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Gallery: Amazing images of Bondi Beach

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 01:12 PM PST

Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, has increasingly become a brand: beers, television and real estate agents use it romantically.

The real Bondi can be hard to discover, but that has become the job of Aquabumps photographer Eugene Tan. 

His shots have sold Bondi to the world more than a real estate agent ever could. His photography website gets 40,000 visits a day. Seventy percent of customers who visit his beach-side gallery are from overseas.

"The first thing tourists do is come straight to Bondi Beach," says Tan, who migrated from Perth 15 years ago. "When I started living in Bondi I was quite overwhelmed by it."

"They love the beach, they love the light," he says. "The beach is the focus of so many things."

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