To all our Divers and all our avid photographers,
While it’s everyone’s wish to have that perfect dive or to capture that perfect moment,
There’s much controversy abt how we get that,
There’s many esteemed and prestige u/w photographers out there that have inspired many land loving guys into our loving sport called Scuba diving.
But questions uncontrollably comes to or mind on how did he manage to get such a shot,
Other then fantastic cameras, lens and strobes that come into play,
What really gets to me is the opportunity, the opportunity of the fantastic marine animal posing for the perfect shot,
We know a lot of our Pro photo guys spent tons on time in the water just waiting for the moment and i salute them for that, but how abt the other guys,
My buddy has an photo blog and this topic came up just a while ago and it really sent me into thinking, his site (http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html)

Just check these out,
http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/07/david_doubilets.php

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player?titleID=1531204600

Question at the end of the day, is always, so what are we going to do ?

Umbrella fish

Bottlefish

Bagfish

You can read more from SPH website – http://www.sph.com.sg/news/latest/press_070727_001.html

The Effects of Bottled Water on the Environment

It is hard to argue the fact that waste management has become a large problem in the world, with landfills growing to enormous sizes and recycling rates remaining dismally low. The number of plastic bottles produced by the bottled water industry and subsequently discarded by consumers has only exacerbated this problem.

According to a 2001 report of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), roughly 1.5 million tons of plastic are expended in the bottling of 89 billion liters of water each year.

Besides the sheer number of plastic bottles produced each year, the energy required to manufacture and transport these bottles to market severely drains limited fossil fuels. Bottled water companies, due to their unregulated use of valuable resources and their production of billions of plastic bottles have presented a significant strain on the environment.

The authors of the WWF report suggested that water bottles be washed and reused in order to lessen their negative impact on the environment. Unfortunately, reusing plastic bottles further compromises the quality of the water, due to the fact that more and more phthalate leaches its way into the water as the bottle gets older. In another suggestion, the authors recommended that bottled water companies use local bottling facilities in order to lessen fuel expenditures for transportation needs. Regrettably, local bottling further compromises water quality due to the reduced health standards for in-state bottled water production and consumption. It seems there is no feasible solution to this problem. The bottled water industry causes a severe strain on the environment, but solutions to this environmental damage significantly lessen the quality of water in the bottles.

Source: http://www.allaboutwater.org/environment.html

Amazing Octopus

since shaun’s gonna be away for a month or so, this is one of those pictures taken at the regular gill dinner table between jacki, shaun and mon. there’s som this time round. as always, its the fried egg with tomato, some vegetables, rice and hor fun.

maybe they should start considering going downstairs cos its saves plastic, styrofoam and wood as well. right right right? so get off the computer jacki and go downstairs and breathe some fresh air!

dinner table at gill

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Gill Team