Jed recommended we hold off on the cameras on our first dive since it was our pool skills session and intro dive rolled into one - we could probably do without the distractions. We saw a turtle and a reef shark that dive, and joked that it would be a huge bummer if we never saw anymore - we'd have nothing to prove what we saw! Luckily, we were at the Great Barrier Reef and there was no shortage of turtles and sharks...
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And we caught this guy trying to dig for lunch...
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| Canon IXUS 130 |
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The term that Jed used to describe what we looked like to sharks was "washing machine", with all the bubbles and equipment. I still don't totally understand the analogy, but it kind of stuck. Maggie still uses that term to describe what we look like to marine life to our non-diver friends (which, unfortunately, would be all our friends). It was really hard to get good pictures of sharks though... they just cruise through the water. By the time I see them and get my camera ready, all I can get is an image of them swimming away...
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Except for this guy, who we caught taking a nap in the sand. You can also see a large sea cucumber in the back.
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| Canon SD870 IS |
The better picture is still from behind though, where I got (probably not by intent), some reef and smaller fish in the shot.
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| Canon SD870 IS |
At this depth, the colours are clearly washed out and reds have turned into browns. I'll try colour correcting some of these by applying a red filter and see where that takes me. It it works out, I'll definitely do a follow up post of it.
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