Scuba photos from Utila

[Sloeber]

Silversides (Food!) in the shallows as I prepare to exit on a shore dive.

I always have a tough time photographing a Blackcap Basslet. They are not exactly common, until they are - and they are everywhere for a brief few fin kicks. But my camera always wants to focus on the background and not the fish, and getting a Blackcap Basslet far enough away from the wall to get a mid-column shot is near impossible.

This neat little guy is a free-swimming Whitefin Sharksucker aka Remora. There was actually a pair of them. In dives past these fish will occasionally attach to the air tank of divers, but in this instance the pair just played together mindless of the 3 divers around them.

A particularly colorful Trumpetfish.

A Porcupine Puffer. I ran into, ur, uhm, swam into several of these during the week. They were all quite large.

These guys are always cute to watch. Adult Smooth Trunkfish hover around like spaceships from outer space, while the juveniles get tossed around by the currents. There may not be a fish that is worse at swimming than baby trunks.

 

[Sloeber]

A few Scrawled Filefish paid me a visit as well. Always nice to see one or two over a week.

The Tobaccofish is another one of those fishes that is fairly common, yet I have been unable to get a decent photo of before now.

Token wormfish photo from the trip. So many divers ignore these guys, but I always pay them a visit when I see them. Their head-bobbing is somewhat comical and it is always a challenge to get up close for a decent photo without them retreating into their holes.

A Yellow Stingray hiding from me. I was happy to find this guy as I was peeking underneath the rocks. Then moments later I stumbled across another free swimming the sand.

A teenie-tiny juvenile Drum. Just love spotting these guys.

And finally, one day of diving we were joined by Tec Divers. Freelance travel writer Brooke Morton was doing her introduction to Tec Diving course, so I took the opportunity to snap a few pictures.

That's all folks. Hope you enjoyed the photos. If you'd like to see more please check out my scuba photo directory for a list of trips and photos. Thanks!

 

[Sloeber]

Thanks Henry... I am a huge fan of the French Angel... I hope you will add where you stayed and dove with... Would you use them again and such....

lee

Yeah, I will be doing a trip report in the coming day or two. Stay tuned.

 

[Didje]

Thanks for the amazing pics! You rock!

 

[hdtran]

Beautiful photos!

What's your typical equipment? Did you use a strobe?

Thanks!

 

[Madvelazquez]

Great pics

 

[silvernotch]

amazing pictures! Thank you so much for posting! I only have 79 days left and counting!!

 

[Doc]

nice.

 

[azclay]

Incredible photos. Thank you for sharing!

 

[DeepBlueResort]

Great Photos, well done.