Hello everybody. Since I am an amateur diver, and after I got used to underwater a little and went through several diving courses and sometimes I began to take a camera with me, I decided — let these underwater photos not gather dust sadly and lonely on the hard drive of my computer. So from time to time I will do such posts — photo stories from under the water.
I know that these are definitely not photographic masterpieces, I still have to study underwater photography, and most importantly — to practice (there are some difficulties with this, since I do not live by the sea:)), but even now I sometimes have more or less successful shots and interesting things under water. At least I think so :) So, if you don't mind, let's go!
After novice divers study and feel more or less confident in open water (open water is considered when there is nothing overhead but water), almost inevitably he begins to be interested in all kinds of gorges, grottoes, arches and other places where you have to swim inside and sometimes swim further through — that is, when there is not only water around you in all directions or on one side of the wall along which you dive, but on two or more sides the space is limited by something.
These are gorges, for example — one of the first places where for the first time, turning around, I saw an image that is still with me - dark walls-borders, as if approaching from two sides and the blue of the water between them, somewhere in the distance, gradually brightening ... Or just such small through grottoes, through which you have to swim further. This requires a lot of control of your body underwater in order to swim into such holes between stones and not to hit anything with your equipment. Until now, I am very excited to swim in such places :)
Further, in theory, should follow the special courses of diving in caves and sunken objects (such as ships — wrecks ), because you can't seriously dive inside them without special training, it's for your own safety. Hopefully I'll get to that soon.
In the meantime, we mainly dive in the most open water. And when diving near wrecks, we inspect them from the outside and, perhaps, just a little, together with the instructor, we go inside, not far and for a short time.
However, I am still very interested in being in the water: there are so many things around, fish, algae, corals, jellyfish. Even if they are small, not like the ones that I have already shown, it is still funny — especially when there are a lot of them.
They float in the water, translucent and a bit mysterious.
It's not scary to touch such "babies" with a finger (gently for them, and I know for sure that they are not poisonous — there are practically no poisonous creatures in the Black Sea).
Sometimes other divers float next to them, but jellyfish are still more graceful :))
It's good in shallow water, the water is both clearer and lighter — it's easier to shoot and the photos are more vivid. You can see everything well, but deeper (up to a certain limit, of course) is often more interesting. I will dive more, I hope — and share with you!
Diver with white fins posing for me in today's photos — 
It's better to watch the photos in high resolution.
OLYMPUS E-M5 MarkII
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: F 1.8
Sensitivity: ISO 5000
Focal length: 8 mm
35 mm equivalent: 16 mm
You can also see my photos in my blog LJ and in my profile on NatGeo
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