Finally made it to Mexico ...

[Drewpy]

Look forward to some more pics..

 

[Peter Guy]

Bob -- I'm very ambivalent about cave pictures with divers carrying strobes because it often creates too much light! Caves ARE DARK and I like my pictures to show that.

Glad you are having fun down there.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Feel free to post some of your pictures then, Peter. The nice thing about photography is that we're all free to see the scene in our own way. You don't have to like my pics ... other people apparently do.

Here's a few shots from today's dives ... a part of the Nohoch system aptly named Phenomenal.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[TSandM]

Bob, if you read Peter's post again, I think you'll see that he's trying to say that you shouldn't apologize for not having slave strobes, because he PREFERS pictures like yours, that have a bit more darkness in them.

I love the "open jaw" in the next to the last picture. I don't remember seeing that. I'll have to look for it next time!

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Oh ... as Emily Latella used to say ... "never mind."

BTW - I think I neglected to mention that my dive buddy and "model" is fellow ScubaBoarder "kotik". Prior to this trip we'd never met or dived together. Turns out we're pretty compatible. Thanks, Eric, for your patience ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Bob, if you read Peter's post again, I think you'll see that he's trying to say that you shouldn't apologize for not having slave strobes, because he PREFERS pictures like yours, that have a bit more darkness in them.

I love the "open jaw" in the next to the last picture. I don't remember seeing that. I'll have to look for it next time!

Didn't mean to upset the apple cart with a lighting comment... However, I KNOW it has to be tough to not over expose a diver in the foreground floating in black water and still get a good bit of the background at a distance with sufficient light on it. I like the jaws pic too!

 

[ucfdiver]

Bob -- I'm very ambivalent about cave pictures with divers carrying strobes because it often creates too much light! Caves ARE DARK and I like my pictures to show that.

Glad you are having fun down there.

Feel free to post some of your pictures then, Peter. The nice thing about photography is that we're all free to see the scene in our own way. You don't have to like my pics ... other people apparently do.

I've reread this a few times and can't for the life of me figure out how you managed to get yourself upset about it.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Read something that wasn't there, James ... thought it was a carry over from a previous conversation about the prudence of carrying a camera into a cave. Apparently not.

Today I slipped and fell while carrying my tanks up the stairs at Jailhouse. Ended up at the hospital for a couple of stitches. Apparently I should be less worried about taking a camera into a cave and more worried about taking stairs out of one ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[chrpai]

I love the "open jaw" in the next to the last picture. I don't remember seeing that. I'll have to look for it next time!

I saw that picture and thought of church organ pipes. But now I see what you see.

 

[JamesK]

Great pics! Keep the reports coming. Say hi to everyone for me. Wish I was there.