Update: Underwater Photography

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Yellow barrel sponge, underwater, surrounded by sand and soft corals.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about practicing underwater photography on the junk at the bottom of the public pool – band-aids, mostly – and my hope that I would find something better to photograph in Belize.

Good news: I did. I saw a ton of lovely fish, some sea turtles, and a lot of really neat sponges. And not a single rogue band-aid.

My photos aren’t the most spectacular underwater photos that have ever been taken, but they are the most mine, and I love them.

A Flamingo tongue mollusk on a bare stalk of soft coral.
A diver silhouetted behind a coral fan.
This feels like some kind of underwater cliche, but I guess I have to get through the cliches before I can take good pictures.
A fish looks out of a sponge.
Big sponge, grumpy fish.

Photos: Me.

One thought on “Update: Underwater Photography

  1. Find a cleaning station. You can sit there with mask and snorkel as they aren`t deep. I nearly drown myself laughing at the bossy cleaners shepherding much bigger customers back for a final clean-up.

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