Well for those of you that are visting for the first time welcome and for those of you who are returning welcome back. Its been a while since I've posted anything but I'm comitting to change that moving forward.
For those of you who don't know me let me take a few minutes to tell you a little but about me. My life in diving began about six years ago when my wife wanted to go on vacation. Just sitting around on a beach used to drive me nuts with bordom. So I made my wife a deal, lets learn to dive so we can have something to do while on vacation and we'll go somewhere nice on vacation. I searched the area and found a couple dive shops to do the classroom and pool work locally. The first place I visited in Rochester left me with enough experiances to write a book on poor public relations. Needless to say I continued my search and decided to checkout another local shop in Royal Oak Michigan, Rec Diving.
Rec Diving was a breath of fresh air after my first experiance so I signed my wife and I up for lessons. The class room and pool instruction was great and after finishing up I signed us up to go on a group trip to Belize. Leading the trip was an instructor from the store and after finishing the checkout dives we enjoyed an incredable week of diving. That was the beginning ot the end for me, I was hooked.
After we got back from vacation my wife and I bought all of our own equipment and began diving in the small local lakes as well as the Great Lakes. By the end of my first summer I had taken most of the speciality classes that were offered and during the winter enrolled in the Dive Con course at Rec Diving. Dive Con is a combination of a Dive Master and an Assistant Instructor. Wow what a class, I learned so many technical aspects of diving I was even more hooked. After spending the next summer teaching and helping the Instructors at Rec Diving I decided to keep moving forward and entered the instructor program. After wrapping up the instructor program by the next summer I began teaching and continued to become an Advanced Open Water Instructor. Since then I've continued to learn as much as I can about diving. In late 2006 I completed all of my technical dive traning in Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Trimix and Advance Gas Blending.
One of my favorite passtimes while diving without question is photography. I began by getting a small point and shoot Olympus C-5050 with a housing also made by Olympus. While I had some luck and learned to get a few great shots with this camera I ran into a couple limitations pretty quickly, reaction speed and light.
Point and shoot cameras are a great size for people to get started with as their small and light weight. The first of downsides is the time delay between you push the button to fire the camera and it actually firing. This delay led to a lot of "fish butt" as many of the fish I was trying to capture moved quickly. The other downside is the light it could throw using the onboard flash. After about a year and a half I was talking to my friend of mine and he told be about the new Canon digital SLR and how fast it was. I began looking into it and it was time to make a move. I got a Canon 20D along with a couple Ikelite DS125 strobes. It was an entirly new experiance using this system. Please take a look at my photo gallery at some of the images I've been capturing.