Michael Harris Photography

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of  understanding and misunderstanding. Diane Arbus Beautiful Canadian couple, very much in love and finding a wonderful way to celebrate their 10th anniversary.

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself. Nicole Polizzi   "Who Am I" by me and its a finalist in the  Digital Photo Pro's 6th Annual Emerging Pro Photo Contest

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. Edwin Louis Cole This image taken underwater with two standard black backdrops in the water as well can together unexpectedly.  One flower separated and helped the composition.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by;  but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James M. Barrie

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.  Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,  the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. Audrey Hepburn

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Hans Hofmann    

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden

Photgraphed the above lionfish while snorkeling in Bottom Harbour, N Eleuthera. There are several small patch reefs between Bottom Harbour Club and Cistern Cay a few hundred feet from shore. Everyone, no matter how small had at least 1 lionfish and several single rock reefs had 3 of them. We saw in total 12 to 15 size varied from very small 3inch to about 8 inch. What's The Problem? (copied from the Reef website ) For a quick one-page fact sheet put together by REEF, USGS, NOAA, and Simon Fraser University on invasive lionfish, click here . Lionfish are:• Voracious predators being shown to eat native fish and crustaceans in large quantities. (Juvenile Nassau grouper have been found in lionfish stomachs in the Bahamas)• Not known to have any native predators• Equipped with venomous dorsal, ventral and anal spines, which deter predators and can cause painful wounds in humans.• Capable of reproducing year-round with unique reproduction mechanisms no...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.    Margaret Fuller

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? - Oscar Hammerstein, II  

Canon 40D, 10-22mm at 20mm, iso100, 1/800 sec at f/4.5, + ewa-marine wp bag Learn to listen to your intuition it comes from close to the soul, trust the small voice inside you it will tell you exactly which way to go...

Canon 40D, 10-22mm at 10mm, iso100, 1/200 sec at f/9.0, + ewa-marine wp bag We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend and a few good places to photography. Robert Louis Stevenson (modified)

Canon 40D, 10-22mm at 15mm, 1/250sec at f/13, iso400 in a EWA-Marine waterproof bag. Finally got the nerve to put the Canon 40D in the waterproof bag and head underwater. The bag was not specifically made for this camera, it was one I originally bought for a video camera that was purchased several years ago. The Canon fit relatively well and the shutter button was pressable so off I went to a small shallow reef near home base in North Eleuthera, Bahamas. This was going to be strictly a test and to make sure the equipment would survive and to see how it performed. The camera was set to "P" mode with iso on auto, nothing was adjustable underwater due to the bag. I used Program Mode instead of Auto to prevent the flash from trying to pop up as the bag would prohibit that from happening and cause an error. I picked this site because it is shallow (5 -10 ft) perfect for snorkelling, sandy 3ft area to anchor the Hobie, close by and I had seen it before. Once in the water the o...