Photo Friday – Fiery

This weeks Photo Friday: “Fiery” A Firebrick Starfish underwater at White Island, New Zealand. A starfish called Asterodiscides truncatus (described in 1911) is “the fire brick starfish” because of the very fiery colored, brick-like tubercles...

Photo Friday – In the Wild

This weeks Photo Friday: “In the Wild” A silvertip shark swims past me in Bega Lagoon, Fiji. My first shark dive.  Photographed with a Nikon D300 and a Tokina 10-17mm fish eye lens. The fish eye lens means you need to get close – really close.  There...

Photo Friday – High Tech

This weeks Photo Friday: “High Tech” The knobs and valves of my manifold on my twinset. A twinset, twin steel tanks banded together with a manifold set to fully open (the diver breathes from both tanks at the same time) or closed (the diver breathes from...

Photo Friday – Autumn 2013

This weeks Photo Friday: “Autumn 2013” We have already had our Autumn for 2013 – it was back near the start of the year. Summer stretched itself out for as long as it could into those autumn months leaving us with warm still...

Photo Friday – Heavenly

This weeks Photo Friday: “Heavenly” Shafts of sunlight twinkle through the blue and I am floating. I could have wings as I feel like I am flying. I look up to the sun, a bright orb above us.  I am a diver and I am in my heaven.