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Bajagypsy
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As per usual, your pictures are absouletely amazing.
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AmoPescar
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Hi Ken,
As always...really AMAZING PHOTOS! Your photos always make me want to be a better photographer.
Thanks for taking the time to post them for us to see.
Michael
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fdt
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Thanks Ken
My kids are amazed at the beuty of your pictures.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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Cincodemayo
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Ken....as always your pics bring back all the beauty I remember diving the Channel Islands! Have a great New Year!
Don\'t get mad...
Get EVEN.
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Cincodemayo
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Ken....Have you ever entertained the idea of entering any of your magnificent photos in the Islands Magazine's Photo contest? I really think your
chances of winning are way up there....They have awesome prizes like a fully paid vacation to Vanatu Island that Cousteau's son owns and runs. I'd
certainly go for it if I were you and you can send as many images in as you want. If you win you just have to send me a large T shirt from there
Don\'t get mad...
Get EVEN.
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Ken Bondy
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Thanks thanks thanks MANY thanks to Bajagypsy, AmoPescar, fdt, CincodeMayo. Cinco I really appreciate the encouragement about entering the Islands
Magazine photo contest. I enjoy Islands Mag, but I really don't want to get involved in photo contests any more. When I started taking underwater
photos 25+ years ago I did the contest circuit for awhile, and did pretty well, but it was brutal, particularly attending the judging in person  . Right now my outlets are this forum, where I really enjoy showing my photos and
the feedback from Nomads, and an underwater photography forum where I occasionally post. I don't really need anything else. Now that
"semi-retirement" has kicked in, I am sorting through about 5,000 slides I made over the years, scanning the ones I really like, and showing them
here. I am also (very slowly) working on a book that will weave my diving experiences with topside relationships. The feedback I get from this forum
is invaluable to me, and has already influenced some of the things that will be in the book. Thanks again, ++Ken++
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
The other one I really like a lot is what appears to be a hermit crab. But it really doesn't look like a crab at all. It's very mysterious. A black
void with two eyeballs staring out of it. It just looks so alien and a bit threatening. So I like it because it draws you in in a creepy science
fiction way.
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Jeez, Joe, great minds.....and all that. I have a few images of that hermit crab from that sequence that make it much more clear that it is, in fact,
a hermit crab but I like the one I posted a lot better, for exactly the reasons you stated!!!
++Ken++
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Sharksbaja
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Labor of love
Fer sure Ken. Many don't understand all theeffort that is associated with world-class photos. Thanks and thanx in advance.
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Cincodemayo
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The Book? Count me in Ken and I want it autographed! I want first print too!
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
The other one I really like a lot is what appears to be a hermit crab. But it really doesn't look like a crab at all. It's very mysterious. A black
void with two eyeballs staring out of it. It just looks so alien and a bit threatening. So I like it because it draws you in in a creepy science
fiction way.
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Jeez, Joe, great minds.....and all that. I have a few images of that hermit crab from that sequence that make it much more clear that it is, in fact,
a hermit crab but I like the one I posted a lot better, for exactly the reasons you stated!!!
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Oh I heard you loud and clear on that one, Ken. You were talking and I was listening. Only there was no spoken words. Just an exchange of images. I
understood your choice.
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Marie-Rose
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Wow!!
I admire your talent. Thank you!
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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Ken Bondy
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Joe
Here's another photo of the same hermit crab, this one more scientifically identifiable but IMHO not as interesting as the one I originally posted:
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Bob H
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Wow, it just doesn't get any better than this! Somehow, you seem to outdo yourself, each and every time. The high quality shots from you are just
never ending.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Joe
Here's another photo of the same hermit crab, this one more scientifically identifiable but IMHO not as interesting as the one I originally posted:
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Yes, they're very different. The new one is something they would project on a screen in an undergraduate Natural History of invertebrates class.
Although there is a hint of interpretive material in there. I see a mustachiod yosemite sam in there somewhere. A potential idea maybe.
The first image, though, was all fiction. The arms really add a lot to the fantasy. The brittle stars are unidentifiable so you have these mysterious
eyes in a bed of these twisting furry stems. The wider screen gives you a better sense of the environent and the off green color gives a ghoulish feel
to all of it. The image is a total creation.
Regarding photo contests. Many of your images are very interpretive. I wonder whether the judges at these contests are able or even willing to make
that leap and see what you're saying. In my experience they have different categories and your images have to fit into them. They judge you by how
well your image does in the specific category that it's submitted. The pictures I see in coffee table books on marine life are not interpretive. There
will be an anemone with colorful clown fish which are beautiful for it's own sake but there is nothing beyond that. I am thinking that perhaps that's
the sort of thing these judges are looking for.
The best critique is from someone who understands your vision and critizes it.
BTW have you considered this one? I like it a lot. It works as a pictorial, a nature photograph, and as an interpretive image. A real winner IMO.
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DianaT
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Again, fantastic
I really look forward to your photos---they are so wonderful. You do need to put together a book, no doubt about it.
I know you said you don't do contests anymore, but the first thing I thought about when I saw the picture of your daughter and the seal, was boy that
should be in some contest. Along with what I thought should be the poster fish for "save the ocean", the photo with your daughter is my favorite.
They are not the most colorful, but they just jump out and speak to me.
The colors in your photos are, well, I think I have run out of adjectives, so I will say magnificent and all of its synonyms.
Keep on posting and put that book together.
Diane
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jerry
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thank you ken for taking the effort it sure mellows me
jerry and judi
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