by Harriet | Jul 12, 2019 | Under the Sea Photography
Another double-day-off, another diving adventure! Since I enjoyed my last trip to Dauin so much, I did the same thing this time, but this time I signed on to a day trip to Apo Island. We did three dives and they were absolutely incredible. We saw turtles, nudibranchs,...
by Harriet | May 31, 2019 | Under the Sea Photography
Taking a trip down memory lane here, but I figured I might as well start at the beginning. I am a marine biologist and I love diving, SCUBA and free-diving, although I have no formal training in the latter! I have been SCUBA diving since 2012 and I am an SSI Dive...
by Harriet | May 19, 2019 | Under the Sea Photography
Give me an excuse to go diving and I’ll usually be there faster than you can say SCUBA. A double day off sounded like a decent excuse to me so I made my way to Dauin, a beachside town in Negros Oriental, Philippines. I did two dives, one on the sandy slope and one on...
by Harriet | May 11, 2019 | Under the Sea Photography
Since moving to the Philippines and being in the water almost every day, I have gotten a lot better at free-diving, so I can actually take half decent underwater pictures without needing to SCUBA dive now! I still love SCUBA diving, don’t get me wrong, but now I...
by Harriet | Nov 12, 2018 | Under the Sea Photography
For my MSc I moved to York, which is a beautiful city, but annoyingly far away from the sea. Due to this, I only managed to do one dive day, but boy was it a good one! The Farne Islands are in Northumbria, a three hour drive north from York. I went in the middle of...
by Harriet | Apr 6, 2018 | Under the Sea Photography
Another trip to a fabulous location in the name of science! As a part of my MSc in Marine Environmental Management I had the opportunity to spend just under two weeks in the Maldives on a coral reef ecology field course. We were based in Faafuu Atoll on Magoodhoo and...