Last week took place the 35th Festival de l’Image sous-marine in Antibes, southern France. This was a great opportunity to get away from the freezing temperatures around here in Luxembourg and to drive south 1000km.

Festival mondial de l'image sous-marine

I had also organised to meet an online buddy from Digidiver.net there, Thomas Vignaud aka Autopsea. It’s always interesting and funny to meet people you only know from the net for real. Concerning Thomas it was a great day to meet as he won the first prize in the photo competition as well as the prize of young photographer with his great turtle shot.

the winning shot!

I believe he needs some time to completely realise what happened to him. And this is only the beginning, I’m sure!

Thomas with his "Oscar"

The day after you could even find his turtle on the front page of the newspapers.

interesting reading

You can check out more of Thomas’ beautiful work on his flickr account and find him as well as moderator on www.digidiver.net

I was very surprised (first of all) and happy (of course) to find out that one of my pictures was chosen in the Daily Dozen from the Nation Geographic Magazine on February 21.

I’ m very happy to have one of my photos on the 3rd place in this competition. Congratulation as well to Patrick who brought in a great turtle shot. I hope you like it

Sometimes you just don’t need the big thing, small gems can light up your day. This was the case yesterday for me, when I got a mail notification for this
I love photography, and  realising that other people appreciate my work , WOW.