Bali Underwater Photos Posted
August 28th, 2005 by James
Sarah and I spent the last three weeks in Bali of which we spent about ten days diving on the North coast at Secret Bay, near Siririt, at Menjangen Island, and around Tulamben. Conditions weren’t very good for wideangle, but the macro photography was awesome! We got a chance to photograph just about everything on our “list” of critters. We were assisted by an awesome guide from Diving 4 Images named Yan who used to be a critter spotter on the Komodo Dancer, so some of you may have met him before. He was able to find us two pygmy seahorses in Tulamben when no one else had seen any for a while.
Herb Ko on Wetpixel and a few other people have asked about the diving in Bali as an actual destination, as opposed to a quick stop-over on the way to Lembeh or on a Komodo or Irian Jaya trip. Since Sarah wanted a variety of things to do on our honeymoon, as opposed to just DIVE! DIVE! DIVE! Bali has been wonderful. I was very impressed with the diving for critters here all along the coast, not just the traditional “muck” spot at Secret Bay. The wide angle at Menjangen was good (with good viz too), as was the Liberty wreck, but the surf and strong spring tides during our week in Tulamben meant the viz wasn’t as good there. The telephoto fish photography would have been excellent if the viz had been a little better, with HUGE Naso vlamingi tangs everywhere, the usual spawning anthias, sweetlips and the usual midwater species.
I intend to put together a detailed trip report, topside photo gallery, and a review of Diving 4 Images and Scuba Seraya, where we stayed in Tulamben. For now, I couldn’t resist posting my underwater photos as a teaser. I organized all the underwater photos by divesite, but I also put together a “favorites gallery” with 33 photos.
Here are a few that are special for me, either because they are rare critters, extremely difficult to take technically, or just captured a special moment:
Posted in Dives, Gallery, General | 2 Comments »
August 29th, 2005 at 6:32 am
[...] a Bali. Les deux sont plongeurs-photographes et ont ramene de fabuleuses images… En savoir plus… Ce billet a été publié le Monday [...]
August 29th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Congratulations. Effectivement de biens jolies images ! Merci Nico de nous prevenir des prochaines publications.
Marc