Lucy Trippett Photo Exhibition

Lucy Trippett is multi-talented: she is a film producer, production co-ordinator and photographer. Lucy has been diving in the world’s amazing oceans for 20 years, and for the past 16 years with Plankton Productions in the Coral Sea. 

Lucy’s extraordinary photos truly capture the wonder of ocean life. Lucy puts it all in perspective when she states:

 “When I first started diving years ago I thought fish were rather simple creatures that just swam contentedly around the sea. I can’t imagine thinking that now, having seen what I’ve seen.   Sea creatures can be inquisitive, elusive, wary, intimidating and often enormously entertaining.  I’ve seen cunning octopus spring out of crevices ambushing shrimps, sneaky anglerfish sidle up to prey as large as themselves and then gulp them whole, or little crabs peeking up at me supposedly incognito underneath their home made sponge hats". 

“Coral bombies I liken to a little underwater city - home to fish, crustaceans and slugs, all living, courting and often fighting amongst themselves.  The Coral Sea is like an underwater country with sharks, rays and whales cruising the highways.  Trips out there are special, in parts you can see what it must have been like all over our ocean years ago, it is so precious.  It’s hard to express how I feel about the ocean or the Coral Sea in words, but I hope I do through my photos”.