Entries with photos land & underwater

This category brings together all blog entries featuring photos taken either on land or underwater. Sometimes it is a mix of both. Some blog posts focus more on the stories behind and around while others are mainly photo galleries. Dive into different areas, themes, and styles. Photography is what you make of it!

Underwater close-up (crop) of the eye of an devil scorpionfish (Wakatobi, Indonesia) showing how the camouflage continues of this ambush predator continues into the eye.

Let’s talk scientifically! Pictures and marine ID

Over the last weeks, we posted pictures with scientific explanations on classifications of marine life on Instagram and Facebook. As not everybody is (regularly) on social media, I am happily putting it all together in one post now: Let’s talk scientific! Let’s talk scientific! Tiger cowrie When looking only at the […]

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The group of volunteers of Trash Hero Amed spreads out along the beach to clean up plastic Nicki with rice bag in hand on the right side. IN the back houses, trees, the sea and a clouded sky.

Keep your plastic and clean up the rest

Plastic is on our minds. Every high tide leaves behind a line of plastic on the beach of Amed. Every heavy rain shower washes half-burned or openly collected rubbish from the settlements and streets into fields and streams, distributed by the wind, animals and more rain, eventually, most of it […]

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An elegant squat lobster (dark with white to yellow stripes), Allogalathea elegans, is balancing of the arm of a crinoid (also known as feather stars) to catch food in Amed, Bali.

Muck diving: Schätze im Schlamm und Müll

Spielen im Schlamm ruft bei mir nicht nur freudige Kindheitserinnerungen wach, sondern wird mit mit „muck diving” gerade glücklich gelebt. Während die balinesischen Kinder lachend und kreischend in den riesigen Pfützen neben und auf der Straße herum planschen, legen wir dafür jedoch unsere Tauchausrüstung an, um nach Schätzen im Schlamm […]

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Postcard with warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Möhne See / Lake in Germany, summer 2015. The lake is smooth as glass, clouded sky and a pier with paddleboats in red and blue and 5 green dragons and one white swan waiting peacefully.

Pictures as cards: Thoughts, quotes and affirmations

The collection „Warm regards“ keeps on growing and is featuring pictures that have been turned into cards (greeting cards, postcards or whatever else you’d like to call them) featuring my own words and thoughts as well as quotes and affirmations to inspire and reinforce positive thinking. Pictures as cards I: […]

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Blick von unserer Verana in Amed auf Bali (Indonesien) über die Gartenmauer, auf der ein Hahn steht in den Sonneaufgang über dem Meer. Haustemel und Bäume bilden Silhoutten gegen den Himmel.

Im Rhythmus der Tropen

Dem frühen Vogel seien alle seine Würmer in der Morgenstund gegönnt, direkt nach dem Aufstehen ist mir weder nach Essen noch Goldsuche zumute. Morgens brauche ich meine Ruhe, um gut in den Tag zu starten. Dabei war mir die tatsächliche Uhrzeit lange Zeit ziemlich schnuppe. Wenn der Morgen graut Der […]

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Underwater macro shot of Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) in Amed (Bali, Indonesia): brown body with white to bege stripes. Only the head with the eyes sticking out high and the small horns protrude from each eyes being washed to the left by the current. The head is laying in the sand and only one arm is out of the hole in the brown sand floor.

Die Magie des Oktopus und die Faszination Manta

Ich liebe das Meer und all seine Bewohner. In diesem Sinne versuche ich jeden Tauchgang unvoreingenommen zu beginnen, mich einfach auf das zu freuen, was wohl kommen mag, um mit offenen Augen auch die Schönheit und das fotografische Potential der vermeintlich gängigen Unterwasserlebewesen wertzuschätzen. Doch natürlich gibt es Kandidaten, die […]

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