Stoney Cove - Oct 06
Initially I said no thank you…… puddle diving is not my thing…..despite everything being blown out at the weekend I really didn’t want to go to Stoney. However, after a little reflection I decided that perhaps there may be a good reason to go to Stoney. I had for some time been toying with the idea of shooting some pictures in RAW. I kept hearing that the results can be so much better, particularly with the sort of photographic conditions we have here with our temperate green water (aka pea soup at times), but had never got round to it.
Knowing that it would mean a lot of work i.e. downloading plugins etc and trying to familiarise myself with yet more new stuff on the computer I had been putting it off. I am an IT numpty and find computer stuff difficult and trying to do ‘new things’ very stressful particularly when it just doesn’t do what it’s meant to. However I thought this would be too good an opportunity to miss, as I wouldn’t be wasting a good sea dive taking pictures that might not come out because I hadn’t a clue what I was doing.
As it was a Monday morning and the others were driving from Cardiff we had a very civilised meeting time of ten o’clock. I would never go to Stoney at a weekend and I really cannot get my head round why people would leave home in the middle of the night so that they could start queuing by five or six o’clock just to dive a quarry. I have left for a dive in the middle of the night but that was the Thistlegorm…..a tad different!
Turned out to be a really nice day, weather was a bit gloomy but we had a great couple of dives doing the usual and visiting the Stangarth, Wessex helicopter, Nautilus, etc.
Although I need a lot more practise with the processing bit I was quite pleased with a few of the pics for a first try.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Blimey…..the photos make the place look quite nice!
Nick