Mike Saunders

[plymouth uk]: [InDeep dive centre] - recommended by [Mike] - Solo [yes] - Rebreather [no - not even a dive....] boat trip 10 miles off Plymouth, jump in and snorkel only with blue sharks you are in the water for an hour with these beasts swimming under and over you and your shutter finger will get worn out taking pictures not strictly scuba but one of the best underwater experiences I have ever had

thanks - that looks interesting

I'd be interested to see a list of the best underwater photography venues in the UK - I have no interest in diving to 60m to look at wrecks so far I have done the blue shark snorkelling trip in Plymouth which is great for close up photos I'm planning at some stage to do seals in Lundy and Gannets / Puffins in west wales I think there are some decent reefs south of Cornwall and I understand there are quite pretty things to see in west and North Scotland but that sounds very like drysuit county

thanks for the advice I will be trying it with a nauticam 7inch dome on an alpha 6300 apsc. The dome is designed to be used with the sony 10-18 F4 so although not perfect I imagine it will be in the rough ballpark

does it mater if you use rectilinear or fisheye underwater? I vaguely remember reading that fisheye is better I have a viltrox 9mm f2.8 e mount which is rectilinear and quite impressive, sharp, bright and with very good close focus- I am thinking of trying it in the red sea - am I likely to encounter any problems?

are these from Alex mustard's course? (which I have just finished and was excellent!)

Colorado - kind of halfway between California kelp forests and Florida / Caribbean reefs could be worse....

thats awful sitting in Labaun Bajo this year in good weather, looking out at the flottilla of dive boats I remember thinking some of them didnt look terribly suitable for rough seas

lightroom - subscription PS on rare occasions when I want to remove a thing or paint over it but that is obviously cheating I am very much a weekend warrior sort of lightroom user - I do the basics but when I open up the menus and see all the possibilities I get overwhelmed

would it be reasonable to assume that the AF would be better on this than my Sony 90mm macro? Using alpha 6300 so not cutting edge body but better than a6000

do you think scuba diving is net good or net bad for the undersea world? on the down side - damage to reefs, animals, Carbon footprint of people like me flying UK to Indonesia to dive, changing the behaviour of wildlife on the plus side - making divers appreciate the oceans and hoping that they try to live and act greener, encouraging reef conservation, encouraging greener practices in others on another note - every time I go diving I think that we should stop commercial fishing of the oceans completely. It is not ours to take and we are not farming it with new animal stock like we do chicken and cattle- we are just taking it away. It may sound a bit sensational but I honestly think that the oceans cannot sustain the human race any more.