Mark Atwell's photostream  

I started photography underwater, then transitioned on to land - though the latter is definitely not my forte! :o(

This is me in November 2007 photographing a Oceanic White Tip Shark at 'The Brothers' in the Red Sea:



This is my (current) underwater rig:



This is where I've been - I should visit some bigger countries to make it look more impressive - many are little more than a pixel on this map! Can you spot them?:


create your own visited countries map

Favourites:

Locations:

Reefs:
Layang Layang & Sipadan, Malaysian Borneo (Sabah)
Dive Site: Roma, Wakatobi,, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Richelieu Rock, Thailand

Muck:
Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Purijati & Secret Bay, Bali, Indonesia

Night:
Bequia (muck), St Vincent, Caribbean

Wrecks (all Red Sea)
Carnatic, Kingston and the Thistlegorm

Wildlife
Fish
Rock-Mover Wrasse (and the juveniles in particular)
Goatfish (hardly rare, but they remind me of the 'Evil' Goat-Dance in Dragnet! :o)
Mandarinfish

Crustaceans
Pink Squat / Fairy Lobster
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Coleman Shrimps
Harlequin Shrimps
Boxer Crabs (I've only seen one)
Box Crabs

Nudibranchs and Pleurobranchs
Chromodoris kuniei
Berthella martensi (I've only seen one)
Melibe viridis (ugly, and I've only seen one)
Really *want* to see Halgerda tesselata

Equipment
Nikon D300 and D200
Subal ND20 Underwater Housing for my D200, but modified to take my D300 instead.
Fantasea SB800 Underwater Housings
SB800 flashes
Flat-ports & extension rings for the 60mm, 105mm and
60mm with teleconverter.
FE8 8" dome-port.

Nikon 18-200mm orginal (now with broken VR) and the now updated one
Nikon 18-70(?)mm
Nikon 60mm AF-D macro
Nikon 105mm macro (the older 'Classic' one)
Nikon 70-180mm macro
Nikone 80-200mm f/2.8
Tokina 12-24mm
Tokina 10-17mm fish-eye
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
Nikon 35mm f/1.8

Kenko 300 Pro 2x Teleconverter

Favourite films... where *do* I start?

Here's a few for now (in no particular order):

2001 A Space Odyssey... where does one start?
Them!
The Thing From Another World (I also like the re-make, but this is more visceral)
Dance of the Vampires - Roman Polanski
Love and Death - Woody Allen
Omen
It Happened One Night - the 'domestic argument' scene in particular.
Gattaca
Some Like It Hot!
Monsters Inc. - awesome, but particularly love the retro opening titles.
Up!
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Hard Boiled
Seven Samurai
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
Madagascar 2 - I like to move it! move it! And King Julian for errr... king! :o)
Trading Places (lurve the opening with Marriage of Figaro)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Time Bandits
The Italian Job (the 60's original)
Get Carter (the original)
Alien
Aliens
The Third Man
Shawshank Redemption
O Brother, Where art thou?
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey - Twister with Death - inspired!
Spiderman 1 & 2
Batman Begins
Robocop
Highlander
Transformers - amazing special effects - could have easily been 'cheap'

Favourite Movie Scenes (I don't necessarily think that the overall film was great):

The underwater march in Pirates of the Caribbean
1492: Conquest of Paradise - The silhouetted ships to Vangelis.
The Intelligence Men - Morecambe and Wise - Trying to remember the music to Swan Lake in the bar.
Knight's Tale - to Queen ' We WIll Rock You'!

Favourite comedians:

Emo Philips - I *am* an Emophiliac!
Spike Milligan - the godfather of Modern British Comedy (despite being technically Irish) - "Let's get out of the woods, before the trees arrive!" - Pure Class!
Peter Cook - not seen as much of his work, as I would like, but everything I've seen/heard so far has been awesome!
Lee Evans
Eddie Izzard
Billy Connolly
Laurel and Hardy
The Chuckle Brothers [sic] - they *are* the modern Laurel and Hardy
Simon Pegg / Spaced!