From august 2004 till september 2005 I've been living in Moorea, the sister island of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
In january 2005 I switched from film photography to digital; I stopped using my Nikon FM2 and Sensia slide films and bought my first Nikon D70, a water proof housing and my first computer.
That's the beauty of being 55 years old today: I've been living a normal life without computers and internet until I was 43 years old; and now I can appreciate these technologies as I have had a real life before ;)
It gave me the chance to take pictures of tourists under water with sharks, rays and turtles and so I created a job that sustained me for one year on a tiny island where there was no electricity.
Some people liked their pictures so much that they still have them as fb profile picture to this day :) but of course the most beautiful pictures for me where the ones with no people on them.
As I didn't have enough money to buy flash lights I was condemned to shoot not too deep or else I would lose all colours and at first it was some kind of frustration but in the end I decided to try to shoot from the surface, well, just under the water surface and that created these beautiful pictures where you can see half under the water and half over it, outside.
No need for photoshop!
I got the inspiration from a picture I saw in a travelling agency advertising for Air New Zealand; it was just amazing!
Outside, by the side of a river, in a forest and with mountains in the background a fisherman was fishing and under the water you could see a fish bite the bait, in the foreground.
I shot that turtle on a rainy day with no tourists around, so no work for me but with a ray of sun finding its way under the water.
Forgive me for my poor English, I'm French :)
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STOPVery Beautiful!
Wow!
Thank you for sharing! :-)