So the plan was to take a year off running AquaExposure to go somewhere to shoot every day.  I was looking at several places in Indonesia, Philippines, PNG, and all the other Indo-Pacific hotspots.  Was just going to live on the cheap, grab a rental place with shore diving, maybe buy a little outboard boat, befriend a local dive shop; something like that.  Or nothing like that . . . but either way, I’ve landed myself in Papua New Guinea for the next year.  So here I am, about as far away from civilization as you can get on this Earth, diving several times a day in the an underwater photographer’s paradise!   I’m surrounded by active volcanoes, malaria, treacherous hull-ripping reefs, cannibals (naw, not in the past few decades, and I’m too skinny anyway), and the bane of my existence - the saber-tooth blenny, but its all the trade-off for reefs beyond imagine, critters so weird and rare that they’ve never been classified, and basically, the best diving and photography in the world.  During the months of Jan/Feb 2010, I won’t be diving much, but after Mar 2010, I’ll be exploring the south coast of New Britain Island, where its pretty much completely virgin diving in one of the last few uncharted regions on Earth.  Do I have more?  Thousands.  This is just a quick selection of some of my favorites from Sept-Dec 2009.  Can’t wait to show you more!  Can’t wait to shoot more!!!                                   I’m just getting started out here . . . . .