It’s that time of year… time for the recap of the 19th Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving held at Beaver Lake. We had a great turnout this year and even better weather. The high was 72˚ and sunny. Can you really ask for any better weather this time of year? The water was even a great …
Our summer trip this year headed for Cayman Brac with 13 divers for a week long excursion. Cayman Brac is part of the Cayman Islands and is located in the Caribbean Sea north-east of Grand Cayman and east of Little Cayman. The island itself is about 12 miles long with an average width of 1.2 …
What happens in Cozumel on the Grad-Ge-8-Shen trip, stays in Cozumel on the Grad-Ge-8-Shen Trip. Just kidding. Welcome to the second trip of the year. Check out the shenanigans that this group got into… With 10 of us, surely we couldn’t have caused that much trouble, right? Just wait! Our first day, we decided that …
February, wait Nicole, this is August. Yes, I know it’s August but I realized that we never blogged about the 2 Week Cozumel Trip in February. So it’s about time before we forget until the next February 2017 trip! Holy Cow. There aren’t many months left in the year. So the weather before we arrived …
Boy do I ever have the interview for you today… Have you met Glen Faith? Do you even know who that is? Well, if you’ve been to Mermet Springs, surely more than once you’ve seen him as he is the mastermind evil genius… I mean the owner of Mermet Springs in Metropolis, Illinois. Last September …
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A few months ago while I was sitting here at the shop, Deb brought a flier in to try and make me “jealous” of a new BC that SCUBAPRO was coming out with. At the time I kind of laughed and said… I have a BC, I’m good. She and Mark then taunted me that …
Safari Hunt Day, Safari Hunt Day! Say it like the British are coming… maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, but either way, this past Saturday was Safari Hunt Day! This is a fun event that we look forward to every year. It happens in June and it is a fundraiser event for the Newton County …
Who is ready for this year’s Safari Hunt, Raise your Hand! Okay put your hand down, if you’re reading this around people, they probably think your nuts… You’re welcome. So this year we thought it would be fun to do animal introductions so you could see in advance who you’re looking for. They are now …
If you have spent any time around people who are majorly into photography and I’m not talking about people who like pictures, I’m talking photographers; those people who spend a lot of time studying techniques on ISO settings and aperture settings and shutter speed settings and the rule of thirds, etc, then you’ve probably heard …
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White Balance. You’ve heard people talk about setting a white balance or that the white balance is off, but what exactly is White Balance? A camera records a picture in RGB (Red, Green, Blue) or some combination of the three to make up the colors of the light spectrum. These are the primary colors of …