In Halle 11 auf der boot Düsseldorf nimmt euch der weltbekannte Freediver und Unterwasserfotograf Fred Buyle mit in die Tiefe. Auf der Bühne der Water Pixel World spricht er über Freediving-Fotografie – über das Arbeiten ohne Atemgerät, absolute Präsenz unter Wasser und die einzigartige Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Ozean.
#bootdüsseldorf #welovewater #fotografie #waterpixelworld
Short clip of me ascending from a dive taken by @baptisteloiseau_ We spent two days in Faial waters to shoot for legend free rider @richardpermin . Refreshing to see a young photographer/videographer using freediving, minimalistic shooting style and esthetics instead of going for the fashionable bright and video-clip look. In design, architecture and art in general less is more, it's timeless and invites you to imagine stories about what you can't see. #underwaterphotography #freediving #lessismore #slowdown #nikon
Mahi mahi are often found aggregating near floating objects in the open ocean. A small thing like this buoy and a few meters of rope hanging from it can hold large amount of individuals.
Floating objects are creating a drifting micro ecosystem: plankton, small crustaceans, barnacles, small fishes form a food chain.
Mahi mahi use them to find and ambush preys as well as reproduction areas. Always consider any small floating object floating in the ocean is like an oasis in the dessert.
Even if you don’t see big fish around, it carries a lot of biodiversity.
Problem is that most of the time these ecosystems are using plastic debris to thrive…kind of ironic right?
#mahimahi #freediving #freediver #freedivingphotography #offshore #azores #açores #plasticpollution #fad #nikon #nikonambassador #maresjustaddwater #subalhousing
Close interactions with mahi-mahi are far from being usual. To have un usual encounters spend time where you usually don't spend time and where there is supposly not much to be seen. Explorer different groupes and idéal, worst thing that can happen is to be successful!
#mahimahi #offshorediving #underwaterphotography #freedivingphotography #nikon #subalhousing #Acores #azores
An offshore encounter with Coryphaena hippurus, aka mahi-mahi, is always a privilege. These pelagic voracious predators are totally adapted to their environment.
Streamlined and powerful, they can reach 80km/h+ when hunting, they can change color quickly to camouflage and display emotions.
They are amongst the fastest growing fishes, these individuals of around 5kg are only a year old! They can reproduce after only 4 months when they reach 35cm, they live around five years and their size can then be close to 40kg.
They are not the easiest animal to photograph, living offshore and being predators you need to find them in the imensity of the ocaan and when you find them they need to be in the right mindset.These were very cooperative and allowed me to capture their amazing colors up close, almost touching the dome port in front of the fisheye lens.
#mahimahi #coryphaena #dorado #pelagic #freedivingphotography #underwaterphotography #nikon #nikonambassador #subalhousing #maresjustaddwater
Another round of our juvenile hammerhead shark research completed with @robertpriester and @okeanos_uac .
The tag hosts depth and temperature sensors as well as a camera recording up to 10h to document the shark’s regular day at the office.
It stays on the animal for 24h then floats back to the surface and thanks to a vhf beacon we can retrieve it at sea.
The data are dowloaded, the battery is charged and it’s ready for another deployment.
We choose carefully the deployment day to have 48h of good weather ahead to be sure to recover the tag in manageable sea conditions.
The whole procedure is simple on paper but think about all the things that can go wrong when combining electronics and salt water, a wild animal and an unpredictable ocean!
On the same day we could tag another shark and both tags were recovered.
#shark #sharkresearch #sharkscience #hammerhead #hammerheadshark #shark conservation #freediving #freediver #azores #acores #maresjustaddwater #nikon #nikonz
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Early morning mobula ray, low sunrays drawing marble like paterns on the skin.
Very curious lonely individual, we spent 15min interacting together, very un usual.
#mobula #mobularay #mantaray #freediving #freediver #underwaterphotography #freedivingphotography #nikon #nikonz
Lâcher prise et observer.
Parfois, ne rien faire... c’est faire
l’essentiel.
Flotter, se laisser porter, observer.
Sous l’eau, j’ai appris à lâcher le contrôle. À ne pas être dans la performance, mais dans la présence. C’est dans ces instants suspendus que je ressens le plus fort ce lien au vivant, à l’environnement, à moi-même.
Et vous, c’est quand la dernière fois que vous avez juste observé, sans agir ?
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Let go and observe.
Sometimes, doing nothing... it’s doing
the essential.
Float, let oneself be carried by, observe.
Underwater, I learned to let go of control. Not to be in the performance, but in the presence. It is in these suspended moments that I feel most strongly this link to the living, to the environment, to myself.
And you, when was the last time you just observed, without acting?
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#morganbourchis #oceanlover #apnée #securite#photography #swimming #underwater #entrainement #training #divetraining#marseille #septentrion#marseilledive
For that last post related to Jaws 50th anniversary I wanted to write about the legacy.
Many of us think that the movie did lots of harm to sharks, I think the opposite. The fear of the beast was present in the collective unconscious since the beginning of mankind so a movie couldn't modify that much. There might have been some act of revenge that killed a few sharks but these limited negative acts are far from outbalancing the positive impacts of the movie.
Imagine the amount of people who got interested in sharks and the oceans, the amount of people who embarked in careers that eventually would help awareness and conservation. No other movie had such an impact on a topic directly related to the wilderness.
Nowadays we need more movies that can reconnect the humans to nature because that is the number one issue we are facing. All our societal and environmental problems we are experiencing are caused by that disconnection with nature.
I’d go further, most of the contemporary nature documentaries that are supposed to help people with their complex relationship with nature related issues are just a compilation of spectacular footages and/or terrible images of the worst things we do to our environment.
It is again opposing nature and humans instead of reconciling them.
The final words will of course be for the great white shark. This formidable and symbolic animal isn’t threatening us, it is critical danger of extinction and only only less than 4000 are still roaming our oceans!
That is much more scary than any horror movie. In less than 50 years we are about to wipe out an animal that for millions of years was totally adapted to its environment.
The picture portraits Emma, a 5m+ female living in the Pacific ocean. Every time I look at the pic taken in 2014 and how she proudly displays the scares and the bruises I can’t avoid thinking how harsh it is to be an apex predator trying to survive in a dying ocean.
#jawsmovie #jaws #jaws50 #greatwhiteshark #sharkdiving #underwaterphotography #seamonster #apexpredator #freedivingphotography #freediving #marineconservation
Jaws paved the way for countless movies involving sharks eating people. Using human’s primal fear like the monster lurking in deep and cold waters is the best recipe to attract viewers to any kind of media production!
Documentaries on the other hand are supposed to be educative, balanced and shouldn’t use these easy shortcuts to capture the spectator's attention.
Unfortunately a lot of shark focused documentaries fall in the trap and depict them again as senseless bloodthirsty killers. I’ve been involved in shark focused media for more than 20 years and I often had to fight to avoid these shortcuts in productions and I had to turn down many project that were way too focussed on sensationalism rather than proper way of showing sharks for what they truly are. Look at Shark Week for example…
Same goes with photos, I often refuse the use of images I took in media because out of a specific context they would be used to show something at 180° of what it represents. An simple example, a picture of a great white with a freediver swimming can have two very different captions, the first one being « a great white shark and a freediver peacefully and respectfully swimming in open water » and the second one « a great white shark about to attack and devour a freediver ». Same picture but very different editorial goals!
Amongst many documentaries I participated in, I can see two that were very well balanced and showing the true nature of the great white shark.
The pictures are from these documentaries. You can see Christian Petron the camera operator and director of Adventure Ocean Quest filming us amongst great whites using an oxygen rebreather. The other pictures were taken during the shooting of the IMAX film Great White Sharks 3D in which I was also involved. Both still can be seen nowadays, on platforms for AOC and IMAX theaters are regularly showing GWS3D.
It’s a personal satisfaction to have contributed to give mainstream audiences a different take on white sharks and that it hopefully might have reduced a bit the irrational fear towards sharks in general.
#jaws #jaws50 #sharkmovie #sharkdiving #sharkfreediving #freediving #imax #sharkweek
