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Sorry for the delay in response! We’ve been back a week but after picking up a bug in Bali and another one on the plane home and heading straight back into work, I am WAY behind!
Anyway, hope you two had a great few weeks! And @billkuiper I am so excited for you to go to Lembeh! After our time there….you just wait! It is SO good!
As for IG versus FB, I had FB for a while but it got too much for me. I just wanted to see photos- not read about political/religious/current event stances. Now granted, IG is getting that way too but I still just love the photos. It is (like you said) a great way to find people from yesteryear, find new people with similar interests and stay connected when you do! My current beef with IG is how good its algorithm is- I follow a lot of conservation photographers and organizations so my feed is a lot of animal entanglements, shark-finning victims, and plastic pollution. It sometimes gets very overwhelming – really good to see these topics getting exposure but I just wish there were more good news stories to go along with them, you know what I mean?
I haven’t heard of Flickr…adding that to the list to check out!
ANYWAY, ONTO LEMBEH! @rschifreen You got any other fabulous pics you want to share?! Those little shaunies are great! And how you can see the eyes on that one?! SO GOOD! So, let me tell you two a tale of my shaun the sheep experience. First, I knew they were small. I wasn’t, however, tracking on the fact that they were MICROSCOPIC. 😅 At least the ones I saw were. Like 10 grains of sand lumped together, big. BUT once you know what you’re looking for @billkuiper , you’ll find them, no problem! And, of course, the dive guides know their habitat and will point them out. It’s just amazing that these TINY little things exist in that big ocean…and I found a handful. So, now, let’s talk about trying to photograph the little buggars.
I know there’s a place where there are no waves, surge, or any movement whatsoever and you can stay, suspended, perfectly, unwaveringly buoyant millimeters above the sand without kicking up so much as a pebble. There’s a place where the leaves don’t move and neither do the shaunies on them. There’s a place where they are always front-facing and always looking into the camera with their little rosy cheeks. AND there is a camera that knows not to focus on the rhinophores or the cerata that float in front of their face but actually focus on their face no matter what. There is a diopter that works fantastically well with auto-focus so that I don’t have to guess when I have their face (and not said appendages) in manual focus. And finally, there is a depth of field that goes far deeper than f22 does at that distance. The place where I found my shaunies was NOT that place. 🤣
Oh, but really, I had such a fabulous time photo’ing them and all the critters in Lembeh! Such a wonderful place! If you can @billkuiper do a mandarin dive and blackwater/bonfire dive if you haven’t already! OH, and one of my favorite dive sites was Nudi Falls. I’m sure that the different resorts share the dive sites. That one is just beautiful! Save some air for exploring under the boat at the end of the dive though. There’s a ton to see in the shallows!
Alright, signing off for now! Have a great week, you guys!