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25.11.2011  Andrey Nekrasov has sent us some images from ice diving in Lake Baikal in Siberia. Take a look at the images here  
04.09.2011  This summer lots of spurdogs visited the beaches just outside Stavanger. Rudolf was lucky to get in to the water with the sharks. Take a look at the images here.  
24.05.2011  This winter Rudolf had a trip to Polaria in Tromso North in Norway. He met a lot of arctic fishes he had never seen before and captured hundreds of images. Take a look at his images here.  
27.03.2011  October 2010 3 of UWPhotos photographers traveled East to capture images of what happened when some of the best anglers in Norway went after the large pikes that hides in the lake. They also made some night dives and met other freshwater creatures. Take a look at the images here.  
12.12.2010  One of UWPhotos photographers, Tormod Drengstig, got an image on second place in Biofotos competition and he also won this rounds competition. Read more about it here (sorry just in Norwegian).  
18.11.2010  This autumn I visited a river on the island Stord to try to capture images of the Atlantich salmon which gather in the river to spawn. With very good help from Joost Lommelaars, we managed to find some salmon and also capture images of the wild fishes. Unfortunately we found one escaped farmed salmon in the river. This fish was removed to prevent that it spawned together with the wild fishes. We also caught a wild fish and tagged it before it was released. All in all it was a great experience for me as a photographer and diver, and thanks to my local assistant, I learnt a lot about salmon and how they behave in a river. When you try photograph wild animals, local knowledge is one main key to success. Without the help of Joost, there would be no images. Thanks a lot Joost!Take a look at all the images here.  
12.11.2010  The most exiting with Norwegian fjords, is the short distance from the shoreline to great depths. This often results in fish and other creatures from greater depths are being observed by divers. Most often this happens during night time in the winter when the weather is cold and the water is dark. Two weeks ago Leif Bruntveit and Rudolf made a dive in a fjord close to Stavanger late on Wednesday evening. On that dive they met a greater argentine on just 20 meters depth. This beautiful shining fish with the large eyes thrive at depths between 100 and 1300 meters and it is most common from 200 to 600 meters. Despite that the two divers together have made more than 5000 dives in Norwegian waters, none of them had ever seen this fish alive. The greater argentine was photographed by the two divers before it got tired of the flashlight and disappeared into the deep. Take a look at the unique images here.  
10.11.2010  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer, Tormod Drengstig. Read about Tormod here and take a look at his images here and here.  
20.10.2010  This summer we have seen many reports that Bonito (Sarda sarda) has been caught along the Southern part of the Norwegian coast. Bonito is a fish that lives in warmer waters and it is seldom seen in Norway, but this summer lots of them has visited Norway. In July five specimen was caught in Ryfylke in a ring net. UWPhoto was lucky to photograph one of the fishes and also taste this rare fish. We can report that it tasted fantastic. Take a look at the images we captured here.  
17.08.2010  Rudolf has been swimming with some fierce dragons on the southwest coast of Norway. Read the story end take a look at some of the images at this link.  
08.06.2010  Read about Erling and Rudolfs experience with the sea slug Akera bullata here.  
21.05.2010  Rudolf spent 3 weeks last summer in Costa Rica. He captured images of Howler-Monkeys in the rain forest, American Crocodile in his garden and lots of other exciting animals. Take a look at Rudolfs images here.  
06.05.2010  Andey Nekrasov have been capturing stunning images of cleaner wrasses helping ou with the theet brushing among divers and also some new fantastic images of beluga whales. Take a look at Andreys images here.  
26.04.2010  Oyvind Svensen have made a short presentation of Norwegian freshwater fishes containing images from UWPHoto. Take a look at the film here.  
17.04.2010  Erling and Rudolf have been diving and capturing images of deep water corals on the steel legs of an offshore platform. Read more about the unique experience href="http://articles.uwphoto.no/articles_folder/Beautiful_and_rare_corals_on_old_offshore_installations.htm">here.  
16.03.2010  UWPhoto has got their own facebook group on the web. Take a look at the group and join us here  
06.02.2010  Last Autumn Rudolf spent one day with the hard working scallop farmers at Kvitsoy Edelskjell. He was trying to keep up with their divers celaning the scallop fences capturing images, and he also captured som images of Common Oyster bred in lantern nets. Take a look at the images from the sea farm here.  
31.01.2010  Erling has been lucky to get two of his images of a very rare sea slug displayed on the world known web page Sea Slug Forum. There are very few images of this sea slug and Erlings images brings new knowledge to how this tiny little creature lives and behave in its natural environment. Erling recalls how the images was captured: The image was captured in Paradice Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula. We dived down a steep wall of rocks which was full of marine life and I recognized Crustacean in many shapes and sizes. On 15 metres depth I spotted this sea slug and I captured a few images of it before I kept on with my dive. I did not know then that this little nudibranch was a very rare type. The water temperature was only 1 centigrade below the freezing point. The water was very clear and we could se the glacier hanging on the rock wall far above the water. Take a look at this rare sea slug and read about I on Sea Slug Forum.  
14.01.2010  Erling has just been signed on a ship which was doing research in the sea around Svalbard. He dived a lot but also captured some images of fishes they chaught when trawling on 200-300 metres deep.Take a look at the polar cod from the ice, threespot eelpout and other strange fishes which they got in the trawl here.  
13.12.2009  Rudolf spent some weeks last summer in Costa Rica. He brought his camera with him and captured some images of the native frogs in the Puntarenas area. Take a look at the images here.  
29.11.2009  Last winter Erling and Rudolf visited the middle of Norway capturing images from a sea farm with common mussels. Despite snow, cold water, poor visibility and very little light, they managed to bring home some images. Take a look at Rudolfs images here.  
08.11.2009  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer César A. Cárdenas . Read more about Cesar here and take a look at his images here.  
25.10.2009  In 2008 two new frog species was discovered on Finnoy on the South West coast of Norway. Rudolf has been on the island avnd captured images of the green amphibians. Take a look at Pool Frog og Edible Frog on UWPhotos web site.  
12.10.2009  Andey Nekrasov have been icediving and capturing stunning images from the White Sea and Barents Sea. Take a look at Andreys images of belugas and other nice stuff here.  
25.09.2009  This spring Rudolf and some friends visited two aquariums in Denmark. Take a look at the the images from AQUA Freshwater Aqvarium here. and Kattegatcentret here.  
20.09.2009  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer, Egil Skredemellom. Read about Egil here and take a look at his images here.  
11.03.2009  Late February the beach in front of Rudolfs house was visited by a young female grey seal. Rudolf went for a swim with here and you may see the images he captured during the time he spent in the water with this beautiful creature here.  
11.03.2009  One of UWPhotos photographers, Bjorn Einrem, had an artichle and some stunning images of eagles in the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad. Take a look at Bjorns images here and read more about Bjorn here.  
19.02.2009  Erling and Rudolf was in Cornwall last autumn capturing images of the marine life. Take a look at their images here and here.  
03.02.2009  UWPhoto congrats Thor E Håkonsen as a category winner in Nactus Award 2008. He captured the best image in the category animal behaviour. Read more about Nactus Award 2008 and see the stunning pictures here. You may also read more about Thor here.  
11.01.2009  UWPhoto has got their own facebook group on the web. Take a look at the group and join us here.  
10.12.2008  Erling, one of UWPhotos photographer and owner, won the Nordic Championship in Underwater Photography 2008! Congrat from the UWPhoto team! Read more about the championship here, and read about Erling here.  
18.09.2008  Erling has been on a trip to Antarctica. He has captured images of the marine life in these cold waters. Take a look of everything from icebergs to amphipods here.  
08.09.2008  UWPhoto congratulate Vidar whith his Norwegian Championship in underwater photo 2008. Read more about Vidar here and take a look at the images from the championship here.  
12.05.2008  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer Thor E. Haakonsen. Read more about Thor here and take a look at his images here.  
14.04.2008  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer Huko Lumi. Read more about Huko here and take a look at his images here.  
26.03.2008  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer, Helge Helland. Read more about Helge here  
29.01.2008  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer, Bjorn Einrem. Read about Bjorn here and take a look at his images here.  
23.01.2008  Rudolf has been in the Drengsrud Lake in Asker, capturing images of Norwegian Brown Bullhead. Take a look at his images here.  
24.11.2007  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer Andrey Nekrasov. Andrey brings exciting species as dugong and beluga in to our database. Read more about Andrey here og se bildene hans here.  
24.11.2007  UWPhoto has been very lucky to cooperate with bernard Picton selling is images through our database. Bernard has produced several books about marine life, and he is on of UK's most known specialist on this subject. Read more about Bernard here and take a look at his images here.  
10.11.2007  Robert A. Patzner has been at the Maldives, bringing home some nice images of the fishes there. Take a look at Roberts last images here.  
28.10.2007  Rudolf has been to Akumal Mexico. Swimming with fishes in the freshwater cenotes and bringing home some images. take a look at the images here.  
14.09.2007  This summer two of UWPhotos photographers have met the two largest fishes in the world. Florian Graner has been utside Cornwall in England and met the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus). See his images here. . Rudolf has been with his family to Cancun, Mexico where the whole family swam with the largest fish in the world, the Whale Shark. Take a look at his images here.  
04.06.2007  Erling has been to Greenland, bringing home unique images from the waters around the worlds largest island. Take a look at his images here.  
28.03.2007  Nils Aukan have been to Sulawesi. Take a look at his images from the trip here.  
09.12.2006  A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Erling Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway. It was 50-70 centimeters (19.5-27.5 inches) in diameter and looked like a huge beach ball. It was transparent but had a kind of thick, red cord in the middle. It was a bit science-fiction," Svensen told newspaper Bergens Tidende's web site. Take a look at the image here. And read what Norwegians largest newspaper, Aftenposten, writes about the case here.  
28.11.2006  During a diving trip in the Trondheimsfjord in September, I discovered this beautiful digging anemone during a night dive. It vas spotted on sandy bottom 6 metres below the surface in the strait Skarnsundet. I did understand that this was something special, but I did not know then, that this anemone never was registered in Norway. The anemone can grow to a length of 30 cm and have a diameter of 2,5 cm. It has 12 long arms which are very flexible. The centre disk is typical yellow/white and the arms have unique patterns. The anemone can quickly disappear into the sand when it becomes disturbed. Take a look at the images here. Erling Svensen  
28.09.2006  UWPhoto congratulate Vidar Skaalevik with the gold medal in the national Norwegian championship in underwater photographing 2006. You may read more about Vidar here and study his images from the competition here.  
12.05.2006  Erling has been diving in Chile for 3 months now. Here is a story about his trip and the link to some images he captured. Most of the diving was done in the fjords and South in Patagonia. Chile could be compared to Norway, regarding the diving, but when you start studying the biology, you will find great differences. The kelp and the cold water makes you feel at home, but it was quite easy to find new creatures to photograph. Never before had I brought my memory card to the surface loaded with so many new species, and never before had I captured more than 200 images on one single dive. To identify the animals was a different task. Very few of the animals which inhabit these waters, have been documented and gathered in a reference book. This made it very difficult to find the names of each single animal. Some of the animals have not been given a name, and it seems like they never will get one. The literature is just too bad, so there is a big job to do for marine biologists. The diving surprised me concerning the low number of different fishes that I saw. Two of the species occurred in a large number. One of these was one quite similar to our Norway Haddock. Total Chile has more than 1200 different species of fish, but to see them during a dive was very difficult. The fjord-diving was as simple as it is in Norway, and surprising. As Norway, Chile have narrow, deep fjords that makes it easy for deepwater life to ascend to diving depths. In the Comau fjord the solitaire cup-coral can be seen at only 10 meters dept, much shallower than it normally lives. And we captured big basket-stars in some localities very, very shallow. The fjords also inhabit big colonies of sea lions, and to see them under water was a new and very funny experience. Down at the southernmost part of South America, in the Strait of Magellan, only 50 kilometres from the most southern mainland, we dived in the big kelp forest. Here some of the fishes have “freezing liquid” in their blood, as the water temperature may fall below the freezing point of water. Prof. Bjoern Gulliksen – who I helped in his field work – was very happy when we saw the world longest ascidians colony. It may grow up to 7 meter long. The pictures that you now can take a look at, are all given a name, at least a family name. At my PC, I have pictures of many species not given any name. Bjoern is still working in Chile with the pictures, trying to classify them. In the future, more pictures may be added. Take a look at Erlings images here.  
14.02.2006  UWPhoto has made some images from the streams on Great Barrier Island available on the web. Take a look at the images here.  
29.01.2006  UWPhoto welcomes our new photographer, Odd Harald Hansen. Read about Odd Harald here  
25.01.2006  UWPhoto has added images of New Zealand Fur Seal to their database. Take a look at the images here.  


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