Fantastic Shots with the Sony RX100
Oct 11
One of our readers, Kevin Stokell, recently sent in a couple example images taken with the newly released Sony RX100. Kevin lives and works in Curacao, in the South Caribbean, where he works as a PADI Divemaster and has plenty of opportunity to get out and shoot. Here’s the details on his shots: The Banded Coral Shrimp “The shot of the Banded Coral Shrimp (above) was taken at the...
Diving a WWI German U-Boat
Oct 10
Anyone who has been in the water in the last couple weeks knows southern California has had some of the best dive conditions in some time. As we all know this can always change at the drop of a hat so I have been in the water as much as possible. I had the opportunity to join some friends on a dive boat, to visit a rather fascinating wreck named the UB-88 last weekend. The UB-88 is a German...
Be A Good Student
Oct 09
…and take notes. Remember those days? With all the aspects of underwater photography to remember (e.g. macro, wide-angle, silhouettes, lighting, and on, and on…), I decided early on to keep a journal of my adventures as an underwater photographer. This allows me to make notes after an experience, good or bad, and refer back to them before my next outing. For example, after a...
Sea Spiders in San Diego
Oct 08
I love it when I experience a “first” as a diver. This past Saturday I enjoyed my first dives at Point Loma in San Diego, and I spotted my first sea spider (Anoplodactylus species). I only knew they existed after perusing the LA Diving Field Guide countless times in search of ID’s of other critters for which I needed a name. The sea spider was the very first subject I locked...
Thousands of Bat Rays!
Oct 01
On the fourteenth of September, during the SoCal shootout, Andy, Patrick and Cindy went out in search of getting some shots to submit to the contest. Little did they know, they were in for quite an amazing experience. They had run into a huge Mola mola on the way down to Redondo Beach to dive, a mile or two off the shore of Hermosa Beach. Around the same spot on their way back, they started...
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