girl dives underwater

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I’m honoured and very happy to have received an editor’s choice award for this picture!
It was taken in the Egyptian Red Sea in the Ras Mohammed marine park…
Towards summer each year, large schools of fish gather in the area to spawn. Although (illegal) fishing in the area has decimated the size of the schools over the years, it remains a spectacular sight to see.
Barracuda, Bohar Snapper, Jacks, unicorn fish, not to mention bat-fish gather in these tight schools, only splitting when divers are overcome with the urge to swim through the middle of them.
It’s amazing to witness and I sincerely hope the dwindling numbers of fish don’t disappear altogether over the next couple of years.

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Romantic couple underwater

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Light rays in a fantastic cave

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A family pod of Sperm Whales being filmed by my colleague.
This pod of about 10 whales was part of a super-pod of about 50 whales in the area around us.

Southern Sri Lanka.

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“Static for a Second”

Photographing underwater is challenging enough. There is all the equipment, the movement of the water, the limited air supply, etc, etc.

And then you have anemonefish.

At first glance, they seem to be an easy subject. They stay around their anemone and don’t stray far from it. Great! But…they almost never stop swimming. Dashing and darting to and fro, it can be a fool’s errand to try and track them with your camera. Instead, it often works out better to simply find a composition in the folds of the anemone and wait for a little “nemo” to rest for a brief moment in your frame.

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Manta ray in the sun of Hanifaru Bay, Maldives.
Our Nature and Oceans must be preserved!

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For the first time ever I’m selling prints… Not for myself, but to raise money to save Eliza. Our goal is for each photographer featured on the site to raise a 1000$ !! Race is on, please help me help Eliza:

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This image was taken in an underwater shipwreck in Bali back in February featuring Camilla Argent a freediver.

Chris Simanjuntak was responsible for helping put the entire production side of things together gathering dive safety, clothing (Ali Charisma), makeup ( Yenny Gunawan ) second model ( Nora Li ) to be part of this amazing project.

Siva Shanker flew down from Singapore to shoot a BTS video – so don’t worry you’ll see how it was all done.

And special thanks to my family, Sam Tsang and Cassandra AnnDragon for making all of this possible

Love you all

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