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Underwater Gallery
Here’s a gallery of some more of my shots from St. Kitts and Saba aboard the Caribbean Explorer II. My camera is an Olympus XZ-1 inside the Olympus PT-050 Underwater housing. Lighting was done using a...
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Rays
At the request of my friend, Madame Weebles, I’m posting a few shots from our visit to Grand Cayman last year. All of the stingray photos were taken at a dive site called Stingray City. There has been...
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Stress, Rescue and Confidence
Two Trunkfish by Cathy Ulrich I have a long-standing policy about diving. That is: I don’t dive where it’s cold and I don’t dive where I can’t see. Last weekend I did both. Peter and I completed our...
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Search Term Verse
Saba Coony by Cathy Ulrich Underwater purple freeflowing regulator used my lungs to ache stream saba fish Vortex energy recovered from fever needed sunshione fresh air self expressing bumper stickers...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
This week’s challenge was to create a gallery of photos that show off the word and color green. I brought together a gallery of nine pictures taken in various places. Images that I think represent...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Surprise!
Scuba Weeble by Cathy Ulrich This photo includes a little backstory: In November, Madame Weebles created a contest to raise money for Movember. Being extremely camera-shy, she decided to post nine...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Illumination
Juan Carlos in the Cenote by Cathy Ulrich For this week’s photo challenge, I chose a shot I took while diving in the Cenotes on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Peter and I did several guided cave...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique
Orange Frog Fish by Cathy Ulrich Here’s my interpretation of “Unique” – an elusive and unusual creature that I encountered on my scuba trip to St. Kitts in the Caribbean last summer. This Frogfish was...
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My Fairy Castle
Fairy Castle “At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale might be slightly different than you dreamed....
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Sunday Haiku #5
For this week’s Haiku challenge, I chose a shot from our last scuba trip to St. Kitt’s. This gorgeous creature is now a menace to the reefs in the Caribbean. As a non-indigenous species (it hails from...
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Curious
Honduran Squid luminescent squid hovering curiously spacecraft of the sea Filed under: Blogging, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Underwater Photography Tagged: Blogging, Cathy Ulrich, Haiku,...
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Night Dive
Caribbean Octopus by Cathy Ulrich Caribbean blue Tentacled Cephalopod I’ll turn my light off Filed under: Blogging, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Scuba Diving, Underwater Photography Tagged:...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – In the Background
In the Background Here’s my interpretation of “In the Background” for this week’s challenge. It’s a portrait of Peter scuba diving off the island of St. Kitts in the Eastern Caribbean with his new best...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – The Golden Hour
Bastienne Harbor and Nevis The Golden Hour – whether after sunrise or before sunset – that time that we photographers seek. When shadows lengthen and the light softens, magic happens in front of our...
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Bonaire Turtle
Bari Reef Turtle Well, the diving has commenced and I thought I’d share a shot from our afternoon dive on Bari Reef here in Bonaire. As we were returning to the shore, we saw not one, not two, but...
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Dancing in Bonaire
Bonaire is such a festive place during the holidays. One sees decorations everywhere. I love Christmas lights in palm trees. It just takes a small shift of perspective to see the beauty of our...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – One
Spotted Cleaner Shrimp One spotted cleaner shrimp on a white anemone. This thing is tiny, ya’ll – like 1/4 inch! I so love my underwater camera – an Olympus XZ-1. I can shoot RAW shots and save big...
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Freddie the Frog-fish
Freddie the Frogfish Another shot from the coral reefs of Bonaire, here’s the elusive Freddie. He’s a Frog-fish. A member of the Anglerfish family, Freddie “fishes” for his food by dangling a worm-like...
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Movie Monday – Dolphins!
As we were heading out in the boat for our morning dive, we looked out to the starboard side and saw a huge disturbance on the surface of the water – then dorsal fins. What ensued was a dance between...
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Movie Monday – Reef Life
Still getting used to the GoPro, but here’s my latest attempt – footage from our recent dives in Bonaire. We’re going skiing this coming weekend, so stay tuned for next week’s Movie Monday. And have a...
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