The sound of the anchor winch motor and the dropping of the anchor itself shook me out of bed early this morning as we arrived at the Namena Marine Reserve where we will spend the next two days. Fortunately, the crew time the overnight travel so that we always arrive in the early morning just in time to start the day. This cacophony of sound and vibrations has become our wake up call.
Before each dive, I find myself second guessing whether to use my wide angle or macro lens on my camera. It is very time consuming to swap between them, and I can’t use both during a single dive, so I have to choose. I usually like to shoot wide angle during the late morning and early afternoon dives because that is when the sun is highest in the sky and then shoot macro for the rest, but sometimes I mix it up. And, sometimes mother nature decides for you and gives you cloudy skies and rain all day, so you stick with macro.
Even though this photograph is technically not “macro”, I used that lens to get a tighter framing on this clown fish hiding inside the anemone.