I finally got back to the water after several weeks, and got to work out my new strobe again. I made a few new discoveries, one of which I have yet to identify. The first of these discoveries was a type of shrimp I had never seen before.
This set of shots is interesting, as it is the first set of shots I took with my new strobe! Yes, I finally got a strobe for my underwater rig, and I can already see the difference. I was really able to get some more dramatic light, and there is a significant difference in color.
Well, I got back at it this weekend. Felt good to finally be able to spend some time in the water and do some diving. The last month has been a real whirlwind
Well, this weekend was a get-back-to normal weekend after the big vacation to Corsica, and so I decided to get back to the old freediving club. I hadn’t been out with the club since about mid May, and I figured it was about time to actually do some serious training. My intentions were good, but after Read More …
We got back from Corsica on Monday night. All I can say is wow! What a paradise. We went scuba diving near St. Florent (Ludo Beach), The Cape of Corsica in the north, as well as near Calvi. We were supposed to have done one dive in Porto, farther south, but if got cancelled because of weather. The diving was good, especially near Calvi, but the best thing we did (and indeed one of the best things I’ve ever done on vacation) was to rent a boat out of Porto and cruise up the coast of the Scandola reserve, stopping to snorkel and freedive along the way.
The 20th of July will mark the one year anniversary of www.azur-diving.com. I started underwater photography just under one year ago, and it’s fun to think of all the things I’ve gotten to experience and see, courtesy of mother nature. The photos in this site represent only a small fraction of the beauty that mother nature has Read More …
The holiday weekend passed quickly and without anything extraordinary happening. I got a couple of nice shots in, but nothing as dramatic as last weekend…
Last weekend I mentioned that there were a lot of hermit crabs out, and kind of cried wolf on the invasion part, but this weekend the REAL invasion started with beaucoup jellyfish arriving near Cap D’Ail. I probably saw several hundred just this afternoon; more than I’ve ever seen in one day.
Okay, maybe it’s not an invasion, but I found a bunch of them chowing down on whatever they can scavenge. There are definitely more than usual out, and a good thing too, because these particular ones were pretty colorful once I got into macro range.
Had a nice family visit over the weekend, and took a couple of my cousins out snorkeling. They loved it. They had never done it before, and they just thought checking out all the wildlife was amazing. We saw a cuttlefish (I got him to spray ink for the boys), saw some scorpionfish, and I found my first ever lobster (pic below). Read More …