Embedding slideshows

I've been doing a lot of looking, reading and hopefully learning about the ways that you can integrate blogs, twitter and in this case, my Smugmug web site at adamhanlon.com In particular, wetpixel publisher, Eric Cheng (www.echeng.com) and contributors Cor Bosman (underwa.ter.net/) and Tony Wu (www.tonywublog.com) have unwittingly provided me with ideas and inspiration! Now all I need is time!

Cor has embedded a slideshow of one of his Smugmug galleries, and seeing the results, it looks great. So I thought I would try and do the same! This is a slideshow of a fantastic underwater adventure at the Farne Islands last September, when we were the center of attention for some very rowdy seals! I hope you enjoy it!

Taking the bow!

More black and white seal shots from the Farne Islands

Black and White seal

Fantastic seal diving at the Farnes

As a part of Alex Mustard's Northern tour(!) we went to Northumberland to dive on the Farne Islands. This island chain is well known for it's playful seals and we went with the express intention of trying to photograph them. We joined Paul Walker's excellent rib and spent an amazing hour and a half playing, interacting and photographing these wonderful creatures. The first dive was characterised by seals biting and tugging on our fins, biting my dome port shade and strobes and generally showing how poor our buoyancy control and propulsion techniques are! Photographically, the conditions were perfect. Bright sunshine and shallow water, with relatively calm water made for some great scenic shots. I found getting the exposure correct challenging, the brightness of the surface was too great a contrast with the bottom. Camera angle relative to the sun, and framing are the key though!

The picture above is one of Alex's of me taking the mouth picture below! I'll feed more pictures from the dive onto this blog over the next few weeks. It was an amazing dive-world class!