These will be the only wide angle underwater shots I'll be sharing from our Wakatobi trip. With all the macro-life on the reefs there, I simply couldn't bring myself to take the 100mm macro lens off my camera. I didn't feel I was getting great wide angle shots, and I was having too much fun with the macro stuff to try more.

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM at 10mm, 1/100th sec at f/5. ISO 100 (Auto). Ikelite Housing and Port with Ikelite 161 Strobe at full power. Modified version auto-color-correction in Photoshop Elements 8.0.

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM at 20mm, 1/32nd sec at f/5.7. ISO 100 (Auto). Ikelite Housing and Port with Ikelite 161 Strobe at full power. Modified version auto-color-correction in Photoshop Elements 8.0.

Mouseover the images for the originals. All in all, there isn't much to talk about with these shots - they're far from special - something I will have to try working on next time we go diving (unless there's enough macro life to work with again!).

One thing I will say about Wakatobi's reefs at this point is that before this trip I really didn't have an appreciation for the term coral garden. Almost every dive was what is called a wall dive, which is (as the name implies) a vertical wall where all the corals and life grow. At the end of most of those dives, we would surface up onto the level area above the wall (usually in about 10-15 feet of water), and there you would just see corals of every variety spreading out as far as you could see. It truly was beautiful, and I am a bit disappointed that I didn't do a better job of capturing a photo to show that to others.

I guess I just have to go back and try again....

- Bill