Kelly Jones Photography

Name: Kelly Jones Photography
Address: San Pedro, BZ
Telephone: 817 265-0440

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This is my "photography" site, with a little more emphasis on the camera and photographic techniques than my "regular" page.

08/09/2026

Here's the photograph underlying yesterday's AI travel poster.

During the recent Belizean dives, we were blessed on two dives by the presence of a majestic spotted eagle ray. While they are typically wary and veer away from divers, this obliging ray made three or four passes by our delighted dive group.

This was a large ray, with a wing-tip to wing-tip measurement of at least six - seven feet!

While the typical spotted eagle ray photograph is from above, showing their iconic white spots and circular markings on their black backs, on this ray's final pass I was able to obtain the more elusive side capture.

This is another iPhone image with my iPhone 16 Pro. I intend to use my iPhone underwater housings with increased frequency.

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

07/09/2026

Travel, anyone? Here's an AI travel poster for diving in San Pedro, using one of my recent iPhone photographs.

My great friend, and phenomenal photographer, Miles Smith, has been making tremendous travel posters the last ten days or so, and I decided to join his party.

06/09/2026

Nothing special here, but after seeing the green morays, here's a less-common spotted moray.

Spotted morays are smaller than their larger green cousins, usually between 18" to 3' in length.

As you can see, they have the same mannerisms - hiding in the coral with only their heads sticking out.

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

04/09/2026

Here are the requisite and obligatory green moray photographs from the dive trip.

We see morays sporadically - sometimes on almost every dive, and then we might not see them for several days. They are out and active at night, but during the day they are typically holed up in crevices within the coral. If you approach too suddenly, they retreat back into the coral.

They are typically 3' - 5' in length, but can reach as large as 8'.

While quite aggressive in appearance, I've only seen one non-provoked bite, briefly on my friend Mitch Sjolin's hand.

Special thanks to The San Pedro Suns readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

02/09/2026

Here are a couple of photographs of red-tipped sea goddesses.

These are nudibranchs, in the mollusk family. Essentially, they are sea snails.

They are quite small (1" – 1 ¾” long), with white bodies tipped in red and yellow, and red antennae and gills. They feed on sponges.

Nudibranchs are uncommon, but for whatever reason we observed several on these late August dives,

They can be somewhat challenging to photograph because their tiny size creates depth of field sharpness issues.

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

31/08/2026

Here's the last one from San Pedro before heading back to Texas this afternoon.

We've all heard rumors about how widely groupers can open their mouths - here you go!

This was a relatively large black grouper, maybe 30-36” or so, that followed the group around during our 15’ safety stop. I kept an eye on him, and I don't know if it was showing off, or just giving a big yawn, but you can see a lot of fish can go into that mouth!

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

30/08/2026

Eighteen fabulous dives in the log book here in San Pedro, and Susan and I will be “Winging it Home to Texas” (thank you, Jerry Jeff) tomorrow afternoon.

This may have been the best diving I've experienced in all my years coming to San Pedro!

Here is my single favorite turtle pose: a beautiful green turtle, high in the water with nothing but the ocean in the background, and turned at about a 45° angle.

This was a small green turtle, maybe two feet in shell length. For my money, green turtles are by far the prettiest of the sea turtles: their shells are spectacularly green and pristinely unblemished (unlike hawksbills, which often have algae stains, or loggerheads, which often have barnacles, on their shells).

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

29/08/2026

Here are a couple of young smooth trunkfish.

(Can you believe these are not called "spotted trunkfish?" There's a related fish with bigger spots that claims that name!)

Smooth trunkfish tend to be wary of divers, but with a little patience you'll find them in a little cove in the coral where they will just stare back at you.

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

27/08/2026

Here is something we rarely see underwater - squids!

Squids are members of the cephalopod family, which also includes octopus and cuttlefish.

Squids can change colors and patterns instantly, and do that for camouflage, to issue a warning, and for mating. They use their tentacles to capture and hold prey while feeding on it.

Like octopus, squids can defend themselves with ink.

Cephalopods are intelligent creatures, and in captivity have been known to climb out of their aquariums, move along a lab floor, enter another aquarium to feed on crabs, and then return to their original aquarium!

Special thanks to The San Pedro Sun's readers' poll #1 dive shop in San Pedro, Chuck & Robbie's Scuba Diving & Instruction, and Robbie S. Gonzalez, Felipe Ancona, Eder Eloy Gonzalez, Alamilla Rene, Giovanni Gonzalez, Luis Toriz, Jahmar Stuart, and Rashawn Gonzalez.

26/08/2026

Here's a far-better edited version of yesterday morning's spotted eagle ray ....

Lesson to self (again): Breathe. Step back. An edited photograph is not really finished until you've set it down and gone back to it some time later!

In my excitement over seeing this majestic animal, I forgot that crucial lesson.

For my Lightroom Classic friends: I was amazed that LrC's object selection tool even picked up the ray's very long and thin tail!

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