Dan, Great pictures! What a wonderful adventure... Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Bipin. > > No, I did not crop this image. This large green sea turtle rose up > from underneath me while I was snorkeling, and really was that close. > Here is one of the image showing an entire turtle: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15186694 > > After snorkeling on Molokini, a tiny semi-submerged volcanic crater > off the West coast of Maui, we went to a reef known for many turtles. > There were dozens who surfaced over a period of about 30 minutes. I > was able to swim up and behind several of them and obtain a few > images, using a Sea Life underwater compact digital camera. My > gallery of turtle photos from that dive are here: > > http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1026664 > > Thanks for looking and for you kind comments. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bipin Gupta <bip...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Vow Dan, enthralling capture of of this huge beauty. Did you crop some >> of this amphibian out? If yes, can you post the full shot. I guess you >> couldn't have been so close. >> I have played with these enormous creatures on the beaches of Oman near Sur. >> They come inland at night in hordes for laying eggs. And the eggs are >> very rubbery, soft, round and a bit larger than a pin pong ball. No >> photos though as flash is not allowed. They try to wade back back into >> the ocean before day break, but they become so weak that we had to >> push many of them back into the sea. They are a sight to behold in the >> moonlight - better than the seven wonders of the world. >> Bipin - from a far away enchanting land. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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