[photo of diver (5Kb)] �@[bubbling anthia]
Photographing is fun.., diving is fun.. But photographing while diving is... well eh, sometimes it's a nightmare. It's wet, there's salt, there's sand. Not really what your precious micro-electronic camera loves. There's little light, diffusing plankton. You can't change your lens (as when you're patiently concentrating on that shrimp while your dive-partner is watching those mating whale-sharks). You can't change film (when you shot all your frames and, on your way up, at long last there's that nautilus you searched for all your life). But few things beat the excitement of seeing the resulting slides after a dive-trip, because that is when the colors reveal themselves in all their splendour. Someone, a non-diver, once asked: "can you actually SEE something underwater?" Well, here you are, if you don't forget your mask (yes, it happens), these are just some of the countless species you can see in all their beauty.
All pictures were taken using a housed SLR-camera, one or two strobes and different lenses. The original slides were transferred to photo-cd, resampled to a size that suits the lay-out and compressed to a level that compromises quality and loading speed. No drastic corrections were made, the pictures look fine on my monitor, I hope they're acceptable on yours. Permission to duplicate the photographs is granted for non-commercial use, provided that the original source be referenced. Even better: it's a small effort to send an email to ask and tell me what you want to use them for. I'd like to know. Finally, for all you divers out there: Happy Dives! Don't touch the living creatures (except maybe your buddy) in those underwater sanctuaries. Remember, it's....
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