Back to work!

     After another weekend of selling our photography under the beautiful Banyan Tree, we were back to leading dives and shooting pictures.  Mike and I usually work the tree on the weekends, while Dan drives the boat on Sundays for Lahaina Divers.  Dan gets his art fair on Wednesday's down in Wailea at the Four Seasons.  The art fairs are pretty fun, we get to meet a lot of people and talk about our dives.  It's funny to talk about our photos because it seems like it doesn't matter how much time has gone by we can remember the exact dive and even the situation that enabled us to get the photo.  The only problem we have is that we're not very good sales people, it always feels strange to push your own art?  We still sell pretty well, but we usually just wait until someone just loves one of our pieces so much that they have to have it.  It's probably amazing that we're still in business.
     Today we were back in the water.  We got to go looking for Hammerheads again with the hopes of some more close up photo's.  Much like Friday, We had no luck getting the pictures that we had hoped for.  But, much like Friday, we did have another cool day of diving.  We got to swim with about 200 Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins.

     I guess that we can't be too upset about not getting the Hammerhead shots that we want!  I wish that you could have been there to see them.  The whole group was getting a little bummed about not seeing as many sharks as we had all hoped, but then we started hearing the tell tale whistles and squeaks that give away the fact that dolphins are in the water nearby.  We started looking up towards the surface in all directions hoping to catch a glimpse.  The minutes passes as we waited and waited, we even stopped looking and went back to scanning the depths for the sharks.  Then all of a sudden a pod of 200 Spinners was right in our face.  What made the encounter really cool, is that they didn't just swim by real fast, they swam by slow, then they all turned and swam by again, and again, and again!  They swam through our groups 4 times.  It was great.  We'll attach a few photo's from the day to prove it.

     Oh yeah, we just finished making a short video of the Hawaiian Monk Seals from Friday.  Please check it out and see what you think.  It's pretty cute.  One of the customers at the camera store who reads the blog said we should put it up, so here it is:



Monk Seals from C3 Submerged on Vimeo.



Thanks for reading. We recieved a few really nice comments and emails about the last few blogs, thanks so much. As long as the ocean keeps providing us with adventures, we'll keep sharing.


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