September 14, 2011 Neptune Memorial Reef
 

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Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

via National Geographic

Gorgeous. That would be a cool dive spot.

Sigh. I love the ocean.

I thought it looked really small (only half a metre high) until I noticed the diver, then I had a moment of dizzyness as my brain adjusted to the correct scale.

Cool place.

At first, I thought it was an image of an aquarium.

I would not want swim around dead people.

Death + scuba diving. Not a good mix.

I love the ocean AND I love dead people.

I'm so there. ;)

The photo looks fake. Lights are weird. Why so many fishes in front of the camera and none further on?
Light on the diver looks weird.
Visibility strangely rendered.
...

for me it's a photoshop.

This does not mean the picture is not nice, it is definitely appealing to me as a final stand...

Fish school. The school happened to be closer to the camera?

As to the lights, it's in the ocean. Water does funny things to lights.

What say our professional photographers?

As one with advanced open water scuba certification, I think it looks pretty normal.

Looks normal to me too, and there are fish in the distance, but it's a bit darker there, so they blend in.

I sea dead people.

I personally know the photographer. He used to live in my house and work at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Until his interest in photography got noticed. He quit the Aquarium and went on to do photography full time.

I don't think that with his talent he would need to photoshop an image to get it noticed.

I wonder if the dead people sea us?

Nice and all that.
But just stick me in a hole in the ground.
No coffin, no wrapping, no furore.

I believe I am a creature of Earth, and to earth I should return.
And not accelerate any else's demise by using up resources.

I'd like to be thrown into the ocean, whole, and let the sharks eat me. Give back to the part of the earth I've had an affinity for my whole life.

In lieu of that, a hole in the ground would be nice...like you said no coffin or anything.

Both these things are frowned upon.

How about just thrown into the bushes?