View Full Version : Greg's GREAT Reef Shots!
Shirley
08-20-2006, 12:12 AM
Greg, our leader here at BoF, took these shots recently while diving in the Florida Keys...
He posted them over on our sister board, thereeftank.com aka TRT.
http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81173
His shots are AMAZING!!! :dance:
These are as spectacular as the ones he took last year. :wub: The one with the pearl with blue colored markings is awesome! :clap:
Thanks for linking them...
Flock Mom
08-20-2006, 08:18 AM
Excellent pictures! Thanks for the link :)
I wonder what is clinging on to the fish in the last picture?
That sure is a nasty looking sky there Greg :eek: I can see why you cut your trip short.
Shirley
08-20-2006, 08:23 AM
He answers that question in post #25, 26, and 27 -- including the ID of that brilliantly patterned blue fish... the Scrawled Cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis
He ID'd the "cling-on" as an Isopod of some sort.
Look here for a definition and photo of an
Isopod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopod)
:emot-danc Amazing fantastic fish and colours, scary shark:eek: and Jeff spelled Geoff looks like his avatar is a pint of English beer:woot: I have some tank pics from Fuerteventura airport, maybe I'll join TRT:rofl:
parrotgirl
08-20-2006, 01:40 PM
Awesome pics Greg, in fact they are beautiful Wow that sky sure is black, can understand why you cut your dive early. :eek:
Junkzoo
08-20-2006, 05:24 PM
Yup, those are some great pics,,,,Thanks Shirley, for linking them.
I've only went out diving with Greg one time,,,and as the boat was going up and down in the swells,,Greg was known to say ,all the way out to the dive site, "it's not that bad out here, i've been in worse",,,(not too many if at all , other boats that went out that day)well so was i (been in worse seas), but it was on the way back from a dive(s),when the seas kicked up, or came up from a dive,and found that a storm had parked itself over us while we were down under.
Flock Mom
08-20-2006, 06:23 PM
Interesting Shirley....thanks for the link on the isopod :)
Awesome! Those are cool pics.
Yup, those are some great pics,,,,Thanks Shirley, for linking them.
I've only went out diving with Greg one time,,,and as the boat was going up and down in the swells,,Greg was known to say ,all the way out to the dive site, "it's not that bad out here, i've been in worse",,,(not too many if at all , other boats that went out that day)well so was i (been in worse seas), but it was on the way back from a dive(s),when the seas kicked up, or came up from a dive,and found that a storm had parked itself over us while we were down under.
:ohmy: I've had one scary storm boating incident and believe me, that was enough to make me watch for those freak storms that suddenly appear.
Shirley
08-22-2006, 08:49 AM
Greg just outdid himself -- posted some of the most astounding underwater shots I've seen! Starts with post #39 HERE (http://thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81173&page=2)
:dance::dance:
Junkzoo
08-22-2006, 10:36 AM
Greg just outdid himself -- posted some of the most astounding underwater shots I've seen!
I've only really been w/ Greg on one day of diving, and taken almost the same pics of the things he took, or at least seen the subjects and areas he's used his camera on(it does not help to know we had the identical cameras:doh: )And from what i've seen that anyone had to work with picture taking-wise, i am always amazed to see how well Greg's pics come out. (Greg will say he takes a lot of pics and only a few are worthy of being "good",plus he gives Photoshop some credit to "work over" some of the pics, to correct a thing or two)My last dive trip, i used a lot of tips Greg gave me prior, and it help immensely in my shots.
Greg is one of the best "non -pros" i've seen in underwater photography IMO,and i strive to be one day, a fraction as good (or lucky as he has called it) of a U/W photog as Greg is.:thumbup:
Shirley
08-22-2006, 03:33 PM
All you need to do is dive more often, Jeff! :agree:
Junkzoo
08-22-2006, 08:56 PM
All you need to do is dive more often, Jeff! :agree:
I'll say :agree:
Jeff, how can you stand looking at these awesome pics and not long to be there... I know your heart if with the divers.
Junkzoo
08-23-2006, 05:36 PM
Jeff, how can you stand looking at these awesome pics and not long to be there... I know your heart if with the divers.
Even worse, i showed my coworkers Greg's other pics off his website , last night.
Seeing all those pics made me want to be there SO bad,,,,next summer will not be soon enough for me thats for sure:( :emot-danc
Junkzoo
08-23-2006, 05:38 PM
Plus seeing my air tanks, and dive gear bag only 10 feet from my computer here does not help either,,,,LOL
Or the Fla fish in my aquariums upstairs for that matter,,,:doh: :funny:
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