Hi everyone and welcome back to my underwater photography blog with Sairee Cottage Diving. This week, I have chosen this photo of a turtle. It has been a while since I have had a chance to shoot one of these guys, so I was really excited to see one while with a group of DSDs (Discovery Scuba Divers). He was
Read more →“We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.” – Ian Somerhalder
Read more →Hi everyone. Welcome back to my weekly underwater photography blog with Sairee Cottage Diving, Koh Tao, Thailand. This week I decided to choose this macro shot of a Metallic Faced Goby. There are many different types of Gobies that share a symbiotic relationship with their little Shrimp homemaker but the Metallic Faced Goby, portrays the best colours. They are pretty
Read more →I’m not sure about everyone else, but I personally love swimming past huge schools of fishes. One of my favorite fishes to see in schools, are batfish. Sairee Cottage Diving frequents the dive site, Twins, regularly as not only is it a perfect site for new divers to attain their training, but it’s also a site with plenty to see.
Read more →Hi everyone. Welcome back to my weekly underwater photography blog with Sairee Cottage Diving, Koh Tao, Thailand. This has been a stunning month here in Koh Tao, Thailand with Sairee Cottage Diving. The conditions have been great, with amazing visibility and a wide range of marine life hanging around our favourite dive sites. We’ve been lucky enough to see whale
Read more →Very frequently, I get the question; “why should I do the PADI Instructor Development Course on Koh Tao? What is it, that is different to some of the other IDC courses?” The second most common question I hear is; “why do Diving courses differ if they are based on a system with standards that should be equal everywhere you go?”
Read more →Hi everyone and welcome back to my underwater photography blog This week with Sairee Cottage Diving is a proud one for me. It was a year and a half ago that I completed my underwater videography course and at last got to capture some beautiful images and videos of a whale shark. We were on the way out to a
Read more →It’s Earth Day At Sairee Cottage Diving and we take it seriously to be as eco aware as we can possibly be. We dedicate time all year, not only on dedicated days. Of course we participated in Earth Day as well by coordinating a clean-up dive and beach clean-up at Lham Tian bay, east side of Koh Tao. We dedicated
Read more →Hi! This weeks photo with Sairee Cottage Diving, Koh Tao is a macro shot of a Cleaner Shrimp. Macro photography is extreme close up photography, usually of very small subject matter making the size of the subject bigger than life size. Taken at White Rock Koh Tao, it was not my best shot all week but it’s the one that
Read more →Incredible Marine Life Sightings In March a few PADI diving instructors and PADI Divemasters managed to get time off together and spend 6 awesome days of diving on the other side of Thailand in the Similan Islands. They saw a huge Manta Ray, which made us still diving over hear in Koh Tao extremely jealous. However frequent reports of Whale
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