My head has just been totally out of the game for the past couple of months. I've been regularly disappointed with the photos I've been producing lately; seems to be I just keep shooting the same photos just different day... I took a few weeks off from even picking up a camera and I picked up a film SLR yesterday. It forces me to be more aware of how I am shooting and just makes me be much more focused when I go back to the digital. I just feel like the longer I go without shooting film, the longer I go without a solid shot from the digital. Not that anyone reading this gives a shit.
About 2/3 of the school was circling around Ryan, while the rest of them were cruising over, behind and under me. You also have to realize I only caught the tail end of the circling on video. A lot of the Ulua had already stopped circling and were cruising out into the blue before I had started filming. I would say there was somewhere around 400+ Ulua altogether, most of them being around 30-50 lbs but a good number of large ones being close to 100 lbs. It was pretty amazing to catch a glimpse of 3 of them out of the corner of my eye and then by the time I looked up, several hundred of them buzzing past me at mock 10 speed and being able to feel the water rushing by me. Talk about a serious pack of wolves out for some blood; I'm pretty sure every fish on the reef was shaking in there shoes. I know I was.