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On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
This is the first Pederson I've seen at the bridge. (Oops, also saw one over in the "sponge garden")
Juvenile Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
Lactophrys trigonus. I'd never been able to get a shot of one of the buffalo trunkfish (at this stage of development) with it facing me. This guy happened to be chasing a little critter along the bottom towards me and didn't notice me until it was too late. :-) These guys look *so* different at each stage - from orange to gray to green to grayish brown and from spherical to angular - a most fascinating species (to me). All the younger versions - in their varying colors and shapes - seem to also match up with something in the area to mimic closely. As best I can recall, every one of them that I've seen (at every stage) has been within a couple acre area at the bridge - between the bridge and the channel, and between the west entry area and about the third piling to the west.
On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
Atlantic Spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
This is the first Pederson I've seen at the bridge. (Oops, also saw one over in the "sponge garden")
Juvenile Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans)
This is the first Pederson I've seen at the bridge. (Oops, also saw one over in the "sponge garden")
Juvenile Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
This is the first Pederson I've seen at the bridge. (Oops, also saw one over in the "sponge garden")
Juvenile Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
This is the first Pederson I've seen at the bridge. (Oops, also saw one over in the "sponge garden")
Juvenile Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
i just wasn't fast enough to catch him with his mouth all the way opened :-(
Spotted Scorpionfish (Scorpaena plumieri)
had only ever run across blue dartfish at the bridge one time and couldn't get a shot of the pair. ran into three different batches of them this week - on both the east and west sites
On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-( yellow stingray
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On this four day trip down to the Jerry Williams Memorial Bridge, my strobe batteries wore down before the ends of the dives the first two days, so I started also carrying my next oldest camera and box sans strobes. That can work out sort of “OK” if the sun is out and yer not under a structure in the shade and the viz is good and you don’t have to crank the ISO way up and you don’t put an old kit lens on it and you don’t have to set it on “auto” and let the camera decide for you where to focus, but none of those was the case. So, I’ll just throw these two dives into one pile as a reminder for what can happen if I delay the purchase of replacement strobe battery packs too long. Turns out the new packs recycle even faster and hold *lots* more firings. Looks like I could even leave the modeling lights on and not run out of juice on a long dive with the new ones. Sadly, they also mean new chargers, as my old ones will burn up the new Lithium Ion versions. :-(
Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana)
Full size/resolution photos: markus.kivela@viapori.fi,
Copyright: Markus Kivelä 2017,
All photo albums:
www.flickr.com/photos/curtainhouse/albums
Facebook:
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Matkablogi "Hiekkaa kengissäni":
Full size/resolution photos: markus.kivela@viapori.fi,
Copyright: Markus Kivelä 2017,
All photo albums:
www.flickr.com/photos/curtainhouse/albums
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/Nuuskamuikkunen
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