From the depths…

December 2008

Relaunched

If you’ve found this page, then you were probably searching for something related to scuba diving (or, more likely it appears, from my Google Analytics reports, how to upload quicktime to YouTube).

However, this blog is now officially zombied. I’ve relaunched the site as a photography blog, reflecting how I’m spending more of my spare time.

Please click through to here and read on.

Posted to freeflow on Dec 13 · Continue reading…

December 2007

Last chance to post this year

It’s 8:30pm on New Year’s Eve – last chance to post anything on this much neglected site this year.

2007 hasn’t included too much in the way of diving…

Posted to freeflow on Dec 31 · Continue reading…

July 2007

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from the editor of ECOS magazine, the house publication of Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), asking permission to use a photo included on this site to illustrate an article to be featured in an upcoming issue.

The photo in question was of me (plus a few fish) and was taken by Alice while she was doing her PADI Underwater Photography Specialty. Of course, we were happy to oblige, and now the photo is duly published!

Posted to freeflow on Jul 20 · Continue reading…

April 2007

Diving Port Arthur

Final video installment from our January 2007 Australia trip: a short clip from a couple of dives in Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula.

A passing storm system on the weekend we arrived created a high swell that meant the boat was unable to venture out into open water. Instead we dived a (more or less) random location on the south east shore of Port Arthur.

Posted to videos on Apr 20 · Continue reading…

Colorado: a long way from the ocean

As is probably evident by now, new content has been lacking from this site for a while. The excuse? We’ve been busy relocating from London to Colorado, where we expect to be for the next couple of years.

A glance at a map will show that Colorado is rather a long way from the sea: 950 miles to the Gulf of Mexico, 770 to the Sea of Cortez, 830 miles to the Pacific coast, and 1480 to the Atlantic. That’s about as far as I ever want to live from the ocean.

Posted to freeflow on Apr 20 · Continue reading…

February 2007

Weedy sea dragons

Despite the weather being against us, I did manage to capture a few sequences of weedy seadragons on our recent trip to Tasmania. Luckily for me, I had Keith Martin-Smith, the University of Tasmania’s resident seadragon expert, on hand to show me where to look.

Posted to videos on Feb 03 · Continue reading…

January 2007

HMAS Brisbane revisited

15 months on from our first visit, we took the opportunity to dive the HMAS Brisbane again in January 2007 to see how the marine life on the ship had developed.

If you compare the clip with our last visit, it’s immediately obvious that the density of fish life has increased significantly, particularly around the bows, where we spent a good chunk of our dive.

Posted to videos on Jan 31 · Continue reading…

YouTube upload quality

It appears that uploading to YouTube isn’t always completely straightforward. I’ve had a few enquiries via e-mail in recent weeks from people who’ve found that their videos, once processed on YouTube, have degraded in quality to an unsatisfactory degree

I’m told that the quality of the vids I’ve uploaded looks relatively good. So, if anyone’s interested in the settings I’m using, here goes…

Posted to freeflow on Jan 30 · Continue reading…

Back from Oz

I got back home from Australia a week ago. Compared with our normal trips, this wasn’t especially intended as a dive holiday, but I still managed a handful of dives.

We revisited the HMAS Brisbane (which we last dived in October 2005) and then made some dives around South East Tasmania.

Alice took the photo above near Remarkable Cave by Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula (here). Suffice it to say that the weather wasn’t like this the whole time we were there…

Posted to freeflow on Jan 22 · Continue reading…

November 2006

On [and off] the grid

This site has been hosted on mediatemple for well over a year now. (I can’t even remember the name of the old hosting company, but suffice it to say that service was random at best.)

Mediatemple recently released a new product (gs) Grid-Server, replacing their shared server offering. As a dedicated early adopter, I switched within a couple of weeks.

Posted to freeflow on Nov 18 · Continue reading…

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