Posts Tagged ‘snorkling’

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.

Bought me a Canon G11 with underwaterhousing (housings for my 400D were way to overpriced here at Curacao, and importing one is a rather big hassle).

I’m actually pretty impressed by the image quality the G11 produces, considering it is just a point and shoot camera (well, one with tons of possibilities, but still).

The subject on the pictures here are greenbones. Pretty funny fish to watch, a bit of a joke by mother nature (or if there is a God, maybe he drank a bit too much while designing these creatures). The name is also cool. In English you call them hornpike or greenbone. The greenbone part is the coolest. These fish have real green bones ! But even weirder is, that if you catch one of these, make filet of them, after a few days in the freezer, the meat turns all green (no idea why this happens, but still pretty cool huh ?).