When I went on a hike at Little Cove, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, near Tobermory, I was hoping to capture those awesome greens and blues of the water. It's those colours that remind me of how refreshing and invigorating it is to swim there. I shot these pictures with what seems to be my favourite lens based on usage: the SMCP-A 28mm F2.8.
Snorkelling in the waters of Tobermory is really exhilarating. Cold at first, but you warm up once you get moving. We found gobies in the long cracks of the large yellow rock formations. Jackie's uncle Kevin says snorkelling in the tropics is like colour TV, vs. black-and-white up here. Ha! Okay, he may have a point, but there's lots of subtler colour up here, and it really is an adventure and as Dave put it, a visit to another world. We also snorkelled around the small tugboat wrecks near the harbour in town.
Shot with the SMCA 28mm F2.8 lens on my Pentax K100D DSLR. Someone on the beach asked me how I liked the Pentax. I said, "I'm a big fan", and mentioned the lens I was using, which is compact, built tough, decades old, and does everything except autofocus and zoom. It's turning into my walkaround lens, although I'm sort of pining for autofocus and macro on it (although I've taken some neat macros with it reversed - see my "Macro and Abstract" set on Flickr); enter the DA 35mm Limited Macro to my wishlist. And in some ways, I'm still trying to get to an updated version of the K1000 + M 55mm F1.8 I used when I jumped into SLR photography on a trip to the east coast.
View of the beach from one of the tall rock formations. A popular spot for snorkellers and divers. The flat rocks seem to be preferred seating compared to the beach of white softball-sized stones. We snorkelled without wetsuits - cold until you start moving, but I love routinely diving down 15 feet or so for a closer fly-by of the underwater terrain.
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