Mr. Magoo the Lemon Shark

Diving in Jupiter Florida during the annual Lemon Shark Aggregation, we came across this guy who reminded me of Mr. Magoo - His eyes were off to the side and he...
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Diving in Jupiter Florida during the annual Lemon Shark Aggregation, we came across this guy who reminded me of Mr. Magoo - His eyes were off to the side and he kept bumping into all of the divers. He was curious, but harmless. About 2 seconds after I snapped the shutter here, he bumped me and knocked the strobes back off of my camera kit. Shot at 85 deep.

This is always a hard kind of photo to take. For underwater photography, the trick is not to get the flash to light up all the particles in the water and obscure the subject, but instead, light the subject alone. In this photo, there were two high power flashes... each strobe on my camera was pointing about 45 degrees away from this lemon shark. The column of light was overlapping on this sharks face/mouth/teeth. Exactly where I wanted it to be. Of course, to do this properly, you must be very close to the subject (as I was). That is kind of scary sometimes.

As for Sports, I'm a master diver and try to scuba dive as often as possible. In some cases, it takes enormous amounts of stamina (and I don't mean swimming away from sharks) and although not typically considered a "sport", every dive exercises each sense and muscle in my body.

Jupiter, Florida, USA
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