Underwater - Computer Desktop Wallpapers

Working in front of the PC is hard enough. - How about bringing some underwater magic to your daily work life?  

Download the underwater wallpaper in your resolution from my website at: link

Film Photography - Still on the move

"In a world where everyone wants the most advanced technology, and images are dismissed as quickly as they are created, there is a growing subculture of photographers that have turned back to a more traditional method of image capture... film."

Squadron of Hope - Raja Ampat

A short video by Nu Parnupong documenting the richness of reef life around Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Black and White - Window Photography

Some Fresh Air - Florian Kolbe (500px)

Rain is fascinating - Lorenzo Murelli (500px)

Leave everything behind - Leonie Bonekamp (500px)

View Through Bevelled Glass - Kevin Pashuk (500px)

Vintage Stairs - Vasyl Chronyy (500px)

Underwater Macro Photography in Cabilao, Philippines

Recently I spent a couple of days on Cabilao island in the Philippines.
I was diving with Sea Explorers who has a very good infrastructure to serve the needs of underwater photographers.

Cabilao is located at the west side of Bohol island facing Cebu island. The reefs around Cabilao are rich in coral growth and macro life. But, accidentally you can also spot bigger marine wildlife such as mobula rays, eagle rays, turtles, or sharks.

The dive sites around the island offer lots of opportunities.

And there are several places to see for example several species of pigmy sea horses (hippocampus bargibanti in different colors, hippocampus denise).

Currents are quite predictable in the area so that dive guides can very well adapt to skill of divers, or whites and interest of their guests.


There can be found some very rare to spot species too.

The pigmy sea dragon, or pigmy pipe horse on the right is only one of them.

This is a species incredibly difficult to photograph.
It is very small. The sea dragon shown here was not longer than 5 mm and constantly moving.

This one was living in a coral hidden in a little cave where it was hard to position camera and strobes.
The hardest part is actually finding the subject in the view finder of the camera, or if you are using a compact camera on the display.

Another one is the harlequin shrimp. Almost impossible to be successful with this one if dive guides do not have a spot where they know that it is staying.

This one was feeding on star fish and living quite local.

Also here, the photographic challenge was to get the right point of view and correct positioning of the light without destroying the reef.


Taking macro pictures under water needs patience, good diving (buoyancy) skills, a buddy assisting, and most important diving in a very small group. There is nothing more annoying than photographers queuing behind subjects and stressing each other to get equal exposure to opportunities.

More images can be found at my website at www.andreasrmueller.com

New Software Promises to Take the Grunt Work Out of Ranking Your Images

New Software Promises to Take the Grunt Work Out of Ranking Your Images: Powered by artificial intelligence, Picturesqe organizes your images automatically and tells you which ones look the best. Welcome to the future.

Finding great photo locations

Ever struggled finding a great photo location?

Today finding inspiring photo locations is easy. Internet offers an endless resource of hints, tips, and examples.

While in big cities obviously good photo locations can be found by just screening travel guides the more special photo locations can rather be found in blogs or image repositories in the internet.

I recently visited Tokyo. And picking two to three touristic hot spots already gave me a series of very good and interesting locations. - See my gallery at: link

A great resource of photography ideas and inspiration when visiting Toky is the shoottokyo.com blog by Dave Powell.
The page offers a blog, an inspiring portfolio, a book, and many more.

Explore just one example, which is Dave's blog post about "Analog Sunday", a series of Hasselblad 501 cm images on film: link

Or in preparation of your next Tokyo trip. The post about "Shooting Tokyo". A series of inspirational images opening your eyes for the unusual.