megabeast37215 wrote...
LOL! Everyone says that! Holding up big heavy fish makes you put your crotch... er... back into it. Just about everyone I have looks that way too except the big AJ photo I have, he's getting a bear hug.
Good to meet another UW photographer/videographer. I wish I had more time to take macro shots of all the cool stuff down there. The 'micro' life on the reefs here in Jacksonville is amazing... but alas, I'm always killing stuff b/c the guys I go diving with are a bunch of old guys who can't see even with prescription masks. If they didn't get any fish/lobster to take home, they'd stop going... which would end me having a ride out there. So I suck it up and shoot into their limits too. I used to work on the Reef Raider (commercial fishing/spearfishing vessel) for 3-4 years... till a buddy of mine dropped dead on the deck from an Air-Gas Embolism. Really sucked... 34 years old, father of two beautiful girls... and I got subpoenaed to the damn court case since it was just me and the captain onboard with him. You gotta follow the rules in 175 feet....
Still... it's not gonna stop me from diving for fun.
Yeah... sad but true, water is treacherous, and the only order we find down there is the order we have in our head !
But you seem to having fun now and that's the key !

As for a spot, I may say I can't travel right now and here it is non natural environnement

As I am learning I don't have any models so I must do with my charming girlfriend and an other friend. It is not easy to start in the profession... Less easy when you spend your time under cover from ravager's missiles instead of spend it underwater learning ^^