Recently I refurbished an old Sony Handycam housing. The housing is quite big  (originally for an old and big Hi8 camcorder) so it can easily accommodate various modern digital camcorders. Also it’s well balanced in the water it’ll be a pleasure to use it I think. The empty housing passed a water test successfully two […]

With the high tide at 7:40pm I decided to go for a late evening (almost night) dive. With a wide-angle lens on my camera I was not looking for small critters rather I hoped to make pictures of the environment. To my great surprise I could see a kingfish chasing its prey in the shallow water […]

Yesterday I was diving Goat Island Shallows again. Despite the rain the visibility was very good, perhaps the best within the last a couple of months. That means good conditions for wide angle photography. Actually my wide angle photography is not really wide. I use a 18mm lens with the 1.5 crop factor sensor which […]

Because of the wind and swell the silt was stirred up so the water was very murky with the visibility around 1m. It was very difficult to take pictures even from a very short distance the water was so full of particles. However, I’ve found a very nice “tree” of a violet sponge about 20cm […]