Very nice! Loved the iguana shot... makes me miss mine.

There were tons of iguanas and geckos at our hotel. Every afternoon we'd have about 10 iguanas between 2-6' long hanging out around the beach and the pool. Someday my wife and I will probably get an iguana as a pet, but we've got to stop moving around the country first.

Great lighthouse photo, perfectly composed. The barracuda is neat and the iguana is awesome.

They're great pets KWS. My family had one back in the early 90s, named Cactus Jack. He was the best pet ever We even had a leash to walk him outside, but when the icestorm hit in '93 it knocked out the power for several days and the cold was too much for the little guy. My dad did everything he could to keep him warm, including wrapping him in a blanket and holding him like a baby bundled up.

A great birthday trip. I love the lighthouse. Great fish shots. Glad to see your photos again. :o)

Wonderful. I am impressed. Didn't remember that you could take pics. Good job. Now I will check out the rest.

The lighthouse and the eel are my picks in this fine set. If you get lucky, you'll get one more vote and hit the "big time".

Aruba is such an easy place to find inspiration. It's such a pretty, friendly island with such an amazing contrast of Caribbean charm and desert landscapes. Nice to just relax in such a fun place, it was easy enough take pictures of it. The underwater shots were a bit more challenging, the sealife was great but it was spawning season on the reefs and the water was literally swimming with eggs and baby fish. Once I viewed most of those shots at full resolution, the were tossed. You can see just how busy the water was in some of the other shots. Most of those, if they're not deleted immediately, rarely make it off my hard drive and the few that I never want to post anywhere but my own site.

I was actually planning on doing a challenge post with this. Those last 3 shots were in 25'-50' of water, so not exactly shallow. Even on the shallower photos though, anything more than 5' will be very blue (water, of course, absorbs red light first so you get primarily blues and greens). There's a photoshop action on Adobe's website that Tom2002 here clued me in on that's a must for anyone doing underwater photography. Very simple, you load your image, run the action and poof, the image looks just like it did underwater by adding the red back in. I'm far too ignorant in photoshop to pretend to understand the steps in adjusting the colors myself, but I've been quite happy with the action. Maybe tonight I'll post a few before and after shots.

Not bad shooting for a crusty old snob. And happy birthday.

My birthday is next month...LOL Fabulous shots! I especially enjoyed the long range shots on your website.