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We decided to dedicate a section of this blog to showcase our travels and adventures.  We have been lucky enough to see some amazing places and be assured we carry a camera with us just about everywhere we go!

Friends + Family at Lake Martin summer 2010 for Matt and Sol + Vincent
08.25.2010 in Adventures, Main | by Sol Tamargo

Being married with an american comes with the advantage of having a second home :) Matt and I love traveling and enjoying new places, but for this summer and after our super busy season from January - July we needed a break to relax, and there's no better place than home!.. specially when it's in such a gorgeous place.

Lake Martin is a 44,000 acres man made lake that sits on the foot hills of the apalache mountains, is a pretty quiet place most of the time and we love it!

Matt's parents live here so it's the perfect place to enjoy them too.

We have been here almost all Augost, with the exception of last weekend when we traveled to Beauford South Carolina to cover a wedding.

Here are a few images of our lake paradise:

Matt's photo. Meet Tito, this is our older cat, he is joining us from Mexico to enjoy the holiday! He loves taking long naps during the night, then have a party running laps every night.

Matt's photo. This is Enana., she is the cuttest cat ever! except at 3 am when she comes to the bedroom to wake us up to play with her. :) (Matt looooooves her)

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Sol's photo. It's hard to belive that this gorgeous kitty was found homeless in the street as a tinny baby.

This is sunset from our terrace:

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Matt's photo. Moon rise :)

Sol's photo. Hola Guero!!

Sol's photo. Vincent joined us for 10 super fun days!

Sol's photo.Captain Vincent

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Sol's photo. 3 of my most favorite men :) Phil (Matt's dad) Vincent, and of course my guero

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Sol's photo. Matt and Vincent enjoying sunstet at Matt's parents home

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Matt's photo. Del Sol chillin!

Sol's photo. Vincent dancing to the sunset

Matt's photo. This night was a meteoroshower magic night!

Matt's photo. If you look close, you'll see a shooting star going across the sky on the left side of the frame. right above the trees :)


Sol's iphone photo. No matter the camera, a pretty place makes for awesome photos with the right light.

Iphone photo. It's a blurry photo, but I like it!

Iphone photo :) .

We are getting ready to go back to our primary paradise in Playa del Carmen next week., in the mean time we are doing what we are suppoused to do:

ENJOYING LIFE AT THE MOST!! EVERY DAY!!

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Beach Fun- new gear aquasitions - water fun
05.20.2010 in Adventures, For photographers, Main, For Photographers | by Matt Adcock

Recently, the del Sol shooting crew (Vincent, Sol and I) were at Al Cielo Hotel, for an afternoon swim, lunch, and a yummy glass of white wine. We had our new 14mm L series lens with us in our underwater housing. This was fun and a test for the lens. The lighting was perfect and we got a few fun shots. This lens is honestly a crazy $$$ piece of metal and glass. Check out the statistics on the lens here.

We always are trying to explore our equipment technology to try and push the envelope with our imagery. Hopefully, this hunk of metal and glass will help us snag a few keepers here and there :)


Photo by Sol

Photo by Matt - SR Vincent is a jumping man.

Photo by Matt

Photo by Matt

Photo by Matt

Photo by Matt

What I learned about my lens: Have fun in the water more often!

cheers!

matt

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Dr Russell Brown | Photoshop Guru in Mexico
05.03.2010 in Main, Adventures | by Sol Tamargo

A few weeks ago, , Senior Creative Director from Adobe... Russell Brown was visiting and we arranged to go out for a little del Sol adventure to see the wonderful nature of the Riviera Maya.... Be sure to check out his blog where he will be using some of our images for his tutorials..

Here are a few shots from our adventure..



Sol's photo: The guero LOVES to shoot with his tripoid underwater, here he is concentrating in a wonderul image

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Cool rainy day / algee boom at the cenote...

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Matt's photo (notice the Photosynthesis bubbles) I LOVE LOVE this image, normally the water is crystal clear, this day the algee was doing some crazy things (we need to learn more about the process) so the colors were totally dreamy and amazing, like a fairy tale, on top of that, photosynthesis was happening!!!! WOW!!!

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Sol's photo, so here I am in this magic world, under the rain

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Matt's photo (Here is Russell and a crazy face moment from him)..He has almost as much energy as I do :) (He WAS More energy than you guero!!!)

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Sol's photo, entering the underworld

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Sol's photo Russell is amazed!

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Sol's photo This was a MAGIC FUN AWESOME DAY!!

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Sol's photo (Russell with his Don Julio)

Sol's photo We finished the day enjoying a delicious "sopa de tortilla and margaritas" at this restaurant in Akumal, it was raining, raining raining.. so much fun!

Russell, your crazy personality Rocks!!! thanks for hanging out with us!!!

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03.20.2010 Josh + Lara Trash the Dress | Photos by Matt Adcock and Sol Tamargo
04.22.2010 in Adventures, Trash the Dress, Trash The Dress | by Sol Tamargo

Passion brought us together. Matt and I loved what we do before we knew each other, when fate and destiny merged our paths into one, we had no idea how awesome our lives would be.

:)


Having the opportuniy to travel, discover new places and live new adventures is the best thing we could ever dream of, BUT photographing people with the same love for each other , and looking forward to live crazy adventures is just incredible!!

We are in Belize, Amberguis Caye "La Isla Bonita" (from madonna's song).. wedding was yesterday, the sun is shinning, the skies are blue, and the ocean is waiting...

Lara and Josh TTD was super challenging technically and physically for everybody., we literally had to be jumping 3 boats, swimming, walking...all under the sun and holding lots of very expensive gear; however we had a blast! and awesome images that be treasure forever

Josh and Lara, you gave us the opportunity to live our dream, we wish you to continue living yours, may love and passion be ever present in your lives!


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Amazing amazing colors!!


Sol's photo. We literally had to jump from a boat to a boat that will take us to the other boat.. how fun!

Matt's photo: Lara was terrified about the idea of jumping into the ocean, we were in a reef where rays and sharks are usual visitors.. ( we weren't that lucky that day)

Matt's photo, besides fish they only saw this friendly pretty turtle

Matt's photo: The ocean was wavy, and the currents very strong, so we were there for only a few minutes

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Sol's photo: We were driving the boat around in the middle of this huge inmense blue ocean, when we saw this ... in the middle of nowhere... a fisherman's "shack"... we had to stop and take a photo..


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Sol's photo How cool and bizarre is to find such a place in the middle of the ocean???


Sol's photo: Vamonos!

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Sol's photo: Ok enough with the water, let's go to town to get a drink!!

Sol's photo: Back in the catamaran heading to San Pedro Town



Sol's photo: We are in San Pedro Town, "La Isla Bonita"

Sol's photo:Josh, you are in the wrong bathroom!!! (jajaja)

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Matt's photo: This was hillarious, Josh stop to buy some bananas, we asked Lara if she would sit down, immediatly this local guy took the opportunity to hug her

Matt's photo: Oh no! She's trying to escape!

Sol's photo: neighboors are having a great time watching..

Sol's photo: Adios senorita!!! (everybody was laughing so hard!!.. including Lara and Josh)

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Matt's photo: This nice men, "Don Emilio" kindly offered a chair and a some words of wisdom for the newly weds.

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Sol's photo Otro perrito mirando a los novios

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Sol's photo: Everybody in town was super excited to see "bride and groom" walking around , someone snapped a photo and they even made it to the local paper news.

Sol's photo: Back at the boat, where Josh and Lara will continue with a Romantic evening.. the end of a PURRFECT DAY!!!

GRACIAS POR LA INCREIBLE AVENTURA!!!

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Matt and Sol the Belice Adventure
03.17.2010 in Adventures, Weddings, Main | by Sol Tamargo

We are in Belice!!

Lara & Josh a Canadian couple had the original idea of getting married on a sand bar in Belice, and hired Del Sol to come document the adventure and the ttd to follow.

We LOVE adventures and the opportunity to come see a new place, and discover the underwater world was a must! so here we are, on the Belicean caribe, working.. (haha...!)

The adventure started driving 4 hours from Playa del Carmen to the Belice border, you have to do a few things in order to get "approved" to come to the country, like get an insurance for the car, and spray it for bugs, and of course get trough customs.

Still in Mexico, about to cross the border..

We made it to Corozal, this is where we are taking the flight to go to Amberguis Caye



While we wait to the flight, we found a bar, perfecto!!


A Belicean Beer was needed to aclimate to the new country!





Hola!!!!




Arrived to San Pedro


And had to take a boat to our hotel


This is where we will depart for our dives too, it's exciting!


My handsome guero on sunset light




We arrived early, so we could spend a few days exploring and enjoying the company of Toni and Phil, Matt's parents , here is Phil welcoming us, they got here a couple of hours before us




And Lara and Josh show up to say hello!


This is our room


And the view from it


The next day morning I went to town to buy some groceries, it's 60 miles away and the fastest (45 mins) way to get there is by boat


The town is very colorful, I only had 25 mins to find a grocery store and get some food, so no much time for photos


I was super tired after the long day yesterday to get to the island, so that afternoon I did nothing... nothing but read, nap and rest


Life is good from a hamac :)


Next day, we had to woke up at 4:45 am to get on the boat for the most amazing diving adventure




We are ready!


The water is gorgeous!. We hit the BLUE HOLE a World Wonder, I didn't take my camara there as I wanted to get comfortable with all the diving controls that you should pay attention to., we went down 144 ft., it was amazing!!! Matt as fearless as he is, had his camera and he made some incredible video, and photos:


Here's a diagram of the blue hole, basically it drops down and there are caves on the side of it, huge stalactites and stalagmatices make this place surreal

Matts photo

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This is me, trying to catch a "air bubble" that our dive master did for me, I didn't know Matt was taking the photo, so cool!


After the Blue Hole, we went to Half Moon Caye Wall, I have to say this is the MOST AWESOME REEF we have ever seen, only a poet could describe the beauty of it.


I learned that you need a red filter to compensate all the blue at that depht, so the actual colors can be appreciated, I didn't have that red filter.. :(

A mantarray flew by!

Matt and Phil

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After the first 2 dives, they took us to Half Moon Caye Park, to have lunch



Delicious local flavors at the table



















The island is also a bird sanctuary, this little guy was reascue by the take care people after he fell from the nest



Hola!!





After luch we were ready to go for the 3rd dive of the day





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Matt was using a underwater flash system, the images he got are full of live and vibrant colors!, he was shooting manual, camara and flash, plus taking care of everything you need to be paying attention while diving., he is a true aquaman!

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And that was the end of the dive, after that we had a 2 1/2 hrs ride on the boat to get the San Pedro + a 30 mins ride on another boat to get to our hotel. I was cold, and sea sick, but amazed.. totally amazed with all the beauty I saw! It was worth it!!!

Today we woke up to a rainy day, Matt is out there on the sea, with Lara and Josh, looking for the perfect sand bar to have the wedding ceremony on friday. I'm here at the hotel lobby, making this blog post so you can see this magic underworld.

Weather is supposed to be back on "sunny " tomorrow, let's hope so!

:)

Be back soon with wedding stuff!!

SOL