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Formentera
For the past four days, Nate and I have been working like crazy on our film about lizards of the Mediterranean islands. We’ve witnessed and filmed some truly spectacular lizard behavior. Today was our last day of filming and we now have many hours of footage to edit. Despite our busy filming schedule I did [...]
Lumpsucker
As I write this I’m waiting for my flight to Spain, where I’m visiting photographer, filmmaker and biologist Nate Dappen of Day’s Edge Productions. Nate and I will work on a short film about the lizards inhabiting Formentera, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. I met Nate at the Nature Photography Summit earlier this year [...]
Dive Another Day
It’s an underwater photographer’s worst nightmare: a red light on your underwater housing blinking frantically, screaming: LEAK! LEAK! LEAK! Yikes! I just had a leak for the first time during a dive to test a new drysuit. A scary amount of water got into the camera housing in the few seconds it was submerged, but [...]
Schooling Perch in ‘t Veenmeer
Probably my favourite time to dive ‘t Veenmeer is late summer. At this time large numbers of juvenile perch Perca fluviatilis form schools, and to swim along them in the evening sunlight, hearing only the sound of your own breathing, is the most peaceful and relaxing experience. ‘t Veenmeer (which translates to something like ‘The [...]
Bleaks and Water Lilies in the River Yonne
Welcome to the gloomy yet beautiful world of the juvenile Bleak Alburnus alburnus. Here, a forest of water lily stems makes its way up from the murky riverbed all the way to the surface, and the otherwise bright sunlight is reduced to a distant glow, as it seeps in through a roof of large, floating [...]
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