We wanted to get out of town and organized a last minute get away to one of my favorite spots in the planet. The Fresh Water Florida Springs. I announced a post on FB that we were going to be shooting in different locations if anyone wanted to show up to come an join us. It was hard for most people to pull it together last minute but I wanted to give my models the opportunity to at least try to make it. The post is below. Like any other last minute get-aways we didn't really check on weather and we only did when we were already on the road. Ha. rain was coming for saturday. Oh well lets get there...as long as there wasn't any lighting we could still shoot. We loaded the truck on ... read more

Steve left yesterday to Bonaire for a last minute diving trip. My dad was in town and we had a late night. I forced myself to wake up and go diving. I had trouble getting out of bed and getting out of the house on time. Luckily I found parking space just in front of the playground. I went in the water with no plan just to relax and to tke a photo of whatever…. I run into Judy and Diane and since they knew Steve was out of town and I was alone they invited my to join them. I’m glad they did because they showed me my favorite subject of today’s dive! Thanx girlz!!. On my own, I found a very uncooperative black sponge bob and showed it to Judy. But I think they ... read more

Click below to watch the video: http://youtu.be/exxVjz5Ssds All week I had been thinking about super macro video. I practiced dslr video settings shooting birds during the week I thought I was pretty mush ready to take the camera underwater. All I needed was to remember the tripod and an extra sola light. But ooops I got distracted in other proyects and I didn’t load my truck and forgot half of my gear. Once again my scuba shop hooked me up and saved my dive. My plan was to find any subject and get it sharp and with good lighting on video. So I split from the group and started in the algie area in front of the playground. Nothing there but when I was moving on I found a very curious Orange Pipefish hiding in the ... read more

I didn’t really looked at the tide tables and I got to the bridge pretty late. Even thought the ambient temperature was cold, the water looked pretty clear and since good conditions have been rare at the bridge lately I decided to brave the cold and go for a dive. I am still in a Costasiellas mode but someone that I didn’t know with a video camera was searching the spot so I decided to go elsewhere. I immediately saw a green touzema shrimp and I market with my stick but I took my eyes off it to change the f-stop and BAM! I never found it again. That would have been the find of the day : (. Then, I ended up in the pipes area and checked out on my neon green mantis shrimp ... read more

I had to go get the material to start my Divemaster training and I decided to get all my gear ready and check out the conditions at the bridge. If it was fine I was going in. I run into Sandra when I got there and we walked over the bridge to look at the water from there. It actually looked ok. We decided to join forces and go in together to look for the pipe horses since they are actually really hard to find. I swam on the surface to the spot and dropped from there. Sandra followed. I landed right on the spot next to the male pipehorse. I was so exited. I signaled Sandra to shoot it while I look for the female so each of us could have one. Instead I found ... read more