alashas
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We honeymooned on Virgin Gorda in 1980, and just got back from celebrating our 30th anniversary in the BVI, 4 days on Jost Van Dyke and 7 on Virgin Gorda. 3 days before we left, I bought a Canon S90, Fisheye FIX Housing, adapter, Inon UWL 100 Wide Angle Conversion Lense, and Sea&Sea 110a Strobe, but did not have very much time to experiment with the camera until we go to the BVI, where I did 13 dives and 5 snorkels.
I was spoiled by the Oly SP350 with wide angle lense and Sea&Sea 110 that I bought from Cathy Church 3 yrs ago, and used the TTL setting for the strobe most of the time. When we got to the BVI, I realized I failed to pack the defuser for the strobe, and experimented quite bit with manual settings, but the photos are another story and Ill post some of those later.
I shot video for the first time while diving, and was very pleased with the results. The link below is at a dive site called the Chimney, in my opinion one of the most colorful dive sites in the Caribbean, and one of my all time favorite dive sites. It is also purported to have been Jacques Cousteaus favorite site in the BVI, because of the colorful sponges, including the unusual white encrusted sponges, and cup corals that adorn the walls of the chimney. On the west side of Great Dog Island, just off the island of Virgin Gorda, you enter the chimney through a coral encrusted archway which leads to a narrower crack in the bedrock. The crack is not enclosed on the top, so some sunlight comes through, exposing the colorful sponges and cup coral on both sides of the chimney. Once you swim through the chimney, you enter a large canyon with numerous colorful coral heads and schools of fish. We also saw a spotted eagle ray on this dive. I dove this site with Chris Blackwell, a highly regarding Dive Instructor, at Dive BVI http://www.divebvi.com/, and I make a cameo appearance in the video
>) Part way through the Chimney, I pass by, or, I should say, under, several divers from another dive boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHwZXFc20g
Once you dive through the chimney, there are a number of large coral heads on the way back to the dive boat. This colorful coral head provides shelter to schools of small fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qypKMSmbqU
Enjoy, alashas http://honeymoon2.smugmug.com/
I was spoiled by the Oly SP350 with wide angle lense and Sea&Sea 110 that I bought from Cathy Church 3 yrs ago, and used the TTL setting for the strobe most of the time. When we got to the BVI, I realized I failed to pack the defuser for the strobe, and experimented quite bit with manual settings, but the photos are another story and Ill post some of those later.
I shot video for the first time while diving, and was very pleased with the results. The link below is at a dive site called the Chimney, in my opinion one of the most colorful dive sites in the Caribbean, and one of my all time favorite dive sites. It is also purported to have been Jacques Cousteaus favorite site in the BVI, because of the colorful sponges, including the unusual white encrusted sponges, and cup corals that adorn the walls of the chimney. On the west side of Great Dog Island, just off the island of Virgin Gorda, you enter the chimney through a coral encrusted archway which leads to a narrower crack in the bedrock. The crack is not enclosed on the top, so some sunlight comes through, exposing the colorful sponges and cup coral on both sides of the chimney. Once you swim through the chimney, you enter a large canyon with numerous colorful coral heads and schools of fish. We also saw a spotted eagle ray on this dive. I dove this site with Chris Blackwell, a highly regarding Dive Instructor, at Dive BVI http://www.divebvi.com/, and I make a cameo appearance in the video
>) Part way through the Chimney, I pass by, or, I should say, under, several divers from another dive boat.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHwZXFc20g
Once you dive through the chimney, there are a number of large coral heads on the way back to the dive boat. This colorful coral head provides shelter to schools of small fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qypKMSmbqU
Enjoy, alashas http://honeymoon2.smugmug.com/
