Underwater Photo Gallery, St. John, US Virgin Islands

All of the underwater pictures in this photo gallery were taken with a digital camera in an under water case in the Virgin Islands. Some were taken with only snorkel, mask, and fins, wading in from a St. John beach. Others were taken while diving in both the USVI and BVI. Many of them hang on the walls in our vacation rental, Coral and Blue.

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The gallery has been divided into snorkeling and diving pages. These pages will open in a new window.

Snorkeling Photos Page		Diving Photos Page

If you are interested in obtaining prints, email don@stjohnvi.net. They are digital and are available 8X10, matted for an 11X14 frame and 12x16 matted for a 16x20 frame. The print files are much larger than what are shown here and the prints are made using an Epson 8 ink archival system.

If you'd rather see the contents of the pictures personally, we have a lovely accommodation and will show you on a map of St. John the locations the photos were taken.

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Don, the photographer, has had a camera since college. He started into digital over 10 years ago with a Canon A40. Before going on vacation from Connecticut to St. John, he discovered that Canon made an underwater case for it. That was the start of his underwater photography while snorkeling. A day was spent with a real estate agent during his third vacation to St. John and a condo was purchased. Hence, a common story here, "I came here on vacation for two weeks six years ago." Once he got here, the local power company needed some underwater inspection done and insisted on high resolution digital photography. It was a wonderful opportunity to get dive certified. That's how it all got started.

Don's equipment progression:
   Canon A40 - 2 mega-pixels with a Canon case
   Canon S500 - 5 mega-pixels with a Canon case
   Canon S80 - 8 mega-pixels with a Canon case and a Sunpak flash. An Ikelite case and dual Ikelite flashes were added.
   Canon G9 - 12 mega-pixels with an Ikelite case and dual Ikelite flashes. It is used for macro and general underwater photography.
   Canon 5D - 12.8 mega-pixels with an Ikelite case and dual Ikelite flashes. It is used for wide angle, macro, and general underwater photography.
   Epson R2400 printer - 8 inks and archival quality. It has a 13 inch carriage and is capable of 13x19 inch prints.

Don claims that he's not moving back to Connecticut.