Photo Friday – From Nature

Photo Friday – From Nature

This weeks Photo Friday: “From Nature” This Blue Dragon Nudibranch was in the perfect position and I spent a lot of time with it on this dive in the Bligh Waters off Rakiraki in Fiji. Called the Blue Dragon in our part of the world (because of its...

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 – 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.