Lembeh Straits/Gangga Island

Kimberly and I returned from a great adventure to KBR at Lembeh Straits and I had a 4 day add-on to Gangga Island for WA diving. We had the "all too common" camera related problems, including one of the new D200's with a broken autofocus, 2 dead DS200's, minor flood in rinse tank, etc., etc......but with backups and a borrowed 5050, we never missed a dive without a camera.

I was expecting more WOW shots from this trip, but for whatever reason, they never really happened. We seemed more engrossed with the subject matter and not the "art". The water quality could have contributed to our shots not being as sharp as I want, but we are pleased with what we accomplished.

Please check out our Lembeh gallery at www.kdietz.com

Karl

Hey Karl -

I would consider that frogfish a WOWZA shot!!! Very cool lighting and composition...

What is up with the anemones in this area? Kinda weird looking... Rand posted some similar pics of same anemeone...

M.

Great gallery! Wonderful variety.

Love the pose on the Sea Snake in #36.

Great stuff. I know how you feel though. My results rarely meet my expectations but that's what keeps me going.

My favorites: 1, 4, 5, 21, 23, 34, 41, 74, 77, 78, 81, 83

What the heck is 68 and 90

Larry.....90 is a side gilled slug.....Euselenops Luniceps

68 is a Melibe Mirifica Nudibranch...I think

Thanks Mike.....the frogfish is one of Kimberly's

Karl

Karl,

Those are WOW to me. I think they are fantistically composed and very eye catching. Excellent work.

Joe

Karl

I've been waiting for you to post. Really nice photos by both you and Kimberly. Sorry about the camera/strobe problems. That's why we have to have so much back up eqipment. You got some really unusual stuff. The rhinopias is really nice. How often to you get to see one of those!

Glad you are home safe and sound! Bet you are planning your next trip.

Wow, really nice.

Impressive collections, in the anemone shot, thus are the 'real' colors? They sure unique.

Arnon, the beaded anemone is very different from the usual giant anemones that we usually see....yes, that color is very representative of what we saw

Karl

Hi Karl,

Welcome back to you guys! Just saw this thread - great!

I especially like your composition in the coronet-fish photo. Very good.

I'll check out the rest of your gallery tonight. Hope you had a good trip.

James

PS, are you coming to our workshop this weekend? ;-)

Thanks James.....we had a great trip with the HUPS group.....excellent group of people

This will be our first weekend at home in about 5 weeks, so we'll be missing the workshop this weekend. I know it will be good because Dennis was thinking about it all the time in Lembeh

Of course if there was ever anyone who can multi-task....it is Dennis!

Karl

Great lookin stuff Karl! glad to hear you had a good time, but man! lots of camera troubles... ick

Great shots guys!

Great shots Karl, the seasnake is excellent.

Sorry to hear about the accidents. How much can go wrong in a couple of weeks.

I was in the same water during that period (Lembeh/B(G)anga/Siau/Bunaken), so that could have contributed to the poor waterquality (better to make the joke yourself before someone does..).

My shots will be up later this week.