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[JKrumsick]

When your wife suggests an evening investigating the best use of a lubricant and you promptly head to the camera room and work on lubricating O-rings all evening.

That's taking it too far!! I think exploring the best use of lubricant with your wife will probably bring inspiration to your photographs... So please... explore the lubes with your wife and not your housing :-).

[Steve Douglas]

KY on o-rings....hmmm never thought of that.
steve

[Marjo]

You know you are an uw photo nerd geek when your husband puts in a special request 6 months in advance of arrival of house-guests for special permission to clear dining-room table of uw camera gear for a [gasp!] dinner!

Edited by Marjo, 31 May 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[John Bantin]

The D800. Did we really need so many Mp?

[r4e]

you dive with 2-3 cameras and 2 hand held lamps.

[JackConnick]

You buy gear. You buy more gear and sell some. You buy and sell again repeatedly. You write about it all on a blog.

Then you open an internet store and sell a few things online. Then you sell more.
Then more and open another store online that's bigger. And bigger yet.

Then you open a retail store and quit your day job.
You look around and you have shelves and shelves of stuff that you now buy by the case.

Holy crap what happened? ;-)
Jack

Edited by JackConnick, 16 June 2012 - 01:53 PM.

[Marjo]

...when you hand every single bit of money you ever get to your "dealer"...

[eyu]

You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files.

[ce4jesus]

When the thought of seeing fish butts gets you excited. When you understand the meaning of muddy blues

[fforbes]

"You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files."

OMG, Eyu, that's me!

Oh wait, I'm a little better than that, I waited a week before ordering... then ordered the new MacBook Pro a day later.

[John Bantin]

You know you are a UW photo nerd junkie when you pre-order a D800 after reading a review and pre-order a Subal housing on the same day assuming that Subal will make one. Then after receiving the D800 you figure you need a new MacBook Pro to handle the 40 mb raw files.

What are you trying to do to us? "sob"

[John Bantin]

What are you trying to do to us? "sob"

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[tdpriest]

Ho, ho, ho...

... and Santa will have to be extremely generous this year....

[Walt Stearns]

Here’s another take on you know you are a underwater photographer when you try to make a profession out of it.

An Underwater Photographer as seen by…

My self: An artist on the verge of greatness.
Mom: Unemployed.
Dad: I put him through college for this?

Myself: a bigger than life photographer with a truly artistic eye that knows how to capture the true essence of the subject.
The magazine’s Art Director: another imbecile who manages to make images shot with a $10,000 camera system look like they were shot with $150 point and shoot with a thumb smear on the lens.

Myself: a true master and commander with the right insight to steer a publication on a productive course.
The publisher: another imbecile sure to be unaccountable if he were allowed to the Magazine’s Photo Director.

Myself: a role model to all aspiring underwater photographers.
My Colleagues: another photographer who hasn’t learned how to properly use Photoshop.

Myself: a skilled professional whose work requires travel to exotic places, as well as spend inordinate sum of money on dive and photo equipment purchases – all of which deductible on schedule C of my tax return.
My neighbor: a guy running a disability scam.
My high-school reunion classmates: A guy living off a trust fund or married into money.

Myself: a creative artist who’s tangible assets on the verge of fame and fortune.
My accountant: one step away from filling bankruptcy, an audit by the IRS and going to jail for tax evasion.

Myself: a man living his dream, adventurously living by my wits.
The wife: At least I am the one with a real job that pays the bills.

[allan]

This is/was the best series yet!

Especially the 'myself, neigbor, wife' etc.

I often ask myself, "why do i do this?" Does anyone really care?

Well, I guess i and you folks do.

Allan

[fforbes]

I heard an old quote from Picasso today... " The critics get together and talk about aesthetics. The artists get together and talk about turpentine."

I thought that was hilarious! and pretty nerdy too!

Fletcher

[saudio]

When your spare SOLA 800 modeling light makes it into your carry on luggage, but your insulin kit gets checked.

[Ricardo V.]

When only dive destinations with u/w photo op's are considered when planning family vacations.

[cjs_777]

...when the highlight of your entire weekend, was finding and shooting a 'new' 1/2inch Nudibranch!