Photos from Istanbul!

I've put up a few photos from my trip to Istanbul!

This is the view of the Blue Mosque from our hotel.

This is the Aya Sofya, an amazing building!

There are some more photos in the gallery here:

2012 Istanbul, Turkey

Cozume diving picture tease

Started uploading pictures from our trip to Cozumel for some Diving. So far only a few inidivudal dives and a big 'blob' off all the pictures in their 'RAW' format (no culling the bad ones, no croping, etc). Anyway, you can take a peek here.

Updating my scuba pictures

I've decided to install another copy of Gallery2 to manage my pictures. This will make it easier for me to manage over the long term than my previous method of creating individual directories with HTML wrappers on it. Anyway, http://rich.whiffen.org/pictures is live. I've started uploading pictures now and will be putting more up over time. Then the hard part of going back and editing the descriptions and such. It never ends.

The Scuba section is here and the "Misc Pictures" is here. That's all there is so far.

Right now I have scuba pictures broken down by year, but it occurs to me that by location might be a better choice. So don't be surprised if it changes back and forth a few times over the next few weeks as I change my mind. I tend to do that it seems.

Pictures of Diving in Croatia

I've posted the pictures I took while diving in Croatia. More details to come, this is just a big dump of photos, no narrative or timeline.

More to come...

UPDATE (12/2/2008): I've migrated to a 'gallery2' system to manage my photos. The link to the pictures has been updated accordingly.

New Dive Camera!

Bought a new dive camera for my trip to Croatia. It was touch and go for a bit there. Flight was Friday afternoon and they were supposed to arrive Friday morning. Well, the timing worked out and I'm the proud owner of a DC800 from sealife.

It's an 8Mp camera and housing combination. It has 3 underwater photo modes (I'm still learning how all that works). I have quite a backlog of photos and posts to get through but hopefully once that's all done I'll be able to write a bit more about the camera. So far it's great, but the shutter speed isn't as fast as i'd like some times. And I did manage to crash the camera while on a dive. It does take some great pictures though.

My dive buddy had his xeon flashlight illuminating the fish, so that's why it's eye is an odd color. More on dive lights instead of strobes later too hopefully.