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Cocos and Costa Rica 08 Top Side
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11/22/20
After 4 years of neglect, I finally updated this web site with some bucket list trips.
The first was the Great White Sharks in Guadalupe Mexico. "Diving in cage took awhile to get use to, but once I did, it was an awesome experience. It's a trip that I must do again.
The second bucket list item was shooting the northern lights. This took two attempts to achieve this. The first was to Iceland where I struck out. The country was beautiful in a harsh way. My pictures do not do it justice. It was just one tough area for me to shoot: crappy light, poor ISO on my camera, and I had a tough time composing good shots with large open vistas.
The second successful attempt for seeing the Northern Lights was to Norway. I can't say enough good things about Norway. The area we stayed in was Tromso. From there, the professionals drove us to areas to see the lights. I can't wait to do this trip again with a upgraded camera that can take higher ISO pictures. (The camera I used toped out at 3200 and grainy at that!!). Check out this 13 second time lapse that was recorded over the course of 13 minutes : iphone Time Lapse Northern Lights
I started this website back in 05 when there was no good platforms for sharing pictures. I have been winging it ever since. I keep saying in need to update it and make it more coherent. I will vow that the next time I update this site, it will reflect this decade!!!
Enjoy, Mark
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Norway 2019
Iceland 2018
Guadalupe 2018
Random iphone Pictures
Cuba 2016 Underwater
Please note: my underwater photo equipment never made it Cuba but the Aggressor photographer stepped up and lent me his "Frankenstein" backup camera and housing (a very cool thing to do). It was a Canon digital camera jammed into a very old Nikon film camera housing. (They know how to Macgyver anything in Cuba!) But this barrowed camera and housing had very limited controls--only the shutter and 2 dials "worked" which made changing settings nearly impossible. It also had only about a 1/4 of the review monitor visible. Furthermore, the strobes were much less powerful and slower then I am used to. Even worse yet, the strobe arms couldn't be tightened all the way, making the strobes float around and giving me all sorts of backscatter. Just open any other gallery and one can see the obvious difference equipment can make. It was a frustrating shoot to say the least but I did came back with some shots and found a great place to dive.
Cuba 2016 Topside
St Lucia 2015
Grand Cayman Island
(Sunset House) 2014
Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac
(Aggressor) 2013
Indonesia, Lembeh Straits 2011
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Grand Bahamas Bank
Best quality Mobile
Papua New Guinea 09
Topside
Underwater
Galapagos 08
Underwater
Topside
Dover 08
Me trying to fit in with the Hammerhead sharks
Cocos Underwater 08
Cocos top side and Costa Rica 08
Pocono 08
Mexico 2007
Indonesia 2006
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