Some pictures from the Keys

[Paul B]

My closest friend and dive partner spends half the time in the Florida Keys and half here in New York. We can't really tank any kind of pictures here as the visability here is measured in inches. My avatar was taken from about an inch away here in NY and that's about the farthest away you can get to see on many days. My friend is also a much better underwater photographer than I am. These looked to be very shallow dives and were taken yesterday.
You don't often see these large elkhorn corals any more but I have seen some as big as a house in St Lucia in the Caribbean. Hurricanes and typhoons have a way of toppling these as they are more delicate than more rounder corals.

These roundish corals make up most of the reefs in Florida.


If you dive, you will see fry like these all over the place and most fish consider this an all you can eat buffet. Fry make up a large part of many fishes diet.

 

[Cu455]

Cool pictures. My parent's have a place down there. We used to dive Pennekamp marine preserve, or something like it.

 

[Exotic Reef]

Cool I like that first pic ... Is there a limit to how many times you can dive there ?

 

[Paul B]

No, if you have a boat you can live underwater, as long as you don't have to breathe.

 

[reefman]

great pics paul

 

[skene]

Nice pics. Someone is not keeping up with their maintenance... I see some GHA.

 

[Paul B]

Someone is not keeping up with their maintenance... I see some GHA.

Thats nothing, I took this in Hawaii last year

 

[Cu455]

Thats nothing, I took this in Hawaii last year

Its like green hair Mohawk.

 

[Paul B]

I was going to super glue it on to my head

 

[TommyP]

Nice pictures and funny comments as always!

 

[photoman]

Question about picture taking under water

If I am ask, what camera and what do you use to put the camera in? I have always wanted to try my hand at at taking under water pictures. I have a Nikon D7100. Thanks for any info and I enjoyed the pictures.

 

[Paul B]

As I said in the first post, that was my friend who took those pictures. I spoke to him yesterday and he told me that was the clearest he has ever seen the Keys. That was Kew Largo. I don't know what camera he used. I use a Hero3 camera but he takes much better pictures than I do.