Many consider the Blue Heron Bridge the premier dive site in Florida to see small invertebrates and rare fish. Creatures rarely seen on other dive spots can be found here. Seahorses, frog fish, stargazer, tiny crustaceans, octopus and many more subjects that are a delight to photographers.
In 2009 I came back to the Anhumas Abyss with a team from ESPN Brasil that was filming one more episode for the “Viajantes Radicais” (Radical Travelers) TV series. This episode brings a remake of the journey Claude Lévi-Strauss, a Belgian French anthropologist, endured in Brazil between 1935 and 1939. I joined a few days of the shooting around Serra da Boboquena, including a dive on the Anhumas Abyss.
The Arvoredo Island is one of the premier dive sites of the Brazilian south coast. The island is about 11km off the coast of Santa Catarina. There are dive operations in the towns of Florianópolis and Bombinhas. Now almost 90% of the island dive sites are inside a marine reserve and diving is prohibited. The [...]
Few months ago I went to the Bahamas for a family vacation but could not resist doing al least one dive: Stuart’s Cove Shark Adventure. Stuart Cove has been a big name in the diving industry for a long time and his shark dives are world famous. He also helped with the production of many [...]
The “Laje de Santos” is one of the main dive sites in São Paulo state. The word “laje” in Portuguese means a flat rocky formation. In this case, it is a rocky island about 20 miles off the coast of Santos, Brazil. The last time I dove there was 1991, and a few weeks ago [...]
Even though I have been going to Bonito since 1999, I never had the chance to dive at one of its premier diving spots: the Lagoa Misteriosa (or “Misterious Lake” ,that actually is located at the neighboring city of Jardim). In early June, myself and two other Norwegian photographers got a special permission to dive [...]
This year I managed to achieve better results at the Avistar photo contest. One of my photos ended in first place at the “best record” category and another one in third place at the “best photo” category. I took the picture below during a short trip to Fazenda Barra Mansa in south Pantanal. The lodge [...]
The Harpy Eagle is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the Americas. Too see and photograph one of these animals in a natural habitat is a fantastic experience. They are not easy to find since they need big patches of preserved tropical forest for its survival. To increase the chances of seeing one, [...]
Avistar is a birdwatching fair held once a year in São Paulo. Along with the fair, Banco Itaú sponsors a bird photo contest that quickly became the most important bird photo competition in Brazil, as it gives away good prizes and attracts a lot of photographers. In the first time I entered the contest I [...]
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