You know you are a U/W/ photo nerd when...

When your wife suggests an evening investigating the best use of a lubricant and you promptly head to the camera room and work on lubricating O-rings all evening.

That's taking it too far!! I think exploring the best use of lubricant with your wife will probably bring inspiration to your photographs... So please... explore the lubes with your wife and not your housing :-).

KY on o-rings....hmmm never thought of that.

steve

You know you are an uw photo nerd geek when your husband puts in a special request 6 months in advance of arrival of house-guests for special permission to clear dining-room table of uw camera gear for a [gasp!] dinner!

The D800. Did we really need so many Mp?

you dive with 2-3 cameras and 2 hand held lamps.

You buy gear. You buy more gear and sell some. You buy and sell again repeatedly. You write about it all on a blog.

Then you open an internet store and sell a few things online. Then you sell more.

Then more and open another store online that's bigger. And bigger yet.

Then you open a retail store and quit your day job.

You look around and you have shelves and shelves of stuff that you now buy by the case.

Holy crap what happened? ;-)

Jack

...when you hand every single bit of money you ever get to your "dealer"...

You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files.

When the thought of seeing fish butts gets you excited. When you understand the meaning of muddy blues

"You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files."

OMG, Eyu, that's me!

Oh wait, I'm a little better than that, I waited a week before ordering... then ordered the new MacBook Pro a day later.

You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files.

What are you trying to do to us? "sob"

What are you trying to do to us? "sob"

Ho, ho, ho...

... and Santa will have to be extremely generous this year....

Here’s another take on you know you are a underwater photographer when you try to make a profession out of it.

An Underwater Photographer as seen by…

My self: An artist on the verge of greatness.

Mom: Unemployed.

Dad: I put him through college for this?

Myself: a bigger than life photographer with a truly artistic eye that knows how to capture the true essence of the subject.

The magazine’s Art Director: another imbecile who manages to make images shot with a $10,000 camera system look like they were shot with $150 point and shoot with a thumb smear on the lens.

Myself: a true master and commander with the right insight to steer a publication on a productive course.

The publisher: another imbecile sure to be unaccountable if he were allowed to the Magazine’s Photo Director.

Myself: a role model to all aspiring underwater photographers.

My Colleagues: another photographer who hasn’t learned how to properly use Photoshop.

Myself: a skilled professional whose work requires travel to exotic places, as well as spend inordinate sum of money on dive and photo equipment purchases – all of which deductible on schedule C of my tax return.

My neighbor: a guy running a disability scam.

My high-school reunion classmates: A guy living off a trust fund or married into money.

Myself: a creative artist who’s tangible assets on the verge of fame and fortune.

My accountant: one step away from filling bankruptcy, an audit by the IRS and going to jail for tax evasion.

Myself: a man living his dream, adventurously living by my wits.

The wife: At least I am the one with a real job that pays the bills.

This is/was the best series yet!

Especially the 'myself, neigbor, wife' etc.

I often ask myself, "why do i do this?" Does anyone really care?

Well, I guess i and you folks do.

Allan

I heard an old quote from Picasso today... " The critics get together and talk about aesthetics. The artists get together and talk about turpentine."

I thought that was hilarious! and pretty nerdy too!

Fletcher

When your spare SOLA 800 modeling light makes it into your carry on luggage, but your insulin kit gets checked.

When only dive destinations with u/w photo op's are considered when planning family vacations.

You only have two choices of camera types to use underwater, day or night: an inexpensive, disposable, waterproof camera or a waterproof housing for a standard compact or DSLR camera. The second option will obviously cost more than the first; however, any disposable camera has very limited optics and controls, which, in turn, limits the quality of photos you can take.

...when the highlight of your entire weekend, was finding and shooting a 'new' 1/2inch Nudibranch!