Every time I put on a diving suit to the bottom of the water, it is a new life experience

Author:Shanghai Wenlian Time:2022.08.10

Now photography has become a part of the lives of the public. From the bustling city to the famous mountains and rivers, from the boundless sky to the blue ocean, everyone can always explore their own photography world.

What is the underwater world in the camera? Let's listen to the sharing of diving photographer Zhu Koting.

When I was a child, my father had begun to record my growth with a camera. The concept of recording life and pursuit of goodness with the camera has deeply affected me. On my growth path, seagulls, Olympus, and Canon have entered my life one after another, and I also used them to try to record the ignorant world in my eyes. In the summer of 2003, before I went abroad to study, my family gave a Canon 10D. This is my first digital SLR. It opened my real photography road.

I started studying diving in 2004 and was a relatively earlier amateur diver in China. Around 2010, I started to record the scene I saw in the water and share it with my friends around me. As soon as I was in contact with underwater photography, I found that this was very challenging. At that time, only a few photographers in China were practicing underwater photography, nor did they engage in teaching in this regard. One of his own love, go to an underwater photographer abroad to learn about the basic knowledge of underwater photography, and to study underwater photography equipment. At the same time, more importantly, to observe the habits of underwater biology, rather than learning the technology of photography, it is better to learn marine biological knowledge.

Before I participated in the senior training classes of Shanghai Youth Photography Talent, I studied and studied and had not been trained by systematic. Therefore, this training class was a baptism of comprehensive photography knowledge for me. My classmates around me are my teacher. I have given me a chance to make a comprehensive improvement at multiple levels and dimensions at multiple levels and dimensions of photography theory, photography technology, and photography culture. Under the guidance of the teacher, we combined with urban renewal and ecological environmental protection to create our own works, introduced more thinking, so that I have more understanding of what good photography works are, and the goals that young photographers strive to pursue With a new direction.

I started diving because of loved the sea. For more than ten years, I have formed an inexplicable bond with the beautiful ocean and mysterious underwater world. One of the most amazing parts of each diving is the moment when the seawater swallowed me half of my mirror. The sea level is a transition part from one world to another, and is a link between the water world and land.

Each photo is memories. When I looked at the works I shot, those scenes at the time of shooting appeared in front of me like a high -definition documentary, recording a scene, leaving some memories, and sharing many stories. This is also the meaning of photography.

My impression of a deep experience was a blue whale that had been broken in the southeast of Sri Lanka. The 18 -meter -long blue whale corpse floated on the sea about 12 miles from the shore. At that time, I was extremely shocking. It was the first time I saw the blue whale in my life, but it was a blue that had died because of human damage. whale. Her body was swollen quickly, her skin began to fall off, and groups of catfish swimming around. Even worse, the tail of the blue whale, because it was cut by the giant propeller of the ocean tanker, it was almost completely cut off from the body. Visitors on the whale watching ship and the boat around the blue whale recorded this incredible sad scene.

You know, the blue whale is the largest creature in the world, but it is very shy in nature. With a little sound, it will disappear in the blue sea. Only when she felt very safe, would she slowly cruise in the shallow water, and I had the opportunity to feel that she crushed the trains like a row. I seized this only one opportunity and took the front "portrait photo" of the blue whale.

Lamalla, a remote village living in a corner of the earth, is one of the few primitive villages in the world that can also be legal whaling. This village retains a lot of original customs. For example, no currency circulation is used, and all the whaling boats are handed in hand. The hull and fish fork are handmade. There will be a whaling person in each whaling boat. Not everyone can serve, and they must grow from strict training from a young age to grow into the "hero" selected in the village in order to get such an award.

I went to the village that I went to about 10 years ago, and I chose a season for whaling, where I stayed for about ten days. A whale in the village was not caught -because the number of whales was getting less and less. I was glad that the fate of the whale had escaped the death, and I was worried about the villagers who could not capture the food that could not capture the belly.

It is also a special experience to shoot the underwater Mori (Easter Island Stone Statue) under the Easter Island, because most of the statues of Mori Stone stand on the island for thousands of years. In the process, the storm was sinking on the bottom of the deep sea, and this is not a scene that tourists can usually see.

Witnessing the wonders of the natural world of "Salian Storm" will also be unforgettable. Every August, in the Port of Saint John in South Africa, millions of sardines migrate north along the South African coastline, where they were prefeted by dolphins and ruthlessly hunted by ponds. The dolphin gathered the sardines, and then opened his mouth to devour the prey. The sardines tried to escape the predation of dolphins and swim near the water surface, but were violently attacked by the pond and geese, vividly showing the weak meat and strong food in the marine biological chain.

Even if you have made a detailed plan, sufficient preparation, and after experiencing difficulties, you often encounter something that you have not seen, and this is natural. We are not only photography, but also getting along with nature, feeling the charm and magic of real nature. Even today, if I let me summarize how I can take good photos, I still don't know ... I just took what I really like, because this passion will be shown from the work.

Every time I put on a diving suit to the bottom of the water, it is a brand new life experience. Each corner of the world has its unique side, and it also survives a unique biological community. The creatures that dive to the bottom of the water and living here are talked with an equal attitude, using images to express their love for the underwater world, and share the joy, sadness, surprise, fear I experienced on the bottom of the water ...

Photography is a way I use the camera to record the image to share with you the way of knowing the world. I also hope that it can attract you to enter a different world from a photo. Wake up your love for nature and the protection of the environment through the image and the protection of the environment. Essence