The continuing sagas of the Blue Heron Bridge

[sportxlh]

here's a couple of attempts at still pictures from the bridge.

ScubaBoard Gallery - blue heron bridge photos lobster in coral
ScubaBoard Gallery - blue heron bridge photos spotted moray
ScubaBoard Gallery - blue heron bridge photos banded shrimp
ScubaBoard Gallery - blue heron bridge photos sea cucumber

 

[fisheyeview]

You should be very proud of your Zip Loc pictures. Who knows where you will end up. David Doubilet started out with an old Brownie camera in a home made rubber bag off the Jersey shore.

Well, inspired by all you photographers and for the pure joy of fish watching, I headed to BHB this past Thursday morning. Since I don't own any fancy underwater photography equip. I armed myself with my "land" point-and-shoot Samsung S730 in the glorified zip-lock bag that is the DiCaPac waterproof pouch. (I was hoping none of the serious photographers saw me using this, but dang it I wanted to take some pictures.) After a little necessary color balancing and contrast tweaking at the post production end, some of the pics didn't turn out half bad. Here are some of them:

Red-tipped Fireworm

Banded Coral Shrimp "out on a limb"

Goldspot Goby

Seaweed Blenny

Sharpnose Puffer

A male Pearly Razorfish

A terminal phase Stoplight Parrotfish

And finally the one that made my day (thank you Anne from REEF for pointing me in the right direction.) The Striated Frogfish

OK one more, color not great but was happy to stumble on to this underwater barber shop: "A little off the top?"

 

[mksmith713]

Yeah, hack the page.......LOL
I was looking at NOAA's 2008 tide chart.
Not much use now.........LOL
Needless to say, the conditions were less than favorable @ 4 PMish....

 

[Sully3]

just some older bhb photos i thought were pretty interesting.
finger for scale on the searobin
matt

 

[tiggrr]

That Juvi Leopard Sea Robin is very interesting/cool.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Sully3]

That Juvi Leopard Sea Robin is very interesting/cool.

Thanks for sharing.

thanks

 

[oceanbound]

great photos!

 

[Sully3]

great photos!

thanks again

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

You should be very proud of your Zip Loc pictures. Who knows where you will end up. David Doubilet started out with an old Brownie camera in a home made rubber bag off the Jersey shore.

That's very close to the zip-bag concept.

The bag is very cost effective for shallow dives. Anyone who can adjust their white balance can become proficient on shallow dives with them. I looked at one time thinking about taking the DSLR to BHB... Then I thought... expensive camera, and cheap bag... hmmmm

livi, Sully, Sport... nice pics
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Oh, did everyone see... I hate oceanbound! (damn toadfish finder!)

 

[Sully3]

That's very close to the zip-bag concept.

The bag is very cost effective for shallow dives. Anyone who can adjust their white balance can become proficient on shallow dives with them. I looked at one time thinking about taking the DSLR to BHB... Then I thought... expensive camera, and cheap bag... hmmmm

livi, Sully, Sport... nice pics
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Oh, did everyone see... I hate oceanbound! (damn toadfish finder!)

Toadfish Finder?