South West Ramblings

Mark Webster · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 63–67

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, Subal ND2, 105mm micro lens, Inon wet lens, Inon Quad flash

Regular readers of this much revered periodical will know that I have enormous enthusiasm for UK diving and, although I spend a large part of my year working away from home, I am fortunate enough to live in an area that offers fantastic diving. I thought it might be useful to start a series of short articles discussing dives sites, finding subjects, equipment choice and techniques used to capture particular images. As a confirmed Luddite I would be horrified to think I was writing a blog, so I will describe this as an occasional diary of events and observations, but maybe that is the same thing in the modern parlance? I will leave you to judge that for yourselves. Little and Large At the mega fauna end of the scale this year has been another poor one for basking sharks in the south west, which may have been around in larger numbers but have been difficult to spot due to rougher seas. At …