NE Divers - January @ St. Croix

[oceancurrent]

Thought someone may be interested ...
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Have you been thinking of escaping to a tropical island this winter?
Offering a rare mix of wall diving, wreck diving, and shore diving, St.
Croix is a wonderful choice.

This year's MIT/Tufts Scuba Club winter trip will be to the beautiful Virgin
Islands. St. Croix offers one of the most pristine shore and wall diving in
the Caribbean as well as dolphin, sharks, and ray encounters. Just like last
year, we are throwing unlimited shore diving and transportation on top of an
already incredible boat diving package. For first time, we will also include
in a free Nitrox class. Anyways, here are the details:

http://ase.tufts.edu/scuba/trips/stx/

P.S. The trip is open to anybody interested. There are 4 spots left. Ideal
for couples, graduate students, or professionals.

 

[oceancurrent]

On a separate note, here are some shots I took this summer at a few popular dive sites at Cape Ann. Any thoughts?

Old Garden (13 June 2004)

Folly Cove (16 June 2004)

Folly Cove (14 Aug 2004)

Poling/Burnham (11 Sept 2004)

 

[RIOceanographer]

Very nice pictures!

 

[aquageek]

What was your camera set-up for these pix? Look great

 

[oceancurrent]

Thanks, Chris.

Aquageek, my setup is a housed digital camera with strobe. Mainly:

Oly C-5050 Camera
PT-015 Housing
Sea'n'Sea YS-90DX Strobe

I've found this setup to be fairly good for macro photography, but quite limited for wide-angle shots. I suppose that one can get somewhat better results with a wide-angle lense, but I haven't gotten one yet.

The external strobe is necessary for New England. However, last January in Bonaire I worked all my macro shots with the internal strobe only, and they came out decent.

 

[waterkitty]

Niiiiiiice...keep up the great work! Did you take an underwater photography course?

 

[oceancurrent]

Niiiiiiice...keep up the great work! Did you take an underwater photography course?

Yay - another fan! I'm thrilled!!! :happywave

The only photo class I've taken was a few years back in college (bw / color). Luckily, the old principles of composition, lighting, depth of field, and so on, still apply when you move to a digital carrier and the UW medium. All I've done is read a book or two and attend a few talks with Andy Martinez and Bob Michelson. Too bad I get the camera wet only once in a blue moon - I dive primarily with OW/AOW students these days.

Hey, want to go to St. Croix? :monkeydan

 

[PeaceDog]

really, really, really awesome pictures. just excellent.

 

[oceancurrent]

really, really, really awesome pictures. just excellent.

10x. Anybody else on this forum interested in UW photo? It would be interesting to see some more pictures from this summer, if anybody has some...

 

[oceancurrent]

2 spots left...