My first tests go back to 1992 with a disposable waterproof to 5 meters, without flash. In 1994, on the wreck of the Saint Dominic  In Marseilles, I tried my first film shots with a disposable camera equipped with a flash that was enclosed in a plastic box given to withstand a depth of 30 meters .. But my results were not very convincing, to put it mildly. something else...

Things got more serious in 1995 in Corsica, just 20 years ago ... At the time I was doing an internship in aquaculture as part of my studies and I needed to take pictures for my report. I would get some cool results in natural light using backlighting at  among cages filled with wolves and gilthead sea bream. A few weeks later in Ibiza, I would do other tests by swimming behind the bothus in the sand ... a successful lunar atmosphere given the means at hand limiting my creativity!

In 1996, stung by the virus, I came back in force: my first NIMAR brand box bought from the "old diver" that I tinkered with to adapt my first box bought  with my savings: a nikon F70. I use an SB 103 flash that I hold in my hand (no plate). I take pretty pictures in Lake Annecy (schools of perch, pike, crayfish)  and also in Ibiza (moray eels, amberjack, ect)

In 2000, Camilla, my first companion, amazed by my results obtained with my DIY housing, bought me a SUBAL procase housing fully equipped with the nikon F5. Then starts a crazy project: to create a photo library of the underwater flora and fauna of Ibiza.

In 2002 I participated in my first and only photo competition to date: www.underwaterphotography.com  

I won a gold medal in macro swimming subject and a silver medal in the atmosphere category without flash.

Very encouraging results for a self-taught person, having only had a few tips from Marc Debatty during a stay at the club where I worked. But in  2003, following the death of my partner Camilla, I put the photography aside ...

In 2007, while I was a supervisor at the IBIZA-DIVING club, I met Sylvie who had come to dive with her Amiénois club le Léo. My new companion will trigger at home the resumption of the photo smoothly with the purchase of a LUMIX FX-01 and its housing. During our first romantic vacation in Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz), I made superb underwater photos with this little digital camera.

The next year  Travel to the Red Sea with Sylvie and the Leo club, a cruise that will take us from the wreck of the Thislegorm to the garden of Raz Mohammed in the south of Sinai.

In  2011: Purchase of the D700, for me I find the F5 but digitally, I enjoy terrestrial photography and more particularly by photographing my 3 sirens ...

For financial reasons I would have to wait until 2012 to buy the used SUBAL ND700 housing from Gérard Ghini on the Aquamonde stand at the Paris diving fair.

Since then I have been photographing in the Maldives, Ibiza, Cap de Créus, Port Cros ...

In 2014, two of my photos were published on the DORIS website of the FFESSM and I made my first photo exhibition at the Albert animal festival (80).

The future is ours! ...

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My achievements:

2002  www.underwaterphotography.com  

     gold medal category "Macro- swimming subject"

     silver medal "natural light atmosphere" category

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2016 Thau Pond Trophy

     Third place + jury prize "animal gaze"

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      Blue lake photographic meeting trophy

      Fourth place + jury prize "animal gaze"

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      CNAV imagesub competition

      Theme red: fifth place

      Theme graphics: fifth place