorny seahorse (Hippocampus hystrix) in Timor Leste, Indonesia.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A baby green turtle (Chelonia mydas) released from the hatchery at Mataking Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A pair of mating green turtles (Chelonia mydas); rival males are ready to compete for the female. Sipadan Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

Pontoh's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus pontohi), in Manado, Indonesia.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

Tinfoil barb (Barbonymus schwanenfeldii) in a river in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A pair of magnificent shrimpgobies (Flabelligobius sp) displaying at Pandanan Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A young boy learning to spearfish in the shallow waters off Bohayan Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

A pair of Coleman shrimp (Periclimenes colmani) in the spines of a sea urchin. Off Gaya Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

White-tip reef shark, (Triaenodon obesus) swimming through a school of big-eye trevally (Caranx sexasciatus) at Sipadan Island, Malaysian Borneo.

Gil Woolley/Scubazoo

This week’s photo pro is living proof that it’s never too late to pick up a camera and get into scuba diving.

Gil Woolley is a photographer, publisher and library manager for Scubazoo Images. He has been involved with natural history imagery for the past 17 years as an editor, creative director and photographer, now based in Sabah on the island of Borneo.

For more on Gil check out his story HERE.