http://seaimages.org/log Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:10:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en p.MsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Arial”,”sans-serif”; color:black; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; } a:link {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; } .style2 { text-align: center; } .style3 { border-width: 0px; } .style4 { font-size: small; } .style5 { font-size: small; font-family: Arial; text-align: left; } I did a trip with some friends where we flew into Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula. We spent two days of land-based diving at Cabo Pulmo, followed by a liveaboard trip ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=26 I spent three days in February snorkeling with manatees at Crystal River, FL. The town is easy to reach—only about 1.5 hours by car north of the Tampa airport—the only annoyance being the five $1.00 tolls you have to pay EACH WAY on Highway 589. Even the Golden Gate Bridge ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=25 I spent a few days in early February checking out the northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) that migrate down to CA beaches each winter. They come from as far north as Alaska for the females to give birth and the males to fight for mating rights to produce next year’s ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=24 Dive in Canada during January? Well, maybe not as crazy an idea as you might think. Our destination was Hornby Island, which is about 80 miles NW of Vancouver—the “Miami Beach” of Canada. Or so it was described to me by my friend & photo pro Jon Cornforth, http://www.cornforthimages.com, who ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=23 .style2 {font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;} .style3 { text-align: center;} .style4 { text-align: left;} .style5 { border-width: 0px;} I accompanied friends Skip Stubbs and Phil Colla to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge for a few days starting in late November. Bosque del Apache means "woods of the Apache" and was named by the Spanish ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=22 Back in August, I realized I hadn’t done a dive trip this year (snorkeled with sailfish & whale sharks in Mexico and took surface shots of humpbacks in Alaska, but only one tank dive all year). So I booked a week on the Kona Aggressor–a liveaboard dive boat which operates ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=21 Technically, we were on the water for three days, but all the images you see in this blog post were taken on Sunday, August 10th. I was privileged to be invited to spend a week with pro photographers Jon Cornforth (www.cornforthimages.com) and Stuart Westmorland (www.stuartwestmorland.com) on Jon’s boat, cruising the waters ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=20 I went to Holbox Island (say "hole-bosh"–the "x" in Mayan is pronounced "sh") to snorkel with whale sharks. The sharks are there from mid-June to early September each year to feed in the plankton-rich waters. This was somewhat similar to my last trip in February in that it was land-based ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=19 I was “land-based” for this trip–on Isla Las Mujeres–about a 15 minute ferry ride from Cancun, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Every year around January-March sardines migrate north from off the coast of Brazil to feed on an upwelling of plankton about 40-50 miles from shore at the Isla Mujeres ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=18 I did a three-week dive trip to Indonesia in Sept-October, which was very capably arranged by my friend Drew Wong. For those of you who are geographically challenged like me, Indonesia is a republic in Southeast Asia consisting of more than 17,000 islands spread over 3,000 miles. It is ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=17 .style1 { font-family: Arial; font-size: 2; } .style2 { text-decoration: none; } I went back for my "Fourth Annual" with Jim Abernethy’s Scuba Adventures in May, again looking for shark photo opportunities (scroll down on this blog to see the reports on the Third and Second Annual Shark Fest trips). Why did I do it again? For ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=16 May 3 -11, 2006 Hi folks! I went back to the Bahamas last month to take shark images for the third time in three years with the same dive operator, and while all these trips have been very good (hence my repeat visits), this one was the best trip yet! The ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=14 January and February, 2006 Hi folks! In January and February I took a couple of three-day trips with friends Skip Stubbs and Phil Colla to Piedras Blancas, CA to visit a rookery of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) and observe the annual birthing/breeding season. Piedras Blancas is located about eight miles ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=13 MADANG TO WEWAK SEPTEMBER 14 TO OCTOBER 4, 2005 Hi folks! I was recently on the Golden Dawn, a live-aboard dive boat in Papua New Guinea. This was my fourth trip to PNG, and by far the least productive, photographically. We were plagued by bad weather, and the boat’s owner/captain had opted ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=11 I’m pleased to blog that I was awarded the Grand Prize in the 2005 photo contest put on annually by Popular Photography Magazine. The contest had ten categories on all subject matter, using any type of camera equipment. It received more than 10,000 entries from around the world. I was in ... http://seaimages.org/log/?p=10