Sinking SS Murphy

Scubazoo's behavioral video playlist

Scubazoo has a behavioral playlist on their YouTube site:

Test Video with HVX200

Guillame Nery's amazing BASE jumping free dive video

This is quite simply amazing!



Please watch with an open mind-it is a delight and testament to the videographers art, rather than a factual piece!

Mike Elliot's Escape video

The Maldives (shot by Howard Hall on a RED camera!)

Howard Hall shooting RED in the Cocos

Cocos 2010 from Howard Hall on Vimeo.

Amazing sail fish video

Simply amazing footage of sailfish hunting a school of sardines from Howard Hall. Filmed at Isla Mujeres, Mexico in February this year.

Sailfish Drama from Howard Hall on Vimeo.

Underwater video of Capernwray Aeroplane-straight after sinking!

This is a rough cut of actual footage of G-BVOV underwater at Capernwray. It was shot on Monday 29th March 2010. The crane strops are still in place, and in actual fact, it was still being lowered onto the bottom of the quarry!

Some of this footage was used by Grenada and BBC North West on their evening bulletins.

Capernwray Diving sinks an aeroplane! from Adam Hanlon on Vimeo.

Eric Cheng's show reel of Sperm Whales in Dominica

Fergus Kennedy's Red Sea video

A great piece of video, made all the more remarkable by the fact that some of it was shot using a Canon 5D MkII digital SLR. Apart from showing the skill of the film maker, it also shows how far along these cameras have come in terms of video output.

I wish Nikon would get their offerings sorted out to compete!

Under the Red Sea from Fergus Kennedy on Vimeo.

Amazing footage of a Leopard Seal

Check out this short video interview of Paul Nicklen, who describes a four-day encounter with a large leopard seal in Antarctica. A leopard seal befriends Paul and presents penguins to him, presumably trying to feed what it thinks is a truly incompetent predator. The story is an incredible one—truly the once-in-a-lifetime encounter that every serious wildlife photographer hopes to have one day.

My video on BBC

I am quite ridiculously proud of the fact that BBC news and News 24 used some stock segments of underwater video that I had shot at Capernwray last Wednesday. They used them to illustrate a section on the impact of the banking crisis on small business! Thye sprung the request on me on Tuesday, and I had to let them have some footage that I keep here for illustrating some points on our PADI Open Water course. Given that the clips were not my best work, I was pleased that they got used, and they did actually look really good on the broadcast.

Rightly or wrongly, seeing my footage on a national broadcast has really made me very chuffed!

Friends Found - Sharks of Tiger Beach Bahamas

Check this out! Beautiful film of amazing animals:

Earth-touch.com

Another amazing source for wildlife/nature video is earth touchAlso primarly South African based-enter Sardine Run into their search engine!

More Sardine Run footage

More amazing footage of the Sardine Run off South Africa's east coast.



Shot by Stuart IrelandThis won the award for short video at the Antibes film festival in 2006. By all accounts, the run in 2008 was even more spectacular!

BBC Nature's great events-SA sardine run footage

Check out this promo video clip for the forthcoming BBC program
Natures Great Events


Absolutely amazing! Can't wait for the program and for next June when we will be there!

Magic filters DVD

I recently ordered a copy of Alex Mustard and Peter Rowlands Shooting Magic DVD. I have been using magic filters (http://www.magic-filters.com/)in blue and green water for some time. This is an example of a green water shot:
 
What is amazing is that the combination of filter and high ISO/slow shutter has meant that it actually shows more  detail than I could  actually see through the viewfinder! I've had a similar experience using a green water filter on my video camera. The blue water filter brings out the fantastic coulours on the reef. This was shot using a blue water magic in the Red Sea:
 
Anyway, the DVD arrived and it is amazing how much more it gives! The practical advice on all sorts of things-even just getting the Anthias to point in the right direction(!) is great. You can order it from magic filters at http://www.magic-filters.com/