After the last two dives at Liberty Wreck in Tulamben we travelled on to Sanur, where I could at last use my wide angle and fisheye lenses for large animals ;-) In Crystal Bay I tried to photograph the ocean sunfish (Mola Mola),...
The trip to Bali passed without problems, and on the first few days I have been photographing at the diving sites Puri Jati and Tulamben (Secret Bay - Liberty Wreck).
The remote site Puri Jati has changed for the worse; there...
I am on the way to Johannesburg (South Africa) and will travel on to my fourth “Sardine Run” via Durban to Port St. Johns in the Transkei. The “Sardine Run” is a natural phenomenon which I have so far unfortunately only been able...
In the unterwasser issue for May 2008 there are some ocean sunfish photos of mine. I took them on the Azores in June 2005. They show a huge ocean sunfish – also called Mola Mola – with the remains of a Portuguese man o'war...
My repeated journey to Pico Island on the Azores Azoren was not successful, as I found hardly any animals. I only had the luck to photograph sperm whales. Even common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins were seldom to be seen....
At last I am returning to the Azores, to photograph baleen whales ! I arrived in Lisbon today, and am flying on tomorrow to Pico Island. At the same time last year I was able to photograph finback whales ...
On order to check out the diving possibilities in Malta and Gozo, I have been there for a few days. The weather was unfortunately so bad that there was no chance of a dive. On top of this, a guide booked from Oxygène diving was...
Last weekend, during a routine dive with the safari boat M/V Shear Water (belonging to the US company Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures (JASA)), an Austrian diver was bitten by a shark during baiting. Despite efforts to save him...
The US photo agency Getty Images has found a new owner. The private holding company Hellman & Friedman has bought Getty Images for around 2.4 billion US$, after the agency had put itself up for sale.
I will be interested to see...
The largest picture agency in the world, Getty Images, has put itself up for sale after they failed to find a buyer for the company. That is a very unusual piece of news that I picked up form the financial press! Getty stands for...
