Diving

i don’t have a story like iron man and me , but a nice one to tell anyways:

about four months ago a miss gômez castro contacted me through flickr about the photo of our guide steffen i shot about four years ago with an ultracheap disposable underwater camera in sharm el sheikh.

she wrote me that she came across my photo and she:

… found it very interesting and we would like to use it for educational purposes in a book. We’re currently editing for the publishing company Santillana Group in Argentina. This photo would be appropriate as supporting graphical material for an interior page dealing with related subject matter. It would be included in a book for elementary school, to be used in public and private schools.

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wie vielleicht schon zu erraten war, bin ich über pfingsten in cadaques in spanien am tauchen gewesen.

so war jedenfalls der plan. leider konnten wir aufgrund des schlechten wetters und starken ostwindes nicht so viel tauchen wie wir wollten. aus den geplanten sieben tauchgängen wurden dann nur drei in relativ unspektakulären buchten. trotzdem sind über die tage ein paar fotos entstanden, die finden sich in meinem cadaques-set auf flickr oder in der bilder-abteilung . auf flickr sind zusätzlich zu den beiden videos hier auch noch zwei andere filmli zu finden.

as mentioned before i’ve been diving in the verzasca this weekend. now i’m uploading all the images to flickr. you can see the images in this set here .

the two videos below are videos i shot and uploaded to youtube, the first one shows ändu blowing some bubbles. while shooting the second one i nearly peed in my divesuit ‘cause the thing that swam through scared me quite a bit, but see for yourself…

we ’ve been diving in elba for the past few days.

as always, it was really impressive under water and the days with all the people were a blast.

the image below shows a small plane-wreck we’ve seen under water. it’s a panorama stitched from 6 pictures. all the other pictures i shot will be online soon, i’ll tell you when they are.

technorati tags: diving , panorama , potw

until some hours ago i believed that maybe i made the first ever underwater panorama photograph, while on the philippines. a simple google search proved me wrong, there is already much more impressive work available online (see here , for the first ever published underwater panorama [1]). nonetheless i’m gonna tell you the story of the panorama of my alma jane shot in this post.

while we resurfaced from the alma jane i shot 7 images of the wreck and then tried to reconnect them later on with the excellent hugin for osx . as i mentioned before i started to use makecubic from apple to convert the .tiff-files from hugin to quicktime vr .mov files which are sometimes more pleasant to view.

i didn’t shoot any pictures this week, so i’m picking another one from our holidays on the philippines. although the nudibranch is not in focus i quite like the image below, mostly because of its vibrant colors. you can see some more images from our holidays in the pictures section or on flickr (which is better for the panoramas, ‘cause you can see them in a bigger size…).

technorati tags: corals , diving , nudibranch , underwater

i’m going on a vacation (again). i’m leaving sunday afternoon to the philippines . nina and me will be diving with the cocktail divers in puerto galera/sabang . hopefully we’ll see some fish and be able to take loads of pictures, so i got to share something with all of you when we return.

have two nice weeks and behave!

technorati tags: diving , philippines

if you haven’t seen them alredy, you might want to step over to the pictures section, to see the 62 most watch-worthy pictures i took last weekend. some are underwater, but most of them didn’t turn out that good, mostly ‘cause the water was hazy.

technorati tags: diving , esacala , spain , underwater

i’ve been diving this weekend, and christened my underwater-case for my digital camera. turns out that it’s quite hard to take good pictures in the Mediterranean in may. i’m sorting through all the pictures, but at a first glance i liked the one below quite good.

it’s sigi at about 16m below surface exiting the cave at the dive-site tres covas. looks like a thing from outer space.

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yesterday i’ve been diving again. yes, diving in the cold thuner-see , the water was around 5°C. we’ve again been at the schönörtli (german for nice place).

because i wore a dry suit [1] i was only nearly freezing my ass off (more the hands than the ass, ‘cause i was wearing wet gloves). the dive was really spectacular, the sight underwater was amazing, much better than in the summer. and it’s really fun to dive with a dry suit, you feel like stuck in a balloon and can shift the air in thta balloon depending on the position you have. the picture below shows raymond and beat during their dive, having a break at the surface. can you see how clear the water is, you’re able to see the stones at the bottom…