While I was taking photos in Lake Morat in Switzerland, I noticed a great crested grebe diving regularly right behind me near an old beaver lodge. The fish had discovered it as a hiding place—but of course, that hadn’t escaped the grebe’s notice either.
Jeudi prochain, le 21 mai, je présenterai à Montreux la conférence « De l'Amazonie au Léman – le fabuleux voyage d'un photographe dans les eaux du Léman et de la planète », informations sur https://t.co/DtpdbNzTsY
There’s still snow in the mountains, but in small ponds, the frogs are celebrating the festival of love in an incredible spectacle, as if there were no tomorrow. Filmed yesterday in the Swiss Fribourg Alps.
For two years, I photographed beneath the surface of Lake Geneva. Thirty-six large-format images are now on display in an open-air exhibition at the legendary Bains des Pâquis, in the heart of Geneva, against the backdrop of the Jet d'Eau.
This is what a truly wild river looks like! Photographed yesterday in the Swiss Alps, in Gruyères (where they make the delicious cheese). No dams, no power stations, no pesticides. And so the river is teeming with insects and trout, just as it once was in all Alpine rivers.
A brown trout hibernates in a pool of a mountain stream in the Gruyère Alps in Switzerland. It lies calmly beneath the roaring waters, barely moving and only very rarely feeding on drifting insect larvae. Here it is safe from hunting mergansers and cormorants.
No, this is not a snowstorm in the Alps. This is an underwater photograph taken in Lake Thun in the Swiss Alps. But at a depth of 80 meters. What looks like snow is actually almost white mud, and what looks like snowflakes is plankton in the light of the lamps.
These days in the Swiss Sarine river, it is the spawning season for Brown trout: two large males are fighting for a place at the lady's side. After more than 40 years of underwater photography, this is my first really good picture of Brown trout. Perseverance pays off eventually.
Would you like to purchase a print of one of my photos and support the ILCP's “Prints for the Planet” campaign? As a Senior Fellow of the iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers), this is a cause that is particularly close to my heart.
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A report on Swiss television TSR about the situation of perch in Lake Geneva, featuring my underwater footage of huge schools of perch:
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Nächsten Donnerstag 18. September halte ich in Münsingen den Vortrag «Vom Amazonas an die Aare». Mit Bildern und Geschichten von Krokodilen und Bären, versunkenen Regenwäldern und abgrundtiefen Höhlen. Aber auch von neuesten Arbeiten aus der Schweiz.
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