Michel Braunstein Underwater Photography

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Hello, thank you for visiting my website.

My passion for the sea was born prior to my 10th birthday as I was watching Jacques Cousteau’s movies. Just about 10 years later, I started diving and taking underwater pictures with a rented Sea and Sea camera. I have never stopped taking underwater pictures since then.

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For one of my birthdays, I got a Nikonos V underwater camera. A heck of a birthday present! This was probably the gift I’ve appreciated the most in my whole life.

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Today and since the beginning of the digital revolution, I'm shooting with housed DSLR camera.

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As electronics end studies project/thesis, I have developed in 1990-91 a diving computer with optical connection to a PC. That happened before the first diving computer model including a PC connection, was launched on the market (by Suunto).

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After hundreds of dives in the dark and cold lakes of my Belgian homeland, I decided to move to Israel to be closer to my beloved Red Sea.

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Since then, I had the chance to dive seas. oceans, rivers, lakes... all over the globe.

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I love to shoot wildlife underwater, but I love to shoot human models as well.

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Over the water, I love to shoot my travels and also music concerts, jazz, street photography...

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My underwater photos and articles are published in magazines all over the world: Idive (IL), Diver Magazine (CND), Scuba Diver/Sport Diver (US), Unterwasser (GE), Let's Dive Mag (SP), Underwater Photography Mag (UK), Subaqua (FR), Marine Diving Mag (JP), X-Ray Mag (DK)