I’m very flattered for receiving…

… a gold medal in the 2011 PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS photo award in the category „PROFESSIONAL / Advertising / Catalogues” with my photo series “Submerged” consisting of 3 underwater images.  More than 4.000 entries were submitted.

Here comes the official press release: PX3_WINNERS-PRESSRELEASE

There will be a book published in early 2012 with all the winning works.

So stoked for receiving a gold medal in the 2011 TRIERENBERG SPECIAL THEMES CIRCUIT photo award in the category „SPORT, DYNAMICS & MOVEMENT“, http://www.supercircuit.at/results2011.cfm with one of my LIQUID MAYHEM underwater images (http://web49.server2.bf-easy-webhosting.de/publish/html/index.html#portfolio?category=0&series=3&photo=0)

The price ceremony will go down in Salzburg at the convention center of the ‘Salzburger Nachrichten’ in the evening of 27th september 2011: http://www.salzburg.com/online/service/sn+saal

Publication of a 7-page underwater portfolio with a “behind-the-scenes story of a surf/water photographer”  in the german underwater magazine ‘UNTERWASSER’ (http://www.unterwasser.de):

Publication of an underwater photo portrait of BILLABONG XXL Biggest Wave Award winner Sebastian Steudtner in the June issue of the german business newspaper ‘WELT KOMPAKT’:

Underwater photo portrait of Billabong XXL award winner Sebastian Steudtner

We’re still waiting for a decent groundswell hitting the Goldcoast shorelines. In the meantime we were eager shooting in fun waves, visiting conspirative meetings or being guided by the omnipresent ‘Darth Vader’, the radiator mascot of our rotten ‘Mitsubishi Magna Safari’.

Prosurfer Dale Lovelock bustin' fins out at South Straddie

Prosurfer Yoyo Terhorst funsurfin' at Palm Beach

Darth Vader leading the way to the waves

The Palm Beach Boardriders Club treasurer holding onto his suitcase full of ...

Tilo clearing the 'white telephone'