The Next Morning
I got a call from Sam early in the afternoon asking if I could
scan four slides he had of Laureen diving while they were on vacation
last week on Grand Cayman Island. Meet for a beer at PCB around four,
take off early from work. Good idea, I don't get over to PCB very
often and I hadn't seen the both of them together since Thanksgiving.
I included two of the four slides taken by the dive instructor as
today's photographs. It brings back memories of my own diving when I was
in college. I didn't do any underwater photography then and the only
regular out of water stuff I did was with a medium format twin lens
reflex I'd purchased in high school, although I thought about it and
checked underwater camera housing prices (ugh! and ouch!). Unlikely I'd
ever do it again, taking one of my Nikons down to a place where its
survival depended on my remembering to tighten some wing nut when I can't
remember to rewind the film before I open up the camera to reload, and,
oh yeah, there's a thingy you have to tighten to connect the air
regulator to the tank if you want to breathe while you're under
water and there's probably other stuff they've added in the last three
decades with thingies of their own. Still, nice photograph, warm clear
water. And it's in focus.
PCB, as you might guess, is a brewery pub and although I got back
home before 8:00 last night, I was in no condition to write an entry so
I put it off til this (the next) morning.