Art + Function: Jamaica By Joe Termini

So I went on a trip to Jamaica with my girlfriend. It was so unbelievably beautiful. We had the best time. We stayed at a hotel in Negril called the Rock House. Here are some pics from the trip

This may be my favorite image from this trip. I like to photograph with this really cool under water camera. It looks like it fell out of a Jacque Custo book. I was swimming through some caves under water. There is a little spot between the two caves you can grab some air before going through the second one. As I was surfacing I snapped this quick.

So this is my girlfriend diving into the water off this cliff right in front of our little villa. It’s so beautiful. You walk out your front door about 10 feet and you have a small patio with a 8 ft. jump into the Caribbean. The whole hotel is set in a secluded cove.

I was snorkeling for about an hour just staring at all this interesting stuff under water. I was in the zone when I heard this funny noise. It was this guy motoring around dropping all this chum in the water. He was drawing these little fish around his glass bottom boat. Then he was catching them and using them for bait. I have to use the word glass bottom boat loosely. It was more like he had a massive hole in his boat that he covered with clear resin.

So this one of the small caves under water you can swim through. All of the colors and the reef are so beautiful there. I felt like a little kid swimming through hulu hoops in the pool again. I must of done it 100 times. It didn’t matter it was just so cool.

Here is the Misses jumping off our patio into the water. It was so great. There is no one around. It’s like sleep away camp for adults.

This was my James Bond shot for the weekend. Amis (My GF) was walking up the stairs in one of the caves we swam over too.

Come on, would this be a Joe Termini blog without me doing something nuts? Amis snagged this of me right before I hit the water. Can you see where I jumped from? Exactly! It was so high and I almost fell off like 6 times trying to get up there.