UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY - Code of good practice. Most underwater photographers are concerned to protect the environment in which they take their pictures and to avoid stressing marine creatures when they are taking their images. This is good for the marine environment and leads to better photographs. Download Code of Conduct This Code sets out good practices for anyone who aspires to take pictures or video underwater. Many aspects are also applicable to the general sports diver. No-one should attempt to take pictures underwater until they are a competent diver. Novices thrashing about with their hands and fins while conscious only of the image in their viewfinder can do untold damage. Every diver, including photographers, should ensure that gauges, octopus regulators, torches and other equipment are secured so they do not trail over reefs or cause other damage. Underwater photographers should possess superior precision buoyancy control skills to avoid damaging the fragile marine environment and its creatures.
Nudibranch, Sea slug and Flatworm. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart. By Maria Popova How photographers do long-distance relationships. When best friends Stephanie and Mav had to move apart, the fruits of telecommunication weren’t enough of a bond for them. Instead, the two artists launched 3191 — a photoblog named after the exact distance between their homes. Every morning for a year each of them posted a photo of herself and some other environmental element of her morning, then posted the pictures side by side for a parallel universe in a shared moment.
So wonderful was the concept and so artful the photographs, that Stephanie and Mav eventually got a book deal and A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart was born — a worthy addition to our running list of blog-turned-book success stories. There’s something incredibly poetic about this exercise in remote togetherness that both uses the connectivity of the digital age and defies its traditional communication platforms. In 2010, we spent more than 4,500 hours bringing you Brain Pickings. Share on Tumblr. Kitsune Soba (Vegan) 1 thing that kept on happening since I started this blog: requests for vegan recipes.. I knew this would be a challenge… a world without Toro, Mcdonald’s chicken nuggets, caviar..or dry aged sirloin (cooked medium rare) would be a very depressing one for me! I had to look up “vegan” on wikipedia because I didn’t even know what the rules were. I learned that you can’t even use fish broth..jesus…. But! I do think summertime is the perfect time to be vegan. Contrary to my previous post featuring a nauseating but delicious combination of foie gras and caviar, this recipe is very light, vegan, and perfect for summer.
I took inspiration from cold soba noodles that are served with dipping sauce (Soba Tsuyu), but I added vegetables and fried tofu. There are many brands of soba noodles, some packaged as dry noodles and some packaged as fresh noodles. Thinly slice some roasted red peppers, scallions, cucumbers, and kimchi. Run the cucumbers through a mandolin. in case someone was going to ask. LOVE by ~xtinykissxx on deviantART. The Mansurovs. Smile Because it Happened.