Here is a link to a recent piece (and short video) that describes some wild and wooly current dives I’ve done, as well as some strategies for managing diving in big currents.
You’ll find the article and video here —–> Gone With The Wind – Diving in Big Currents
Where do the months go? I’ve recently returned from a dive trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, and have been bagging a few cold water shore dives closer to home, but have been neglecting the blog, bigtime.
One of these days, I’ll get back to making regular entries, but in the meantime, here is a link to my most recent piece for the magazine – all about Palau.
Click here to take you to the magazine gallery and write up.
And, if you really want to dig in, here is a write up I did on the blog, on my return from the trip, in March.
The months continue to gallop by and the blogging has taken a back seat to other more pressing concerns – like finishing building a house, moving into it, and selling the old house. It’s been a wild, busy, crazy ride, but finally we’re here. New home, new chapter…
Here is a link to June’s piece for Scuba Diving Magazine – all about naughty, thoughtless, careless divers.
And check out Scubadiving.com’s very much new and improved website!
I am still playing catch up with linking my most recent publications ;^). This link will bring me up to date, and I will endeavour to link recent work on a more timely basis. The topic of my next article to be published by Scubadiving Magazine later this month is a bit, er, controversial.
Last month’s gallery and article was all about diving at Wakatobi Resort, in Indonesia. It is a lovely place, with some extraordinarily healthy coral reefs nearby. I wrote a comprehensive trip report last year upon my return – you will find it here.
To view the gallery and shorter article recently published by Scuba Diving Magazine, follow this link.
I am woefully behind in linking my recent work for Scuba Diving Magazine.
So here is a link to March’s piece – all about underwater animals that are great at camouflage…
Back from Germany, and back at my laptop. I traveled to Germany with just an iPad (and iPhone for camera – data roaming is stupid expensive, so I kept it in airplane mode for the duration). The iPhone camera pretty much rocks (except in high contrast light). And I seriously love the pano function. But no can shoot manual settings with a point and shoot phone…
So here I find myself in Germany once again. Mr G has business here, and a couple of times a year, for board meeting weeks when other wives/spouses are included, I make the trek with him.
In past blogs I have written a bit about Berlin – a fascinating and handsome city which has a rich (and tragic) history. On this trip, for reasons not necessary to yarn on about, we are only spending a couple of days in Berlin. On the front end, we arrived in Frankfurt, where we picked up a rental car (diesel BMW sedan) and drove to Weimar – which is pretty much in the center of the country, and which also enjoys an interesting history.
A beautiful beach on Ulong Island – where Survivor Palau and Survivor Micronesia were filmed.
I returned last week from a 10 day trip to Palau. It was Mr G’s and my first visit to this diver mecca. We enjoyed three days on land at the beginning of the trip, diving two of those days with Sam’s Tours, and doing a land excursion on the other. We then met up with some of the usual suspects for a week aboard the Palau Tropic Dancer live aboard.
The island nation of Palau is located about 500 miles east of the Philippine Islands, at about the same latitude, and despite being close neighbours (geographically speaking) these islands are very different, in many ways. And whereas the Philippines were, for me, mostly about the wonderful macro life, Palau is more about big animals and interesting reef formations.
I am working today on this month’s piece for Scuba Diving Magazine and thought I’d take a quick break to blurt a blog and share another shot from the Philippines trip – the library of images through which I am surfing to find stuff that fits this month’s theme – critters that hide in plain sight.
Okay, I’ll confess – I think I have a (slightly) obsessive personality. Fortunately, the stuff I tend to obsess over is generally pretty positive. I don’t obsess about my weight, our kids, money, cleanliness, nor, the biggie these days – aging (although I have to suppress regret about all the sun worshipping I did when I was young and stupid – as an example I used to go Spring skiing with baby oil slathered on my face! What a doofus!).
Man, two image blogs in a week? I am on a roll ;^)
This is another shot I captured last Fall in the Philippines. On this part of the trip, we were still doing some land-based muck diving out of Atlantis Dumaguete Resort, before boarding the Atlantis Azores live aboard for a week of exploring and diving a portion of the southeast Philippines.
One site in particular kept coughing up some incredible stuff – blue ring octopus, poison ocellate octopus, several pairs of flamboyant cuttlefish, hairy frogfish, pipefishes, and this – a Napoleon Snake Eel, which I luckily caught mid-yawn.
Well, here I am again, after a very long hiatus from blogging.
Last week I posted a link to a piece I wrote about a trip to the Philippines, which was just published in Scuba Diving Magazine.
I had to pretty ruthlessly curate the many images I captured on the trip, to pare it down to 20 or so underwater shots that I thought fairly represented the highlights of the diving we did. I have many more that I think (hope) are worthy of sharing, and I thought I would start with this, a Nembrotha kurbayana nudibranch.
Here is a link to February’s submission for Scuba Diving Magazine. In this piece I review the Atlantis Dumaguete Resort, as well as the Atlantis Azores live aboard, and share some information and images from what was a great trip.
I loved the Philippines and will definitely be looking to do more trips to this part of the world.
At the beginning of January, the editors at Scuba Diving Magazine tasked me with curating my library of images and pulling out a dozen or so of my favourites. In addition, they wanted me to give them some background about me. I stalled and procrastinated, and stalled some more. In the immortal words of Shirley Valentine, I’ve lead such a little life. Trying to share some background that would be of interest to my Scuba Diving Magazine audience was not so easy for me.
Anyhoo, I finally got ‘er done, and this is what I coughed up…
I am very behind in blogging my Scuba Diving Magazine monthly features. In fact, I am very behind in blogging. Period. My bad.
This past year has been a wild and crazy journey in building a house. It has kept me very very busy – so much so that the blog, and almost everything else that is non-essential has dropped to the wayside.
Now that we are almost all settled in, I hope to get back to blogging with more regularity. Today I will blast up three links to recent work for the magazine. One of these days, when the dust finally settles, I hope to find some time to write more detail and vignettes about the trip to the Philippines we took last fall, and to share more pics than those I had published this month in the mag.
Here was December’s submission – all about baby critters under the sea. Lately I have been grooving on finding eggs and juveniles. Who knows what the next obsession, er, focus will be ;^)
The months fly by…
Here is November’s submission for Scuba Diving Magazine. I love these expressive little fish, but they are tough to shoot! The essay accompanying the gallery shares some information about these fascinating creatures.
Here is a link to my October submission for Scuba Diving Magazine – this one featuring a variety of eels – some of them spooky enough for Hallowe’en 🙂
Here is a link to September’s contribution to Scuba Diving Magazine – this photo essay is all about the thrill of diving with big schools of fish.
You’ll find it here —> School Daze
Here is a link to my August instalment for Scuba Diving Magazine. This photo essay is all about slowing down on your dive to look for the little stuff. I offer tips on how, where and what to look for, as well as how to capture good images.
It’s been a while since I cooked up a juicy blog post, but with a small gallery of iPhone images sitting in the hopper on my desktop, a complete dearth of diving over the past many months, and a rainy day outside, I thought I would share a day in the life of a London tourist.
