Blogs from Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, North America - page 3

Lately I have been having a weird feeling of being lost in the crowd. I feel like taking the same pictures of the same critters with the same lens on similar cameras has become a routine, all the photos look the same and it’s boring after a while. The fact that everything that I shot today I have never seen before made this dive the coolest dive of the weekend. The morning light was stunning. I was surrounded by lots of shinnies and I wished I had spent time using the video mode. I saw a couple of needle nose fish in the surface feeding on them. I watch them hunt. Pretty amazing. I started to feel the connection I thought was gone. There were about 4 small frilly seahorses in the grass. Sort of small ... read more

Bored of froggies, blennies, seahorses, batfish, searobins, jawfish, nudis…I was in a mood for something different to shoot. I didn’t make it far. I spotted a school of 30 or so Snook. I waved bye to my buddy and signaled him that I was going to stay with the fish. I heard a dolphin giggling around. I looked up but didn’t see any thing and after a while I heard a splash and a silhouette of a tail swimming away. That made my dive!. I lay down on the sand observing the path of the snook. They traveled around a specific area in a circle. I position my self in different areas and tried to surprise them. A couple yawned. I guess all fish yawn. Catching the fish by surprise didn’t go to well. I decided ... read more

I was up late last night organizing my head and I totally missed the alarm clock so I had a late start on my dive. I saw a trumpet fish swimming up in the water column. Then I shot that lovely black froggie that was very used to strobes flashing. I was getting an ugly shadow on the one side and only after a while I figure out the power was uneven initially I thought it was bad positioning or that the wire had gone bad again. Good learning experience. But froggie wouldn’t yawn for my camera anymore. Then I spend the time testing a +10 Subsee diopter and I am still getting soft result from f32 to f40. Can’t compare it to the new one I just lost in the Caymans. L Photos of small ... read more

I dove west with no compass. Mine mysteriously disappeared from my housing. I saw some hovering gobies, nudis everywhere but the find of the night was 3 “Deb’s” shrimp on a red sponge. 2 were smaller than the other ones. I did a short dive. Leaving 2000psi on the 100c for the next day.... read more

Today I had a very relax dive. Judy showed me a tiny tiny seahorse and a nudi that looked like a Nodosa with no eggs. I had Steve’s close up lens because I lost mine and couldn’t get used to it. I moved west and found hovering gobies everywhere. One of them looked pregnant and I watched a few come out of the same hole. I lost Linda and Deb because I stayed behind trying to shoot the gobies. That was fun. Then I saw a green dworfy and I called Lureen to it. I continued my dive towards the sergeant mayor eggs at the bottom of the pilings towards the south edge and tried to shoot the fish fanning the eggs. Then I checked the wall and nudi world but I didn’t find anything different. ... read more