Roy Fischler's photos - page 1

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1962 - 1990

numerous trips to northeastern US and eastern Canada with my family in 1960s and early 1970's (including 2nd total solar eclipse July 1972)
(I didn't take the pictures - just listing all trips I've been on for completeness, for my own sake)


trips to Florida in March, 1970 (including 1st total solar eclipse) and March - April 1975
(I didn't take the pictures)


trip cross-country with my brother in July - August, 1979
(all photos from this trip seem to have been lost, including the best ones of the Arch in St. Louis, the Grand Canyon and the Colorodo Rockies)


scuba diving, late 1980s to present

Key Largo, April 1986:


staghorn coral, with a school of yellowtail snapper, on my 1st dive after I got certified, off of Key Largo


Ft. Lauderdale, numerous trips throughout the late 1980s and 1990s till I moved here:


this is the only underwater shot I'm really proud of, of gray angelfish off of Ft. Lauderdale


a French angelfish, Ft. Lauderdale (should we call them "freedom angelfish" now?)


a school of barracuda, back-lit by the sun, Ft. Lauderdale


a moray eel peeking out of its hole, Ft. Lauderdale


a stingray, Ft. Lauderdale


a black angelfish, Ft. Lauderdale


a moray eel swimming outside of its hole, which is unusual, Ft. Lauderdale


a pipefish trying to camoflage itself among coral, Ft. Lauderdale


butterfly fish, Ft. Lauderdale


run for your lives! a shark! Ft. Lauderdale


fan coral, Ft. Lauderdale


just when you thought you've seen everything, it's me diving, on a motorcycle, combining 2 favorite activities in one, Ft. Lauderdale


the motorcycle above - I couldn't find out the story of why someone sunk it on a wreck off of Ft. Lauderdale


part of the wreck of the Mercedes II, Ft. Lauderdale


a fan coral and a school of yellowtail snapper, Ft. Lauderdale


Barbados, January 1988:


me, Barbados (obviously I didn't take the picture, but I'm including it anyway)


St. Lucia, January 1989:


looking through a lace-like curtain of coral, St. Lucia


a crab hiding in a barrel sponge, St. Lucia


anyone need a heart transplant? a brain coral with sponge above it, St. Lucia


a brittle starfish's legs sticking out of a sponge, St. Lucia


a sponge with a brittle starfish inside, St. Lucia


a bouquet of 2 types of sponges, St. Lucia


Cayman Islands, February 1989:


a dramatic shot, Cayman Islands


staghorn coral, Cayman Islands


Hawaii, February 1990:


an octapus, Hawaii


an unhappy lobster, Hawaii


a crown of thorns starfish, a terrible destroyer of coral, Hawaii


Aruba, February 1992:


a solid wall of fish, my camera flash lighting only part of it, Aruba


a weekend in the Keys, April 2008:


me coming up the boat ladder at the end of a dive -- my friend took this picture and the next


me farther up the boat ladder


California, March - April 1984


the mission at San Luis Obispo


the Monterrey coast


the famous cypress tree on the rock at Monterrey


Yosemite


Mirror Lake in Yosemite


Yosemite in the snow


Florida, March - April 1986


Epcot


an alligator on the lawn at Cypress Gardens, back when that was something exotic for me


Cancun Club Med, January 1987


the pyramid at Chichen Itza, my friend walking in front of it


the pyramid at Chichen Itza


Washington, D.C., April 1987


the Washington Monument (duh)


New York area, late 1980s


a weekend in Fire Island, NY (off of Long Island), August 1987


I call this photo "Strangled Sky".


This and the one above were from a day we went around Manhattan taking photos of the architecture.


the Brooklyn Bridge (duh)


Barbados, January 1988


down the beach


looking out a cave we visited


California, March - April 1988


flamingos at the San Diego Zoo


L.A. at night, from Griffith Park


Cinderella's Castle at Disneyland


the town on Catalina Island


Pacific Coast Highway south of Monterrey


Pacific Coast Highway south of Monterrey


Pacific Coast Highway south of Monterrey


Pebble Beach at Monterrey


the Oakland Bay Bridge from San Francisco


the skyline of San Francisco


a cable car in San Francisco


Jamaica Hedonism 2, September 1988 (no pictures from this trip worth showing)


St. Lucia Club Med, January 1989


the Pitons, remnants of a volcano


Cayman Islands, February 1989


a shipwreck just offshore


a Carribean sunset


numerous trips to Florida after my parents moved here and before I did, most of 1990s (no pictures worth showing)


Hawaii, February 1990


Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head


the view of Waikiki from Diamond Head


the edge of Kilauea Crater, Hawaii


the view out our hotel room, Maui


the volcanic crater at the top of Mount Haleakala, Maui


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