For 38 years, the World Festival of Underwater Pictures has brought together artistic, photographic and cinematographic productions related to the underwater world. For five days at the end of October each year the Festival offers the general public a window on the seas and oceans of the world.
I have always wanted to shoot some 360 panoramas underwater. I was recently at Bonito in Brazil and thought it was a perfect place to try it. It turned to be not an easy task, once everything underwater is moving, from fish to the water surface. To make things worst there was a very big [...]
I was in Fernando de Noronha for the last time in 2004. It was the last from a series of 8 visits to the island in order to finish my book “Fernando de Noronha Terra e Água” published at end of that year. Since then I was busy with other projects and didn’t had a chance to go back. The opportunity rose in June this year, when friend and photographer Fernando Clark planned to visit to the island to finish his upcoming photo book.
The Goliath Grouper is the one of the largest fish of the grouper family and can weight as much as 800 lbs. Their range includes the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, practically all of the Brazilian coast as well as Congo to Senegal on the eastern Atlantic. They species is classified as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and have been protected in the US since 1990, in the Caribbean since 1993 and in Brazil since 2002.
The Rio Verde’s headwater is located near the city of Itanorte, in the State of Mato Grosso. From there, the waters go north trough the rivers Sacre, Papagaio, Jurema, Tapajós until finally reaching the Amazon River.
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.
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 [...]
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