Category: Underwater
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Hope for the oceans: The Giant Clam Nursery
Meet the giant clam, the building block of our oceans These clams are considered custodians of the reef: They provide food as well as lodging to fish. If we take a ruler and measure out five feet (or 1.524 meters to be Google-exact), this abstraction roughly translates to less than the average height of a…
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Underwater Dispatches: Sombrero Island in Wide Angle
After five months of not getting my much needed #VitaminSEA, I was able to tag along with two friends on a day trip to Sombrero Island. We did a total of three dives on Saturday and although I’ve had the RX100 for more than two years, this was the first time I actually went all-out…
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Underwater Photography: Rhinopias, Mariona, and Pygmy Seahorse
Two dives, 202 photos and over 140 minutes of bottom time. Sharing three shots (out of 202!!) from the weekend dive. We kicked off from Anilao PHOTO Hotel with Ivan Manzanares. Not only is he a spotter, he’s adept with a camera so he helped jog back my understanding of shooting with a P&S from…
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Last month’s macro haul on the Sony RX-100 Mark II
As much as I prefer shooting video on the ‘ol RX-100, macro photography has become a default posit in my dive schedule as of late. This is mostly because the dive sites I’ve been frequenting with Steve Tan are considered playgrounds for all things small. And really, there’s nothing more challenging than finding a shrimp…
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Video: The Coral Garden
If I were to summarize the Anilao experience into one dive site, it would have to be an area called Batok, a rich reef located right behind Sombrero Island. Huge barrel sponges seascapes with the divine hand, flat table corals lined with hovering juveniles and fry and fan corals that pipe the currents like wind.…
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Video: Diving the USAT Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, Bali
Did two dives at the famed USAT Liberty Wreck in Bali, Indonesia last month. I’m a little jealous of the fact that the locals have easy access to one of the most beautiful wreck dives in modern history. A shore entry from the resort and a few meters down leads you to this humongous America…
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This underwater video is really good. But there’s something this photographer isn’t telling you..
Like my click-bait title? I swear these types of headlines are annoying. So yeah the video is awesome. But what “I didn’t tell you” is that I didn’t use any artificial light for this. My only light source was the sun! See what I did there? LOL. Anyway, over the weekend, we got the Sony…
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Valerie Taylor, the diver who shot Jaws had no idea it would make people afraid of sharks
I got a chance to do a phone interview with renowned underwater photographer and videographer Valerie Taylor. You may not know her personally, but you’ve probably seen her works: she shot the underwater footage from Jaws, Orca and well, every teenager’s sizzling romantic film (in 1980) Blue Lagoon starring Brooke Shields.
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The Boat on Top of the Hill
October 2013, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines Canon 350D Tokina 10-17mm f/8 1/100 ISO 100 I am floating on top of a lush green hill topped with a derelict boat that isn’t supposed to be here. As I glide, my lightness becomes apparent as the wind blows my little self to and fro, commanded by the thousand…
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7 Most Memorable Underwater Shots from 2013
2013 was an awesome year for SCUBA Diving. And I don’t use the word awesome loosely. For one, I got to finally compete in an underwater photo shoot out in Cebu, flying there twice in a span of two weeks. Out of the several “memory card full” warnings, here are the 7 most memorable shots…
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