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What have we here?

What have we here?

The Caribbean: Bonaire, N.A. Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Or, “Have you got food? … ARE you food?” On this dive I was seeking and expected small subjects — macro shots. My dive buddies were off in the distance and I was poking about some small coral heads and […]


Independence Day

Independence Day

Reston, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Every Fourth of July the residents around the lakes in northern Virginia celebrate the national day with spontaneous fireworks displays. Everyone who owns a boat or a floating dock or “deck boat” embarks with tiki torches lit and a boat full […]


Heads Up!

Heads Up!

The Red Sea: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. The Red Sea at night. It is pitch black. The biggest challenge diving at night is to turn off your imagination and notice what is actually in view in your light; don’t imagine that there may be something […]


Noplace to Park

Noplace to Park

Santorini, Greece Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. July on Santorini, Greece. It is hot — very hot. Near 100 degrees or more. The humidity feels like about 200 percent. The blazing summer sun here is so hot that evaporation from the sea is actually visible. The haze that obscures […]


Unspoiled

Unspoiled

Winchester, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Having stayed overnight in Winchester, Virginia, we decided to spend the afternoon visiting the nearby Museum of the Shenandoah. The afternoon threatened bad weather with heavy clouds and thunderstorms in the area, but we decided to press on. With storm clouds […]