Category Archives: Underwater Photos

Top Photos from Today’s Dives

Today’s dives with Sea Rovers at Menjangan were fantastic, although the first one didn’t start off so well. Right after jumping in at Eel Garden, I was adjusting my strobe arms when my modeling light fell off. It started sinking fast, but this new piece of equipment cost me close to 500 bucks, so I

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Top Photos from Today’s Dive

Today I accompanied Captain Paul, owner of Sea Rovers, with an Advanced Open Water student doing her deep dive at Temple Garden here in Pemuteran. We had great conditions–mild current, warm water and decent visibility.  I’m still struggling with keeping the sand/backscatter out of the photos in my wide angle shots–it doesn’t help that I’m probably

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Creature Feature–Sand Shrimpgoby and Shrimp

One of the joys of diving for me is learning about and trying to photograph behavior. Today’s photos are not really portfolio-worthy, but they show the interesting relationship between the sand shrimpgoby and the shrimp they share a home with. These two creatures are symbiotic (meaning their interaction benefits both of them). The gobies stand guard while

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First macro shots with new camera – Pemuteran

Macro photography is really my passion, so I was thrilled when there was space available with Sea Rovers to take the morning local dive trip to Pemuteran Bay. I used the Olympus 60mm macro lens and flipped the Subsea 10x diopter into place for a few of the shots. Having the flip adapter is so

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First shots with the new camera in Menjangan

It’s been a really long time since I had a proper wide angle lens and two strobes, and since the guys at Sea Rovers had a spot on their Menjangan boat, I thought this would be good baptism for my new system. The lovely walls of Dreamland and Pos II Belok Kiri provided many photogenic subjects, which is

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