the photographer and the sea

Well first of all: major thanks to my little brother for lending me his canon ixus with an underwaterhousing !

I have passed my final PADI-exam about a week ago but sadly didn’t spend any time on trying to take pictures (there was so much beautiful stuff to see on the reef, but I wanted to focus on learning my dive skills as good as possible Also my floating abilities aren’t up to par really yet so stuff like going for a nice composition are still reall hard to achieve).

Anyways: here a small collection I made today while snorkling with a few friends.

1. here everything worked out just fine, using a bit of flash, a bit of luck and managing to release the shutter at a pretty decent moment

2. well here it worked out a bit worst ;P Just an example why you actually want a really decent flash in stead of using the onboard one :/

3. nop, this is NOT Dory from Finding Nemo. They swim around here in pretty massive schools. Just one gigantic blue flash, lovely to watch

4. the result of swimming head on into a school of fish, evasive moves all over the place.

5. same school of fish, just the other side (and tons of debree in the water)

6. can’t recall the name of these buggers, but the pattern on their side is just amazing to gaze at, so join me in gazing

7. macro of a little wormlike creature, crawling over the bottom.