I am on the way to Johannesburg (South Africa) and will travel on to my fourth "Sardine Run" via Durban to Port St. Johns in the Transkei. The "Sardine Run" is a natural phenomenon which I have so far unfortunately only been able...

In the unterwasser issue for May 2008 there are some ocean sunfish photos of mine. I took them on the Azores in June 2005. They show a huge ocean sunfish - also called Mola Mola - with the remains of a

My repeated journey to Pico Island on the Azores Azoren was not successful, as I found hardly any animals. I only had the luck to photograph sperm whales. Even common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins were seldom to be seen....

At last I am returning to the Azores, to photograph baleen whales ! I arrived in Lisbon today, and am flying on tomorrow to Pico Island. At the same time last year I was able to photograph finback whales ...

On order to check out the diving possibilities in Malta and Gozo, I have been there for a few days. The weather was unfortunately so bad that there was no chance of a dive. On top of this, a guide booked from Oxygène diving was...

Last weekend, during a routine dive with the safari boat M/V Shear Water (belonging to the US company Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures (JASA)), an Austrian diver was bitten by a shark during baiting. Despite efforts to save him...

The US photo agency Getty Images has found a new owner. The private holding company Hellman & Friedman has bought Getty Images for around 2.4 billion US$, after the agency had put itself up for sale.

I will be interested to see...

The largest picture agency in the world, Getty Images, has put itself up for sale after they failed to find a buyer for the company. That is a very unusual piece of news that I picked up form the financial press! Getty stands for...

The New Zealand daily paper Nelson Mail reported today that some pilot whales have beached and died on South Island. Looking at the photos of the whales on the beach, I would think that they were "long-finned pilot whales". There...

The Nikon Solutions Expo, the event of the year for professional photography and high-end imaging, is from the 30.11. to the 1.12.07 in Cologne - EXPO XXI at the Gladbacher Wall. The new Nikon cameras D3 and D300 will be...