Snorkeling in Culebra

[Rascal]

All photos taken with a Cannon A710IS with DC6 underwater case. I am still learning how to use it so all pictures were taken with the pre-programmed "underwater" setting and then edited with Picasa (just cropped and the "I'm feeling lucky" button).

 

I'll probably break these up into a few posts, but here's the whole album if anyone's interested: http://s140.photobucket.com/albums/r21/Ras...rkeling%20pics/.

 

Enjoy:

 

 

Tangs:

 

 

I guess that's enough for now

[funnyguy911]

wow what camera did you use to take those awesome pictures, we went to key west but visiblity was horrible.

[Rascal]

Some butteryfly fish. These were really skittish and hard to photograph (they swim much faster than me). Always saw them in pairs, and never more than one pair anywhere near each other.

 

Let's see, what else? Everyone loves these, right?

 

 

[funnyguy911]

wow what camera did you use to take those awesome pictures, we went to key west but visiblity was horrible.

 

sorry did not read the comments to busy looking at the pictures...

[Rascal]

Some Christmas Trees:

 

 

 

And some anenomes:

 

 

We also saw a bunch of absolutely gorgeous rock anenomes, but unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of them.

[mogurnda]

Great shots. Makes me want to get wet somewhere warm. Thanks for sharing!

[Rascal]

Not done yet. Just got interupted by that pesky job thing.

 

Some more fish:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And coral:

 

 

 

 

 

OK. Last post. Did I mention the tangs?

 

 

 

 

 

I also took a couple of videos, but haven't been able to upload them to photoshop yet.

 

Thanks for looking. Hope you all enjoy. We sure did.

 

Just a shame we have to wait a whole year to go back to anything like that.

[danskim]

Ooooh. Awesome pictures!

[Rascal]

wow what camera did you use to take those awesome pictures, we went to key west but visiblity was horrible.

 

Visibility was much better this year than last, especially towards the latter part of the week when the surf calmed down some.

 

I was very happy and pleasantly surprised with the performance of the camera, especially considering I really had no idea what I was doing. Most of the fish pictures, for instance, are cropped quite a bit (I wasn't quite THAT close to them) but the photos came out pretty well even blown up like that. Picassa helped a lot with the colors and brightness, but I feel I could do a lot better once I figure out the whole white balance - aperture - shutter speed - depth of field - . . . , errr, once I learn photography.

[Bendalat]

Wow, beautiful pictures.

What kind of tangs are they?

[jamesbuf]

Very very nice. Making me reconsider my parents graduation present.

Edited April 12, 2007 by jamesbuf

[Rascal]

Wow, beautiful pictures.

What kind of tangs are they?

 

Thanks.

Most of those pictured are Atlantic Blue Tangs (Acanthurus coeruleus), though there are some others mixed in. I'm afraid I have to get out the books to be any good with identification.

[jason the filter freak]

OH WOW! Those are sensational pics! I'm green with envy, those pics are incredible, and I bet the trip was better