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Thanks! Found two Kraken Hydra v6000 for a good price.

Time to update decade old video lights. In hand we have one Big Blue 4000lumen light with extra batteries. How much longer will it last, who knows? Its mate died awhile ago. Budget is an issue so for wide angle video what do you think is better; two 4000lumen lights or one 10000 or 15000lumen light? Her first love is shooting macro. Shooting a Canon Vixia GF50 in a Gates housing. Thoughts?

The nice thing is the Philippines is a lot easier and less expensive to get to Lembeh, as much as we love Lembeh.

FYI, thanks for the suggestions we ended up going with Solitude Acacia Resort. Surprisingly a couple were resorts are already booked up for April.

Again we have two rigs, RX100 IV in Nauticam housing, Canon Video cam in Gates housing plus all the wet lenses and strobes. Fills the Stormcase right to the 50lb limit. When you get off the plane in Cozumel, you collect your bags and then have to run them through the scanner on the way out. The Mexican Customs official did stop me and wanted to know how many systems we had. I made it clear it was just one for myself and one for my wife. She asked if we had more than two cameras, which on this trip we did not. She let me go after that. While Cozumel is were my wife decided to try diving 20yrs ago and on this trip decided to take it up again; it will probably be our last trip there.

Seattle-Houston-Coz. We use zip ties to lock the case. Inside the lid have a sign thanking Customs for their work and ask they use zip ties I provide them to "re-lock" the case, which to date everyone has done. So that means it has to be someone in Customs. Should have had them on me. It just resulted in having to download the cards in the camera every night to an external hard drive. "Fortunately" they are just standard SD cards for the RX100 and the now 7yr old Canon.

Great info! The link was very informative. Now we just have to pick a date.

We typically pack all the camera gear in a Stormcase. This trip I spaced out and put the pouch with all our SD cards in with the "misc gear" box. When we arrived in Cozumel it was missing....

Looking for resort suggestions for Anilao. Like all of you we are avid (reef/muck friendly) photographers. Prefer smaller groups, don't need a 4star chalet, though A/C can be nice. If they have a good camera room that is a plus. Suggestions please and any pics or video you shot there.

As mentioned after a 7yr hiatus from diving we went to Cozumel to brush off the cobwebs and frankly to see if we are still passionate about diving. Plus for us diving means packing 4 bags with dive gear and camera gear. It was a great trip and now have booked a trip to Raja. The website is a mess and got in a habit of just posting the long video I make for us, long being over 15mins. Below is the less than 4min vid from our Coz trip.

Cozumel diving in the offseason.

Life, Covid lead to a 7yr break from diving. Now that we have retired it was time to see if our passion for diving, photography, and dealing with packing all that gear is what it once was. We booked a trip to Cozumel to dust off the gear and skills. After that first dive we both came up and said, "this needs to always be part of our life". In process booking a Raja Ampat trip! Took longer to dust off the photography skills than the dive skills. But by day 3 started to come along. Shooting Sony RX100 IV, Nauticam with the various wet lenses. The better half shoots the Canon HF G50, Gates housing but need to pick her up some new lights. Few pics from the trip. Yes, I see the world in wide angle, lol.

Some very nice layouts! I may need a "entry" page where some can see dive shots, another option for rowing, and one for travel/dryland.....

I need inspiration to redo our website! It was once focused on just underwater photography but now has become the family photo album. We are just enthusiastic amateurs and it has morphed into our version of a Facebook page and we are ok with that aspect. Used Redframe decades ago to build it and I don't think they have kept up with the times. Any suggestions for a better website building tool? Of course it has to be photo oriented. Not looking to sell photos or anything. Any comments on the current one are welcome. www.aquabluedreams.com

As mentioned I like the shot. I came across it on Facebook. I did ask where it was taken and I think the photographer did respond with the location. I am not an expert photographer so was curious to "how" they would capture this shot being blue rings are so tiny. That should have been the question I asked.