Hi ALL - few pics to start - full trip report to follow - Great time was had by all

Nice Flounder!

LOL, "Coldiest Beer"

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(Message edited by herk_man on April 5, 2010)

Fabulicious photos.

Nice Carl

I don't know how they do it.... but they have the coldiest beer on the island... and some of the bestiest food, and the niceiest people.... yup

Love the pics, Carl! The colors just jump out and make ya feel like we are there with the fishes.

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nice pics.
Thank you for sharing

Are you using strobes on those or filter?

e.

Eric -

neither - built in flash - on automatic - with a diffuser - underwater setting -

Hmm, I see that most of your stuff is so macro that you don't really have to worry about backscatter, but some of them (very first one for instance) are at a bit of a distance. Is the diffuser taking care of it?

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Masha danke for sharing.
I loved your bunny ears !LOL

eric,
diffuser takes care of most of it - but I was not using a macro setting - i took all the shots in large/superfine format - got as close as I could (my camera will do raw but I've not used that yet) the shots in large format/super fine end up being between 4.5 and 7MB per picture - and then I cropped some of the "extra" off - the ones that wern't cropped were the easter bunny, green pseudochromis, rock beauty and file fish right after it, rock beauty in the sponge and the juvenile french angel (the one before the easter bunny)...

I took over 600 pictures and have 90 that I would consider good enough to print and save

great pics carl. it was great seeing you and jan. hope you had a pleasant trip home saturday. did jan get those bunny ears just for the trip or were they left over from one of her previous careers? tell her we said hi.

Carl...those all seem so familiar I just might have to steal the queen pic if mine didn't come out as nice as yours!!! Miss you and Jan, Bonbuds!!!

I have had one of those "coldiest" beers in Rincon and it was the "coldiest" I have EVER HAD!!

What type of fish is that with the big ears?!?! )
Love your pics, Carl!!

Bill, your post had me about to spew some of my coldiest beer LMAO

on our first or second visit to rose inn on this trip my beer was actually frozen. can't get much coldiester than that. the other times i had frost on the bottle but the beer wasn't frozen.