Galapagos, aboard the Deep Blue, June 7-14, 2004

Hi guys! I'm back from Galapagos, and had a great time there aboard the Deep Blue.

As usual, photos and a journal are up:

http://www.echeng.com/travel/galapagos2004/

A few of my favorites:

Whale Shark at Darwin

Whale Shark at Darwin, full-frame fisheye (no cropping)

Sea Lion at Cousin's Rock

Typically poor shots, Cheng.

Just had a cruise through your journal. Awesome.

Have you thought about converting the UW San Cristobal sealions (BTW - I like the hooked above water one too) to black and white images. I think that they would work well especially because the background is light enough to get it close to white.

I also think that white tip in the Cave at Wolf is an interestingly different image. V clean too - caves are normally tough on backscatter. The blurry turtle needs a smoother panning technique, though.

I'm very impressed by how sharp alot of your sealion pictures are - so many sealion shots are too blurry.

Jealous, as always,

Alex

thanks, alex.

the turtle shot was not planned properly. it was just SO DARK after coming out of the cage at dusk. i didn't have time to think about the shot -- and thus, crappy pan. i'll have to work on the technique, as i almost never do it.

i was impressed at the sharpness of the sealion shots as well. i thought they would come out blurry.

Have you thought about converting the UW San Cristobal sealions (BTW - I like the hooked above water one too) to black and white images. I think that they would work well especially because the background is light enough to get it close to white.

that's a great idea, Alex. i'll have to try it.

i wish I had loaded a new battery in for that checkout dive. it would have been easy to shoot off 50 shots of them playing around. instead, i shot 4 and kept 2.

Hi Eric

Greetings from London! - Been meaning to get on touch, sorry - Looks as tho you haven't been around much anyway!! The photos are amazing - cheered up my day no end and desparate to go and see for myself

Mel x

Great read Eric..........enjoyed seeing you at Seaspace....you and James did a very nice job with your workshop

How did the D70/Sea & Sea do?

Karl

Hey Mel! It's great to hear from you. I hope all is well.

Karl - the Sea & Sea D70 housing was very nice . Hope to have a review up soon! And thanks for the nice words about the workshop.

Just sufred throuth the gallery and loved it!

the sea horses pictures are great!