04/05/10: Walking the Flats
I recently joined Francisco, Enrique, and Ramiro to visit St. Joseph.
St. Joseph is a group of islands in the north-west of Desroches, about one hour and a quarter with the boat on calm sea. The islands are sitting on the edge of an atoll with a lagoon, and there are lots of flats that you can walk on in between, in ankle to belly deep water, depending on the tides.
Francisco, Enrique, and guide Ramiro did their fly fishing. I took pictures. The scenery is breathtaking, and the photographs cannot really do justice to the real beauty, but hopefully convey some of it nevertheless. The colors of the water and the sky are continuously changing, making you think at first to have a white balance problem with the camera... Turn around a few degrees and have yet another awesome scenery in front of you. (I can only try to imagine how it would be to shoot in the "golden light" times of the day around sunrise and sunset, not in the harsh light during the day as with the pictures below.)
Turtles and small rays are swimming in the shallow water, basically around your feet.
An awesome experience.
(St. Joseph can be difficult to impossible to reach during the south-east monsoon season somewhere between May and October, due to the rough sea.)
For photographers: 24-105 mm f/4.0 and 17-40 mm f/4.0 lens on a Canon EOS 5D, ISO 100, mostly f/8 and f/9, 1/125 to 1/1000s, circular polarizing filter, hand-held
St. Joseph is a group of islands in the north-west of Desroches, about one hour and a quarter with the boat on calm sea. The islands are sitting on the edge of an atoll with a lagoon, and there are lots of flats that you can walk on in between, in ankle to belly deep water, depending on the tides.
Francisco, Enrique, and guide Ramiro did their fly fishing. I took pictures. The scenery is breathtaking, and the photographs cannot really do justice to the real beauty, but hopefully convey some of it nevertheless. The colors of the water and the sky are continuously changing, making you think at first to have a white balance problem with the camera... Turn around a few degrees and have yet another awesome scenery in front of you. (I can only try to imagine how it would be to shoot in the "golden light" times of the day around sunrise and sunset, not in the harsh light during the day as with the pictures below.)
Turtles and small rays are swimming in the shallow water, basically around your feet.
An awesome experience.
(St. Joseph can be difficult to impossible to reach during the south-east monsoon season somewhere between May and October, due to the rough sea.)
For photographers: 24-105 mm f/4.0 and 17-40 mm f/4.0 lens on a Canon EOS 5D, ISO 100, mostly f/8 and f/9, 1/125 to 1/1000s, circular polarizing filter, hand-held
Posted by: Stefan
04/05/10 16:40:17
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