The most beautiful underwater photos in the Netherlands come from Geertruidenberg
René Weterings from Geertruidenberg shows that you don’t go abroad for special fish. He won the Dutch underwater photography championship with photos of the underwater life in Zeeland. For the four healthy photos he received one gold and three silver. The master photographer proudly explains how he took the photos.
Calm lobster (silver)
“I photographed the lobster that looks into the camera with its two beady eyes in Lake Grevelingen at a depth of about five and six metres. It’s dark there, so you have to get started with extra flash units. Fortunately, it stayed still. I was able to so stick with it to shoot it in the perfect position and get the light right. It took me over thirty minutes to get this one shot.”
The cauliflower jellyfish (silver)
“This special jellyfish is also called a sea mushroom and is the largest jellyfish in the Netherlands. It can grow up to sixty centimeters in size. I happened to swim past here on the competition day. Beautiful, isn’t it? That sun in the distance and that graceful attitude of the jellyfish .”
The weed landscape (silver)
“For this photo I don’t think deep into the Grevelingenmeer. At less than a meter depth, maybe even half a meter – where you could simply snorkel – I took this photo. I came across this and I thought, this is well typical diving or snorkeling in Zeeland, with the sun falling beautifully into the water and the fish in the background.”
Fish Portrait (Gold)
“I found this special fish at a depth of eight meters in the Oosterschelde this summer: the Horned Mucus. It lives in oyster shells and stays in the same place. That way I knew where to find it on the competition day. So I could take pictures just as long until I got the right picture.”
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