Welcome to my photo gallery

All photos, © Michael A. Briggs

The photos on this page haven't been updated in awhile.  I have started to use an online photography site to showcase my more recent photos.  http://www.pbase.com/photogrif
 

{sitting squirrel 3} After writing to a net friend and finding out they had never seen a real squirrel before, I had to go out and start taking photos of squirrels.  (easier said than done!)  I finally succeeded as you will soon see!

{Divers from below } I had seen a photo of divers on the surface taken from the bottom in a textbook.  I tried the same thing, and after adding some bubbles I think it looked pretty cool!

{big bear} You might remember this picture from my old photo page, it's still a good shot, and didn't want to take it off.
 
 

{Yellow Fins}  This is a friend of mine that I help teach scuba with.  We were out in a quarry waiting for the students to get ready, and I was trying out my underwater camera.
 
 

{Three ducks} I bet you wonder how I come up with the names for these pictures, don't you? :)  I took this picture back in high school (no it wasn't THAT long ago!) It was a Black & White image to begin with and I made it look old.
 

{colorful corals}  I took this down in the Bahamas on one of the trips.  The flash helped bring out the colors and after I got back I was really surprised at how it turned out.
 
 

{peek} This was another one of the many squirrel pictures that I took.  He had run up the tree and was peeking around the trunk to see what I was doing.  I just sat and waited for him to get curious enough to look again, and took the picture.

{Donnie Iris}  You might remember this from my old site or from the "parallel time" web site.  I took this of Donnie at a rib cook-off in Ohio.  Halfway through the show I decided to try and use the ambient lighting, and got some REALLY neat shots!
 
 

{daddy ray}  This was taken again in the Bahamas.  There were 4 of them swimming around and this was the largest.  It got to the point that I couldn't help but take their pictures, because they were getting so close.

{lioness}  I took this the same visit to the zoo as the bears.  It was early in the morning and both the lions were laying out in the sun.
 
 

{underwater plane} This was the most surprising photo that I got back.  You see underwater the colors fade as you go deeper, but any flash or flashlight will bring the colors back to life.  I didn't see all these pretty colors when I took the photo, but they sure showed up well on the film.  This was an old plane on the bottom,  to give us divers something to look at.

{polar bear}  This is one of my "old" pictures from the old site as well.  It's wasn't a bad day when I took these and he was all stretched out on the rocks, probably getting cool.

{student and shark}  Another Bahamas picture.  We went on a second shark dive this trip and because of the small group of divers with us, the sharks came in for a close look.  The couple students were really wanting to see them, and I wanted to get a photo of a diver and shark.  I later quit paying attention to the sharks and looked for their teeth in the sand.  Found 3 on this dive!

{tree pose}

This is the last one... he ran up the tree and figured I wasn't a threat anymore.  Just sat up there eating his acorn.  I was able to get up under the tree and get a nice shot of him, without scarring him.

To see more of my photos, I have a page that I set up of a recent scuba trip, it has a narrative, but also MANY photos, both topside and underwater. Bonaire

More recent photos from my Digital camera can be found at:

http://www.pbase.com/photogrif

12/07/01