Biography  Johannes was born in Cologne, Germany, on 16/12/1965 and spent five years at a boarding school in England where he started with photography as a main hobby. Since the age of sixteen Johannes has been living in Israel, doing regular military service, and completed a B.A. in English Literature at Bar Ilan University. Johannes started diving in 1997, and immediately took up underwater photography. Johannes started off with a Nikonos V, which still serves him well today. Johannes has not yet made the plunge into the digital camera realm, and still relies on a Nikon F5 in a recently acquired Seacam housing. Johannes soon realized that good underwater photography demands good diving skills and so did the Divemaster course. Recently Johannes completed the E.R. technical diving course. Johannes believes combining the equipment intensive activity of technical diving with underwater photography is still a challenge. Johannes personal preferences remain in the photography of marine life, and wrecks. Johannes welcomes any enterprise that promotes the conservation of endangered marine life as a priority goal. In this aspect Johannes finds the efforts of protecting sharks, and particularly the Great White, especially important because their reputation rests so heavily on prejudices and misconceptions. |