Pictures from Red Sea Trip November 2007

Second time out with my recently acquired Canon Powershot 540. Still getting used to its features and making the odd mistake. The quality of the video is much better than the old Olympus though I am still wrestling with its macro features for close up work. The pre-set white balance mode for U//W is helpful. It was noticeable how much less blue there was in my natural light pictures compared to Richards pictures taken with an upmarket but older model Olympus..

If you click on any pictures which have a black background, you can link to a video clip. These are being added slowly as they take a long time to prepare


Ashraf our long suffering dive guide aboard Blue Planet 1	Angel fish at Ras Mohammed

Clown Fish	Clown Fish

Conch Shell	Nudi branch, not sure what flavour

Side of the Carnatctic with lovely hard Corals	Small crab ay The Alternatives

Crocodile Fish on the deck of the Markos	Featherstar on night dive

Rocker Arm and valve spring on the Giannis D engine, The rocker arm is about 1 meter long overall	Grouper minding his flock of glass fish inside the Carnactic

Lion Fish on the prowl during a night dive	Lion Fish on the prowl during a night dive

Moray with cleaner wrasse in its mouth - Yolanda Reef	Helmet Crab on Beacon Rock night dive

Nice big Moray on our first dive of the trip too	Free swimming Moray on Yolanda

Nudibranch on Giannis D	Nudibranch on the Markos

Jumping in for a night dive	Hanging on the line after our first dive

Nice orange soft corals - The Alternatives	Parrot Fish trying to get some sleep

Small Pipe Fish	Another small pipe fish

Me taken by Richard. You can see what I meant about the blue overtones	Small puffer fish sleeping on top of a coral

It was the unusual purple colour that attracted me to this coral head	Lion Fish trying to get some sleep during the daytime./

Scorpion Fish on Bluff Point	Banded Shrimp - The Alternatives

Doing our check dive tests	Snake Anenome

Not a piece of muslin but an egg case from a Spanish dancer	Surgeon Fish on top of the reef at Small Passage

Ugly devil - A small Stone Fish	Another small Stone Fish

Sweet Lips	Tim Dews posing on the Carnactic

Christmas Tree Worm	Christmas Tree Worm

Christmas Tree Worms	Nudibranch