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photos.ALBj.net → 2009 → Another Plunge, Seven Years Later, August 15, 2009

Summer 2002, my friend Luis and Marisol were engaged. Since they love silly pictures of themselves, one day I took portraits of them underwater with a cheap, ratty little disposable camera for something fun to add to their photo table during the reception. Now armed with a digital camera that's waterproof, we decided to take more that were bound to turn out much better quality. Calling these photos and videos hilarious would be a gross understatement. (Giving notice, this album is pretty much unedited because some of the outtakes are among the funniest of the batch.)

Stealing a selfie
Before we got started, Marisol was examining my camera, anticipating how much better it would do than the old disposables of years ago, and snuck a couple selfies.

Getting acclimated
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Getting acclimated
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Getting acclimated
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Luis' tie tries to steal the show
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This is why I don't delete shots on the camera—thought this was an outtake but I love it
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One of my favorites
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Another of my favorites
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Fooling around with macro mode
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Fooling around with macro mode
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Swimming toward the camera
Tried a sequence swimming toward the camera, but forgot to turn off macro mode from previous two shots. If you've never tried opening your eyes underwater, here's a pretty good idea what it looks like.

Swimming toward the camera
Works better with macro mode turned off.

Outtakes included
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Outtakes included
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Would have been an outtake, but awesome hair
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Video version of the earlier shots, just swimming toward the camera
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Part 1 of Luis swimming around holding the camera taking video of himself
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Part 2 of Luis swimming around holding the camera taking video of himself
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Part 1 of Marisol swimming around holding the camera taking video of herself
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Part 2 of Marisol swimming around holding the camera taking video of herself
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Part 3 of Marisol swimming around holding the camera taking video of herself
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Swim toward each other and kiss, take 1
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Swim toward each other and kiss, take 2
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Swim toward each other and kiss, take 3
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Swim toward each other and kiss, take 4
I think they just wanted to keep kissing, but this last one turned out adorable.

Attempt 1 at some assisted flips
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Attempt 2 at some assisted flips
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Numerous attempts at a simple two-shot
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Numerous attempts at a simple two-shot
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One of my favorites
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Numerous attempts at a simple two-shot
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Another favorite
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Numerous attempts at a simple two-shot
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Mr. G.Q.
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Mr. G.Q.
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Stealing his spotlight
LOL going for a zen shot with Luis and I saw Marisol preparing to swim past and be a camera hog. Naturally, I obliged and waited till she got in front of him!

G.Q. zen
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G.Q. zen
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One of my favorites
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Gorgeous
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Nearly certain this is my favorite of the whole set
Very adorable. I half believe Marisol could live underwater.

While doing the previous shots of Marisol, Luis was just hanging out like this—not sure why 🙂
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Workin' the solo act
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I knew it wouldn't be long before lunacy would start to kick in!
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I knew it wouldn't be long before lunacy would start to kick in!
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I knew it wouldn't be long before lunacy would start to kick in!
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No explanation
I've got no explanation for much of this one. Silliness. No idea what Marisol was trying to convey toward the end.

Completely accidental shutter trip, yet somehow, I still like it
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Even more oddball antics caught on video
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Drowned zombies
Luis started this one out saying something like, "be a zombie." Yeah, that didn't last long.

Surprisingly cute, considering it was taken mere moments after the looniness in the previous video!
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Well, it was a good one till Luis was needing to breathe
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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Continued attempts at a simple two-shot
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One of my favorites
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The camera focused somewhere slightly off from Luis and Marisol, but I still like this a lot
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So they don't *always* live underwater
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Didn't aim properly, but the ripple patterns are cool
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Some attempts at shooting up through the water with Luis and Marisol looking down
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Some attempts at shooting up through the water with Luis and Marisol looking down
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Some attempts at shooting up through the water with Luis and Marisol looking down
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Some attempts at shooting up through the water with Luis and Marisol looking down
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Finally, the shot I was after—the two of them looking down through ripples
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Just like fish, they couldn't stay out from under the water
After the prior few shots, it was "stick your face in the water." Weird—Marisol's got this uncanny ability of keeping her eyes open while passing the water's surface. I think here, she's got something like an eye and a half in the water.