Pretty stoked being part of this collection and massive book of accomplished German photographers: http://www.blickfang-dbf.de/archive/portfolio/andy-fox

Feeling happy being featured and interviewed by British photo magazine “DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER” about my work. Thanks loads to Philippa Grafton and her team!

Assigned by the swiss crew creating Switzerland’s first surf movie called “IWANNASURF” I was traveling together with an awesome bunch of surfers to the southern islands of the Maldives. Please find the story in the latest issue of ‘Golden Ride‘ – magazine

Embedded in the lush, pine-tree, surf-camp scenery of the Feral Surf Tours, located at Le Pin Sec, France, we were able to capture some sporty, lifestyle and water shots at different locations. Please find a tight selection here and the wider range at my portfolio

Contribution of an underwater photograph of German olympic swimmer Marco di Carli in Men’s Health magazine.

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'

Underwater photo shooting with artist Heidi at the pristine Fuschlsee, Austria:

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I was seeking quite desperately places and locations for crystal clear water at the Salzburger and upper-austrian lake region since quite a long time.

Locals’ mouths were sealed…not too awkward as I know this from surfing (which is alright to protect the beauty) and so I had to ‚discover’ the banks and water quality of the lakes all by myself. Words of some friends told that I should try this or that lake but finally we got stuck at Fuschlsee. On first sight the water looked pretty clear and the underwater visibilty should be alright. After renting a little red oldschool vintage electro boat at Fuschlsee which reminded me of those 60ies films with a lot of cheesy dialogues where couples were floating out to the lake to spend some romantic hours….we started off to our location check by sea.

'Frogman' and 'Sissy'

We found some pristine, clear banks with stunning rotten roots and climbers at this famous lake close to Salzburg. Unfortunately the underwater scenery was hidden by murky slimey underground which was whirled up every time we touched the ground.

Underwater model Heidi threw herself in a green showy dress. Some funny accessoires spiced up the artistic situation: an artichoke flower! which contrasted perfectly to the outfit and greenish underwater scenery. Our ‘Cynara’ under water photo project was born.