200th Dive at Littlehampton

2 fantastic dives from Our Joy in Littlehampton yesterday. First dive was a 28m wreck the Ramsgarth which was stunning! I have never seen such large schools of bib before, shame I had the macro lens on!!

I've been having problems with the camera not being able to change F stops when in manual mode meaning I either had to shoot in AV mode and over here most of my shots were coming out blurred where the shutter speeds were too slow or shoot in manual on just one F stop setting (usually the wrong one too!) So last week I spent some time playing around with the camera and housing after getting some advice from various people and was fairly sure, as a result, that i'd sorted the selction process.

I wouldn't have usually taken the camera on a dive when diving as a buddy three but I was desperate to see if I'd sorted the problem so made a plan with my buddies to shoot only a couple of pics to see the results.

And I'm pleased to say I think I have sorted the problem which is really exciting! I only took 10 quick shots in total but am pretty pleased with the results :o) I can't wait to get back down to Swanage pier or another dive where I can mooch around to give some serious shots a go.

Second dive was a fairly rapid drift which I didn't have my camera for - typical, first time I saw mermaids purses, a couple of large dogfish and a beautiful undulate ray - awesome diving!

Anyway, please let me know what you think of the photos in "comments" :o)