Seychelles with the Club

Joss Woolf · Issue 77, Mar/Apr 2014 · pp. 58–63

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, Sea & Sea housing, Inon Z240 strobes, Tokina 10-17mm lens

It’s not often that I choose to go away with my dive club these days. Since my passion for underwater photography took a hold, ten years ago, the mere idea of being part of a mixed ability group of divers, let alone non-photographers, and being led at a pace impossible for taking anything other than snap shots, fills me with horror, choosing instead to join dedicated underwater photography trips. However, when, earlier this year, one of our club instructors decided to organise a trip to the Seychelles, where I had never been before and at an affordable price, the opportunity to “slip in” yet another trip was just too good to turn down. To manage my own expectations, I told myself that this would not be the photographic opportunity of a life- time and to just chill out with old friends – maybe even go diving without a camera occasionally, hmm… We had a couple of trainees in our group who …