Tag: Jan Acosta
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NUDI Interview on ANC Mornings
Jan Acosta and I guested on ANC Mornings to talk about the fast growing underwater photography club in Manila. NUDI or the Network of Underwater Digital Imagers (check us out on Facebook and yep, here’s the link to our site) is an underwater photography club that was formed to get diver-photographers together to share techniques…
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Worse than a needle in a haystack
This article first appeared UNO Magazine’s December-January ’11 issue Pygmy seahorse by Jan Acosta What does it really take to shoot underwater photos? “Are the pygmies still there?†The spotter nods, implying something that Jan and the rest of the group already know. At about 80 ft deep, there is a white fan coral about…
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Finally, it’s complete: Sea & Sea DSLR housing with single YS-110 strobe
Procured from parts found all over, I finally completed my first professional housing set up. I’d like to send out thanks to Wowie Wong, Jan Acosta and Jovic Santos for giving really good buying advice (and in Wowie and Jovic’s case … parts!).
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6 Months of Diving the Philippines
I celebrated my 6th month of diving over the long weekend. Since April, I finished both my open water and advanced courses, logged 31 dives, six of which were wrecks, one a freshwater lake, and conquered the Canyons in Puerto Galera. I’ve made new friends and we put up our very own underwater travel blog…
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Sony DSC T700 with Marine Pack Hands On in Anilao
Photo Credits: Juned Sonido, Benj Espina, myself Went on a weekend dive at Dive and Trek in Anilao. A friend was taking her open water course so a bunch of us tagged along. It was also good to meet up (underwater!) with Wowie, Jerome and the rest of the guys from Intel. On the side…
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Where it is Humanly Possible
The term “Humanly Possible” is a redundancy. At 60 feet underwater, there is, what my colleague Prof. Richard Cruz calls a deep feeling in your gut sparked by sheer amazement with what you are experiencing. He describes it as something you feel when you see fireworks – it comes from the clenching of your gut…
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Open Water Dive Certification Week I: Dive and Trek, Anilao
Henderson Gold Core What a weekend! I’m in the process of completing my open water diving certification under PADI (yay a blog!). I’ve always wanted to launch into the deep, so now that I have the time and a little more savings, I decided to invest slowly in dives. I dragged Juned into taking lessons…
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