About us Hi my name is Steve Blume, I grew up in Melbourne and started diving around Port Phillip Bay after being certified in Port Macquarie on Holidays. I loved the adventure and the friendships, but discovering things was my passion. I would dive every moment and I kept trying to find new dive sites, artifacts and different experiences. I moved to Sydney and continued my hobby while joining the dive industry, this has allowed me to discover the South Pacific and many other oceans, seas, harbours, bays, ponds, and rivers. My photography methods are all self taught using trial and error to find my way. I have found that using compact cameras brings me all the pleasure and versatility I am looking for in a Compact Ocean.  On this website you will find some of my favourite dive and land adventures including stories from some of these cool places. While not much is up yet I am loading stuff on most days. If you have any questions about my images or would like to find out how they look on canvas please just drop me a email. I hope you’ll enjoy my images. I am updating them all the time so do come again soon. Thank you Steve  Steve Blume Create Your Badge

About my Cameras It's a funny thing these days, the digital world has made us all a little sceptical. Oh you did that in Photoshop right? Well not always. My aim is to try and create an image natural as possible using the my tools while underwater. What I do hear is jaws dropping when I tell other divers that my underwater images have all been take using a compact camera system. That's right a compact. Why you may ask, well it's simple, I can honistly say I have take a shot of a nudibranch and a whale on the same dive. You can't do that with a DSLR! Look everyone knowns a DSLR's are better, but as a beginner it never made sense, well it's now been many years of enjoying my compacts listed below, but the time finally came and I am now a DSLR wanker! Sorry. First some his  Canon A1 My First camera for diving was actually a Canon A1, released in 1978 and now regarded as a modern classic. I bought the system in 2000 it included a stainless steel and acrylic housing I named the bisciut tin. It really did look like mum cookie tin. I remember my first and only competition using slide film, the developer killed the flim,so I received no points and came last. The great news was last prizes was much better than 4th. I traded my camera for my first laptop and I have been try to get it back ever since.   Sony P10 My first DSC (Digital Still Camera) or Compact was the Sony P10, this 5.0mp was at the time was amazing. It had been a big release by Sony in early 2003 and as part of my job was to sell the camera and housing systems to the diving retailers. While working for Tabata Australia as the Product Manager it was am occupational hazard to play with all the new toys. Sony back then actually had the 80 percent of the Australian diving market to themselves with little yellow and acrylic housing appearing on most dive boats. Never before had underwater photography been so accessible for the normal diver. Sony P100 The P100 was a big set forwad for Sony, they released a range not only with colour but with heaps of features. The main one which took my photography to a new level was Manual Mode. It meant I could adapt a strobe and not have it over power the shot, I could control Shutter speed to 1/1000 and F stop 2.8 or 5.6. It a compact that was amazing. It also meant I could run twin strobes which I used for the first time in the US diving Catalona Island off LA.  Sony P150 Coming Soon... Sony W200   Sea N Sea DX-1G Coming Soon... Sea N Sea DX-2G Coming Soon... Sony A100 Coming Soon... Sony A700  Coming Soon... Canon 7D Coming Soon... Nauticam NA-7D Housing Coming Soon...