I came across this thread about Depth-of-field & focus area on DigitalDive.net which seems interesting. Remind myself to really understand and try this stuffs!

Back to Monterey Break Water for the 2nd time this year. Nice weather but a little bit of swell above normal. Visi was pretty bad, some spots were like 5 ft ! Should have gone earlier. Still frustrated w/ the new dslr setup. Guess will have to keep tryng & learning. If gas $ not that expensive, I would go again tomorrow.

Just read this article from MSNBC, for the first time, I see some underwater life form which are not that glamorous. They are found in between 2,000 and 21,000 feet below, whew !

Polish plastic port

For those poor diver like me using plastic port, I came across this thread in Wetpixel show us how to polish minor scratch. Pretty useful but scary !

Under Water Restaurant

Wow ! Check this out, the World's First All-glass Undersea Restaurant Opens, it's the Hilton Maldives. Don't miss the Dinner menu. Very exepensive but sounds good ! Hmm! May be I need
to plan a trip out to Maldives.

Diappointed - Long way to learn !

2 hrs boat ride from Ventura to Anacapa, 15 ft visi and 54F water but at the island, it could fool you as somewhere warm ! Lot more life then Monterey BreakWater (San Carlos Beach). Several sea lions hung around, plenty of 4 footer Sheephead. Great time working with 3 open water students also. The disappointing thing was no good pictures ! Got to be honest, just switched from p&s Olympus 5050 to a Nikon D80, it's such a big different. Talk about task load ! Nothing came out focus even the DS-125's modeling light was on.
The cool thing w/ the DS-125's, we had three 40~50 minutes dives and I ran the modeling light on on all 3 dives and never recharge in between. On the 4th dive, the battery finally drained but that's like 2 hrs of usage before it retired. ... I need to learn this all over again !

Anacapa Weekend

Here we go, a beautiful Sat, temperature in the mid 60's and will go up to the 70's by tomorrow or when I get to Ventura. We are going with the Peace Dive Boat. Hope I will get some decent sheephead shots, etc. etc. 6 hrs drive, outta here now ...

Retro-posting old albums

I have been using Sony Imagestation and Yahoo Photo for years. Guess I have to find time to start moving some of my favorite memory on to my Flickr .
Too much work ... :-(