I love taking photographs and once I discovered scuba diving it was a natural progression to start doing underwater photography.  There are so many more things to consider first as a diver and then as a photographer.

Once you have mastered your buoyancy and checking out that you don’t run out of air !! then you can focus on improving your photgraphic skills. Mastering buoyancy will make sure that you don’t get the wobbles and therefore blurry pictures. Then the next problem I incurred in the early days was that I really struggled with getting the right colours…. because of how the light travels through the water, the primary colour of red is lost – this means the pictures come out really blue.

The difference between these two pictures, both taken at approximately the same depth, is very clear. In the picture on the right you can see that the colours are much more like we would expect on land, this is because I learnt how to manage my camera

That meant that I could then focus on really ’seeing’ things when I dived – to spend time looking at a small area of the reef and finding all manner of interesting and unusual small stuff.

That is just a small sample of the range of tiny nudibrancks and flat worms that can be found if you look hard. They are all colours and shapes, these are about 2-3 centimetres long. Some varieties are as small as your little fingernail others like the Spanish Dancer are giants in the world of underwater slugs and measure close to 18 inches.

I could go on for hours with pictures of sharks, cute fish, coral-scapes and sceneries.  I think the only other thing I would dwell on it sthat once you have master buoyancy, breathing, finding things, not getting eaten ( ), then you can start to see things differently – different angles, different appertures, and different lens. So here are my final few shots.

I’ll stop now   Maybe you can start to see why I love scuba diving so much
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Till the next dive