Website: Restart to connect and protect

This is the official restart of our website to live up to a part of our life mission: Connect and protect to transform the world (About us).

The time is now

Two and a half years of absence are coming to an end today. The main reason for not being active on our website anymore was simply our internet connection. In general, there wasn’t a lot to catch on a remote island in Wakatobi (Indonesia) and secondly, we are regimented to a very small amount per week which doesn’t allow us to up or download anything basically. A holiday to the rescue!

New cameras

Another reason for inactivity is content-related. Yoeri’s camera stopped working after our time in Komodo (see the final clip on YouTube). The pictures of my old Pentax started to have annoying spots in multiple places and there was never any housing available, to begin with. Only a couple of months ago we finally treated ourselves to new camera equipment – and are totally excited to put it to good use in 2019 and beyond.

Website: Restart

We had our first dives on the House Reef and, of course, I created some postcards that are part of the bigger collection Warm regards.

Postcard Warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Underwater look-through with soft corals and fish looking onto reef top in sunlight. Text: See you on the other side.

Postcard Warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Underwater wide-angle shot in shallow water with natural light only. Silhouette of reef with hard coral and sun burst illuminating leather coral and purple tube sponge. Text: Grow.

Postcard Warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Underwater wide-angle shot with natural light only showing sponge in heart shape and school of red-tooth triggerfish. Text: Happy New Year.

Postcard Warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Underwater wide-angle picture in the shallows with natural light only. Sunburst coming through to illuminate small school of snappers with one red-tooth triggerfish in between. Text: Be yourself.

Postcard Warm regards from Devocean Pictures: Underwater photo wide-angle in the shallows with natural light only. Sunburst over leather coral. Text: Follow me.

New camera setup

Nicki’s new camera is an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II in a Nauticam housing. In the beginning, I didn’t have a strobe yet, so all pictures of this collection are taken with natural light only, and the LUMIX G Vario 14-42 with the wide-angle conversion port from Nauticam.

Connect and protect

Looking forward to new projects and adventures in 2019 (My long way to underwater photography). One of my New Year’s resolutions: Follow my passion – in and outside the water: Create, share, inform, and get active!