While photographing a local fish store here in Central Florida for their website I took it upon myself to get up close and personal with some of the clams in their display tank. The tank was a shallow breeding tank that had superb lighting necessary to grow these clams. The result was a neat over-under shot that makes you feel like you are just about to enter their world.

This weekend I am participating in the Orlando PurpleStride 5k event at Blanchard Park in Orlando, FL. Not only will I be running to raise research funds for Pancreatic Cancer for PanCan, but I have also created a custom painting for the event’s raffle. Stop by to see it in person at 8am and stick around for the race and other prizes.

I am really enjoying working with Adobe Lightroom. The small amount of editing tools compared to Photoshop are just right when it comes to streamlining your digital photography work flow. For example, I was able to modify several ‘throw away’ pictures I had in my archives and create something a little more artistic. These images were not framed properly, under or over exposed, had large amounts of back scatter or just simply didn’t stand out. After tinkering with them I came up with a fish portrait set.

Over the past week I made time to edit some of my underwater photos. With the limited visibility and my suborn attitude (I wanted to shoot all wide-angle with my new lens) the photos were less than stellar right off of the memory card. Using Adobe Lightroom, I was able to rescue a number of images. Check them out below.