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Central CT here, too. Great shot!

Thank you. I use a Nikon D750 (5 yrs old) + Sigma contemporary 150-600 mm (cheapest super-telephoto that I could buy)

Good lord. That ---- is ---- stunning. Everything about that photo is beautiful.

Why take any risk at all? With the amount of money that they had they could have hired an entire crew of an actual submarine for a day or two.

I can't tell you what their motivations were, but I think there were 2 types of people doing this.

• Type 1: the "captain" and many/most of the passengers were adrenaline junkies who wanted to push the limits of what could be done. Kind of like the first people to travel to the north and south poles. They are "adventurers" and they understood that they were taking considerable risks with their lives.

• Type 2: people who were trying to purchase a great "cocktail party story" with their $$$. The same way that wealthy people today pay $$ to have sherpas lug their stuff up and down Mt Everest so they can take a selfie. The ability to drop a quarter-of-a-million $$ on this stunt already excludes most of the world's population from even trying it. Then they can brag at their cocktail parties and make the Mt. Everest climbers look like wimps by comparison. I suspect (not sure) that the Pakistani business man falls into this category. The fact that he took his 19 year old son makes me think he completely discounted the risk and was just doing it for personal vanity.

I'm speculating on all of this and I don't mean to cast aspersions on the Pakistani guy and his son. For all I know, my analysis could be all wrong.

Beautiful!!

And I didn't realize you could submit multiple photos at once.

I'm Italian American and there is a liquor bottle that is commonly displayed in a lot of Italian-American households--

After all these years and now I see that I was actually looking at a California Quail!

But I like your spider!

Mine aren't very good. :-(

TY!

Thanks. I got lucky on this one.

TYVM

Funny! I got my 111th today (Acadian flycatcher)--heard, seen, and photographed (extremely blurry).

I've been doing this for a few years, so I probably suck at it. I figure most people with even a touch of skill would be at double my number. But it's still more fun than a sack of ocelots.

edit: to be clear, I have a driver's license, car, and I do this a fair amount, so you're WAYYYY ahead of me! LOL