This weekend I got the camera in the water and started taking pictures of the underwater world.  I did some diving from shore and off the boat, in shallow water just to test the camera out.  I got some vice shots and the camera works great, still need some practices with the buttons on the back but that will come with time.  This week I am planing on heading out to Mount Desert Rock to look at some wreck sites as well as see some seals. I hope this trip off shore will be the first chance to start getting some photos of wrecks.  More updates to come soon.

On Tuesday I got to Backscatter East and got a Olympus Pen -PL2 and a housing for it.  Fred Doin who runs Backscatter East, also fixed a focus light up for me while I was there, which will make taking picture in the murky waters of Maine much easier.
I also have a strobe in the mail from a lucky Ebay win over the weekend.  With the strobe I feel like I have a camera system that will work very well for the project at hand, and be a door way to new projects in the future.

I have the project up on Kick Starter as well, while I have the camera all set I still have a lot of cost to print and frame photographs as well as keep all the scuba gear up and running.  So please take a look and if you can spare a few dollars it all helps, plus you can get some prints out of it.  Thanks a lot.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740324117/exploring-the-shipwrecks-of-mount-desert-island

Over this year I have been doing research about shipwrecks around Mount Desert Island.  This spring I will start photographing the wreck sites both on land and underwater.  Before I start taking pictures there is still some more research and I need to secure an underwater camera. I am in Boston for two weeks and will be doing more research at the national archives in Boston and getting a underwater camera.