Sharks and Dolphins_West End, Grand Bahama

On the water in the Bahamas in the summertime ... ahhh ... one of my favorite places to be! Last week I had the opportunity to do a 4 day shoot with Stuart Cove off his luxury sportfish yacht, Lyford Lure. A friend of mine and I flew to Freeport, and Stuart and crew met us at West End.

West End is the launch point for the spotted dolphins at White Sand Ridge, Caribbean Reef Sharks at Eldorado, the shallow Sugar Wreck, and of course the lemon and tiger sharks resident at Tiger Beach. The diversity and quality of the photo-ops here is amazing, and being there with friends who share the passion for UW photography makes it all the better.

Key Largo Photo Seminar_August 09

We just had a terrific week of diving in Key Largo last week, during my annual Digital Immersion photo course. I run these in the summer, here in my home town of Key Largo, and the diving never disappoints. What we have is abundance is ... fish/fish/fish. More than anywhere else I've yet to find in this hemisphere.

Here is a sample of the diversity we saw in our six days of diving. Thanks to Daniel Brown for teaching the Lightroom/Photoshop module, and especially to Ocean Divers for providing such wonderful dive boat ops all week.

All images with Canon 5DMKII and Canon 1DMKIII in Seacam housings.