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Post by lugg on Sept 4, 2014 20:55:38 GMT
... the Red Sea in this instance. Just a few pics of some the most beautiful coral gardens I have ever seen.
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Post by htmb on Sept 5, 2014 0:39:16 GMT
Absolutely amazing, Lugg. What a treat it must have been to photograph such beauty. It appears the coral was not too far beneath the surface of the water. True?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2014 3:08:47 GMT
Lugg, I keep looking and looking at these jewel-like pictures. It's almost too much fabulousness for the mind to take in! I had no idea that the Red Sea was a mecca for diving. Did you go there just for that, or was this a side event that turned out to be wonderful? Gosh, you take good pictures!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 3:49:37 GMT
Great photos, which remind me of the Maldives, but I only went snorkeling the shallows there -- no deep water for me!
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Post by questa on Sept 5, 2014 6:14:20 GMT
Magnificent, Lugg. The clarity and brilliant colour make some look like stained glass windows, others like modern art. What were you shooting with?
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Post by lugg on Sept 5, 2014 6:52:32 GMT
Thank you for your kind comments all. Yes HTMB, all taken in shallow water - whilst snorkelling. A couple taken closer by free diving only.
Bixa - just for the snorkelling and R & R. K2 - the coral in the Red Sea is better than anything I have so far seen in the Maldives , although the marine life is much better in the Maldives in terms of opportunity to see the big stuff.
Questa - my trusty Panasonic FT2 which I have had for a number of years now.
The fact that the reef faced south helped enormously to take photos that captured the colours.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 19:18:36 GMT
Outrageously gorgeous pictures Lugg!!!
What a special special treat, my goodness.
I can't wait to show my husband these.
Thank you so much for these.
WOW.
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Post by lugg on Sept 13, 2014 7:50:36 GMT
Thank you Casi - hope your hub enjoys them too.
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Post by mossie on Sept 13, 2014 18:42:26 GMT
Some lovely coral from a rather special area. I do still remember all those years ago how clear the water was. I also remember swimming at Aqaba and standing on some sort of spiny fish, possibly a sea urchin? I spent several painful sessions with a needle winkling little stony bits of those spines out from the sole of one foot where they had penetrated the skin. For many years after periodically little blisters would spring up round my foot.
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Post by lugg on Sept 15, 2014 19:01:32 GMT
Ouch Mossie- that does sound like a sea urchin incident...
..it I indeed a very special place and in terms of tourism is just beginning to recover from the impact of the political unrest in Egypt. I have been lucky enough to visit several times and never cease to be mesmerised by the contrasts between the arid desert and mountains in the Sinai and the bountiful colour of the marine life in the Red Sea. Equally the contrast between the arid landscape of the Valley of the kings and the verdant green either side of the Nile in Luxor. Of course that is barely scratching the surface of Egypt which yours and Mark's posts have highlighted so well.
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