Sub-Tidal Still-Life

My mood improves, goes up, the more time I spend down below . . . .

Below the Waterline

Let's go swimming!

Mendocino swimming.
5/4 surfing wetsuit with an integral hood.

Abalone Cove II

One Of Those Snails Is Not A Snail

Asilomar: Tidepooling

Kelp (Forest) Love

These shots aren't as crisp as I'd like, but I still like them.  I still like them as aids to memory.

Free Diving: Down, Around, and Up Again

Low visibility shots: hold your breath.

Mother-of-pearl, the decaying shell of an abalone, shining through the bottom rubble.

Slightly out of focus, as the swell pulls me away from the bottom.

Poor visibility--as often the case in California--but for me that increases the wonders when one swims down, swims close.

I wonder what's over there, through there.

Snails continuing sea urchin depredation?

A murky photo that catches the actual experience, I think.

Likewise, an overbright shot that reveals that shift from the dark depths, even just a dozen or so feet down, to the sunshine surface.  It was actually foggy up there, but the overbright contrast is due to my amphib-camera struggling to make that shift.