Fish fish fish! Been diving again! (Image heavy!!!!)

[Fezant Pluckah]

Oi's been diving again, this time to St John's Reef & Fury Shoals in Egypt's southern waters.

It was overcast for the first 3 days, and windy all week, so not ideal conditions. But then again the diving was pretty average to be honest. Not particularly impressed if the truth be known...

Anyway, got some piccies, so thought I'd share a few...

Enjoy.

Parrot fish


Coral trout and fire coral


Diver and fan coral


Fairy basslets


Fairy basslets and diver


Clownfish and anemone


Soft corals and diver


Fairy basslets


Soft corals


Goatfish


Diver in channel


Soft corals and diver


Fire coral and divers


Under de boatie


Little cuttlefish on night dive


Porcupinefish on night dive


Crab on night dive


Sleepy parrotfish


Lionfish


Lemon goby


Masked butterflyfish


Clownfish and anemone. The little dark dots in the bottom RH corner are the clownfishs' eggs


Blue spotted stingray


Yellow soft coral


Batfish in shipwreck


Anyone need a dump?


Fire coral and divers


Firecoral and tenders


Giant pufferfish


Wreck of sailing boat


Grouper hunting glassfish and golden sweepers in abnove wreck


Golden sweepers in above wreck


Our boat above coral


Fairy basslets on reef


More of the same with soft corals


Soft coral. Shame no diver in piccie...


Juvenile lionfish


Snapper on reef top


Masked butterflyfish


Batfish


Hawksbill turtle with remoras in seagrass bed

Edited by Fezant Pluckah on Friday 7th May 11:04

[TubbyRutter]

Looks ace, i'm out there later in the month but doubt i'll be taking a camera below depths!

[Penny-lope]

Snapper on coral, and diver in channel are both ace photos

(okay, they are all ace, but I really like those two )

[Red16]

Great shots there

What camera kit are you using?

[Fezant Pluckah]

I've just gone from a Nikon D70 to a D300 in a Sea & Sea housing. All the wide angle shots were taken with a Tokina 10-17 and the macro shots either with a Nikon 60mm macro or a Sigma 18-50 macro.

I'm now throwing away my Nikon 12-24. Completely redundant now I've got the Tokina!

[Dogsey]

Lovely as usual Jimbo!

[Fezant Pluckah]

Dogsey said:

Lovely as usual Jimbo!

Cheers dogsey.

PS And so are you

[john185k]

Awesome, I love the ones with the other divers in them

[Simpo Two]

Fezant Pluckah said:

I've just gone from a Nikon D70 to a D300 in a Sea & Sea housing. All the wide angle shots were taken with a Tokina 10-17 and the macro shots either with a Nikon 60mm macro or a Sigma 18-50 macro.

Hang on, there are two items in that list you didn't get from Simpo Cameras Inc!

[10JH]

Fantastic photos, I'm truly jealous!

[havoc]

Great photos as always...does make me wonder about getting a proper waterproof rig for one of the Canons.

Fezant Pluckah said:

Giant pufferfish

We had one of them in the shallows 'haranguing' us for food when we were on a boat-trip around the lagoon in Aitutaki - big ol' boy, esp. with that beak!

[Red16]

Fezant Pluckah said:

I've just gone from a Nikon D70 to a D300 in a Sea & Sea housing. All the wide angle shots were taken with a Tokina 10-17 and the macro shots either with a Nikon 60mm macro or a Sigma 18-50 macro.

I'm now throwing away my Nikon 12-24. Completely redundant now I've got the Tokina!

Very nice... I'll have to make do with my Panasonic Lumix TZ5 and DMW-MCTZ5 underwater housing, since i havent got the spare money to splash on a fancy housing for my Nikon D90. PS I love my Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Do you use an external strobe/flash?

[LukeBird]

Fantastic stuff!

[oobster]

Stunning images - well done!

[Medic-one]

Stunning pictures mate.

Really want to go back to Egypt now, actually made me feel a bit homesick (am half Egyptian, grew up there).

[Fezant Pluckah]

Red16 said:

Fezant Pluckah said:

I've just gone from a Nikon D70 to a D300 in a Sea & Sea housing. All the wide angle shots were taken with a Tokina 10-17 and the macro shots either with a Nikon 60mm macro or a Sigma 18-50 macro.

I'm now throwing away my Nikon 12-24. Completely redundant now I've got the Tokina!

Very nice... I'll have to make do with my Panasonic Lumix TZ5 and DMW-MCTZ5 underwater housing, since i havent got the spare money to splash on a fancy housing for my Nikon D90. PS I love my Sigma 10-20mm lens.

Do you use an external strobe/flash?

Yes, I do. I use 2 Sea & Sea strobes. Built in flashes are no good for underwater photography, whatever the camera or the subject.

Fezant Pluckah said:

Dogsey said:

Lovely as usual Jimbo!

Cheers dogsey.

PS And so are you

I'd just like to clarify what I said here

When I said "And so are you" I didn't mean dogsey's lovely. Cos of course we all know he's not. On another forum he called me a so I was merely commenting that he was one too.... I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I do NOT find dogsey lovely in anyway at all

[Del 203]

Fezant Pluckah said:

Fezant Pluckah said:

Dogsey said:

Lovely as usual Jimbo!

Cheers dogsey.

PS And so are you

I'd just like to clarify what I said here

When I said "And so are you" I didn't mean dogsey's lovely. Cos of course we all know he's not. On another forum he called me a so I was merely commenting that he was one too.... I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I do find dogsey lovely

What a pair of 's




ETA: Nice snaps lanky

Edited by Del 203 on Monday 10th May 13:01

[crmcatee]

Some cracking shots there.

[Dogsey]

Fezant Pluckah said:

Fezant Pluckah said:

Dogsey said:

Lovely as usual Jimbo!

Cheers dogsey.

PS And so are you

I'd just like to clarify what I said here

When I said "And so are you" I didn't mean dogsey's lovely. Cos of course we all know he's not. On another forum he called me a so I was merely commenting that he was one too.... I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I do find dogsey lovely

Liar!

Del 203 said:

What a pair of 's




ETA: Nice snaps lanky

Edited by Del 203 on Monday 10th May 13:01

Up yours Grandad!