Scuba Diver Life
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Heading along a fixed transit line to the wreck of the HMAS Brisbane, the wreck only visible in the last 10m, so around 30m of open ocean to traverse from the mooring line. Ilford XP2 Super 400
This image (the blue and the "rays") is a left over from the Twirl effects some of us did last year. This is before you twirl the rays. It occurred to me that it looked like the underwater scenes we see on TV when scuba divers look up into the sun.
I added some sea life as follows:
Real jellyfish from Iceland
A dried seahorse, layers multiplied. Don't ask me why I have a dried seahorse, I have had it forever and I don't know where it came from.
Fish that started out as an orange glass fish in the eclectic garden, also 3 copied three times.
The whale fluke is a pendant which I didn't use for the "nothing in focus" theme for Smile on Saturday. I thought it looked quite good underwater :)
Diving into the dephts of The Bay is as fun...as dangerous!
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At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.
Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work!
Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.
Underwater photography of scuba divers exploring the wonderful reef and corals of Ras Mohamed nature reserve. Shot with HTC RE
Tasked with utilising the inventory of 75262 Sith TIE fighter (to supplement parts from my own collection), I chose to use a pair of the new pointy 2x4 wedge plates as the basis of a Mandalorian helmet. Except I opted for something a little more aquatic - surely some Mandalorian water planet exists that justifies this unique variant! ;D
More about the model & my thoughts on the set here: www.newelementary.com/2020/06/lego-star-wars-review-75272...
It was interesting to watch these learner Scuba divers in the shallows of the clear blue waters off the Portsea Pier. The beach behind is the opposite side of the pier, closer to the eastern part of the curve that leads to the Heads. Portsea has a large number of wealthy inhabitants and a lovely Portsea Hotel that overlooks the pier and the yachts moored nearby.
It is possible that one day I will swim past one of these without taking a photo, but it seems unlikely.
This monster is almost a meter in diameter. The spots on the mantle are light sensitive so it can shut a bit for predators, but they can never completely close. The mantle colours are the real treat: purples and greens and yellows and reds. Sometimes blue.
Entry to Andrew's Contest... With some editing :P
Also sorry for the bad photo.. My good(er) camera broke :"(
Scuba instructor Bonnie Harrison poses on a boat at Pacific Scuba in Oxnard, Calif., Monday morning, Dec. 8, 2008. (robin e. Vallentyne, ©2008.)
I've never seen turtles so frequently as in the reefs around Bunaken, and not just at this specific dive site.
Wikipedia: Bunaken National Park was formally established in 1991 and is among the first of Indonesia's marine parks. In 2005 Indonesia submitted an application to UNESCO for including the park on the World Heritage List.
Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas
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05 Feb 1947, Orlando, Florida, USA --- 2/5/1947-Orlando, FL: A sand shark observes an underwater ping pong game at marine studios. (See Notes) --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS