Photographer - 'Manta' : Stunning images from a blogger passionate about underwater photography.
Manta
I am 44 years old and my big interests in travelling is trekking, skiing and diving. Underwaterphotography is a special passion of mine.
After visiting Sapa, Vietnam, I have become interested in people photography. ...
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D MJ Binkley: "Great photographs are tough and underwater photos even more so. I'd like to nominate Manta for photographer of the week."
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Photo Of The Week Reply to this Thank you very much for your reward. It is great that you like the photo. The image was captured on a scuba dive at Tan-awan near Oslob on Cebu Island, Philippines. Here the local people feed the whalesharks from small boats. You can watch this from a boat, on snorkel or on scuba. The water is quite shallow at about 6 meters. The whaleshark takes a vertical position while feeding and since it almost touches the sand we can estimate the length at about 6 meters. We saw around 10 different whalesharks on the dive and it was a thrilling experience. Unfortunately whalesharks are endangered because of shark finning. Please spread the word, that nobody should support venues selling shark fin products.
Reply to this Stunning action, balance, colour & light...you can feel the danger!
Reply to this You have many outstanding photos! Excellent photography and we look forward to enjoying more of your photos.
Reply to this Congratulations Christian -- on both this and blogger of the week. Hope to see more photos and blogs soon.
On Shark Finning -- there is some momentum building
Shark Finning Petitions gives a growing number of petitions.
The only thing that would really fix the problem would be if China outlawed shark fin soup.
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In response to: Msg #166588 Hi Dave, thanks for your nice comment. Actually the whale sharks are not dangerous at all. They only eat plankton and small fish, but their size is very impressive.
Christian
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In response to: Msg #166595 hi Ali, thanks a lot. I hope China will outlaw sharkfin soup. To my knowledge they are looking into it. I have already signed many petitions against shark finning and manta finning and I think it actually does make a difference.
Cheers
Christian
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