Deep South Red Sea Trip

At the end of June I joined the lads and lasses from Sunderland Scuba Centre on the Blue Horizon where were dived at St Johns, Fury Shoals and Elphinestone.

We had a fantastic week of diving, usually 4 a day starting at dawn (*eek!*) and finishing with a night dive (when I didn't bottle it!)

The crew and guides, Dray, Chris and Karin were fantastic, Dray in particular giving me the heads up on which lens would be best for each of the dive sites I visited. They told me where I could try and find the interesting stuff I was looking for (although the rare sighting of a Chris Spanish Dancer wasn't quite what I had in mind!)

Jonathan turned from wreck head to fabulous photo subject spotter and HUGE thanks to him for his patience, especially at the Gorgonian Fans on Elphinstone when he was one side coaxing the Long Nosed Hawkfish through the otherside to me with my camera!!

I've posted one of the pics I took of the tugboat wreck at Fury Shoals, a great subject with masses of hard and soft corals growing.

Hola!

Welcome to my blogspot - my narcissistic place for posting what I am up to!

I have a dream *cue the moosic* to dive and photograph the worlds greatest underwater phenomenon, such as the coral spawing after the new moon in Bonnaire, the Sardine run in June / July time off South Africa.

Obviously whilst I have a full time job in the UK I'm spending most of my time researching locations and phenomenon and getting in the water at all and any opportunity trying to improve my photography skills - something that looks really easy but I'm finding pretty hard to get the results I am aiming for! If anyone has any comments or has a great dive experience to share, please post up your comments and experiences.

So for the time being this will probably (as long as it works and I can sort out the techmonology!) be a gallery of my learning process... So please, feel free to offer any comments on my photos and what you think would improve them.