Underwater River Scenery Pictures, Page 2

Here's one of my first test underwater pictures with the Pentax Optio WPi. It's a very shallow riffle in a clear trout stream.

Light beams filter through a wavy surface.

Here's the stream bottom of a newly renovated artificial channel created by the Wisconsin DNR to restore the natural flow of a small stream that had previously been diverted through a series of shallow, water-warming old private hatchery ponds.

I took this picture of the underside of a large slab of ice in a northern Wisconsin river in early February. I got cold.

Even in the winter there's some green weed growth at the bottom of a healthy trout stream.

Light reflected from air bubbles left ghostly wisps in this fairly long exposure picture beneath a riffle. It's got an accidental artistic look.

Here's the underside of a "lunker structure", a manmade undercut bank where trout love to hang out. It's amazing how much I've seen the trout use these things. I've also noticed that the best trout populations I've seen are in streams where lunker structures have been installed.

The fresh spring water here is so clear it's hard to believe it's an underwater picture at all.