While on Little Cayman, I was not about to take my big rig (a Canon Mark IV) 100 feet underwater, so I used two other cameras–a little Canon Powershot S90 (yeah it’s old, but this was my first dive trip since I think 2011) and a Yi camera. They did not provide the best results, but it’s the memories that count. Here are pics of stingrays, an ocean trigger fish, some grunts, a trumpet fish, a lobster and several other things.
While this holiday was in March 2018, I only just (as in two weeks ago from when this post is going live, mid-August 2019) caught up on all the backlog of digital media up that point. In my defense, life at Purgatory has been extremely busy in the 16 months since this trip, and that’s the excuse to which I’m sticking. But seriously, so many projects are happening that I haven’t had any time to just sit down and plod my way through the backlog of media from this trip until fairly recently. Of course, there were the complications of cleaning up various directories of random media files over the last year after I brought up a new NAS (Network Attached Storage for the non-geeks reading this) that now resides in the wine room slash server room.
But back to the vacation story I’m supposed to be writing for you to read or listen to (in case you hadn’t noticed there are also audio recordings now of most posts). I did try out the video options as well, but had less than stellar results. Still, here are a couple compilations of interesting things; first one is in B&W (no idea how my cam got set to B&W) but the turtle actually looks pretty cool without full color.
Once I got my cam out of B&W mode, I messed about with it on a few dives. It was mainly to practice my skills, as having a camera when you dive totally changes things. Perhaps I’ll eventually acquire something specifically for diving, but right now I’m sticking with taking good pictures of birds and flowers and all the stuff outside my window at Purgatory.
Here’s a very short (color) compilation of some interesting things I saw, including a shark that decided to check me out.
Before every dive, the dive masters explain the site at which we were moored and describe any landmarks and interesting sea life we might see. They draw things out on a white board, and I found that the best way to organize the data from my dive computer was to snap a quick picture of the board, then just add the image to my dive app. I’m a pretty awful diver when it comes to logbooks, as I like to know where I’ve been, but I don’t take copious notes about the spot.
