Archive for the Underwater Photography Category

Hello everybody and welcome back to my latest underwater photography blog with Sairee Cottage Diving. Scuba diving Ko Tao’s amazing reefs with a camera is my job. This week I have chosen a bit of a strange photo for my photo of the week. I say strange, because it is not the conventional, even lighting, seen in most underwater images.

Chumpon Pinnacle has Ideal Conditions for Photography Hi everyone and welcome back to my underwater photography blog with Sairee Cottage Diving. We head out to Chumpon Pinnacle twice a week. I always make sure I catch that boat! Chumpon Pinnacle is an amazing dive site. More often than not, Chumpon Pinnacle features crystal clear water. This is perfect for taking

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

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

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

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

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

Hi everyone and welcome back to my weekly photography blog. This week with Sairee Cottage Diving I have been playing around with wide angle shots. I shot this on the Fujifilm finepix f30 with the wide angle wet lens. The benefit of using a wet lens over the usual types of lens is that you can change it while diving.

This weeks underwater photo, I have chosen this picture of an Anemone fish. This was taken at Twins on my first dive playing about with a strobe. It was a bit of a learning curve and I am still getting used to using it but I really like the way the colours have come out in this one. Anemones are a

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week I have chosen this picture of a titan trigger fish. They have been particularly territorial the last few weeks as they have been in the breeding season and have been building there nest cones. Most divers will keep there distance from these guys all year round but more so now.