Tony Karacsonyi is a professional marine photographer who has been recognised globally for his exciting images. Marine photography has taken Tony to some of the world’s great places such as Papua New Guinea’s: Siassi, Trobriand and D’Entrecasteaux Islands,Tonga, Great Barrier Reef, Sabah, Ningaloo Reefs and Australia’s Coral Sea. In 1998, he was awarded with the prestigious Australian Geographic “Photographer of the Year“, for photography on giant cuttlefish and won several international awards, including a ‘runner up’ position in the “Wildlife Photographer of The Year” award in London, during 1996, 1997, 1998.
“The winch, synchronized with the flensers knife, accelerates, and the bada
~ (the Norwegian word for baleen) with a wrenching tear, parts from the whale
and swings wildly up into the air and outboard over the ship’s side, just
grazing the bulwarks. During the half-second when it is outboard the winchman
lets go his brake, and the lethal mass, which would smash to pulp anyone or
anything in it’s way, plunges down toward the sea ~ usually! I’ve seen
maybe five or six men killed by the bada alone’, Davison told me.....”
—from ‘Of Whales and Men’
There’s romance in the old whaling d... (more)
YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports:
It was just another day’s diving in paradise for Dietmar Amon of
Lissenung Island, except today he had a diver named Gadi, who wanted to see
big sharks. “I’ll take you to see the silvertips at Silvertip
Reef” said Dietmar.
They were soon diving with six sleek and graceful silvertip whalers, two to
thre... (more)
“Another feature of these isles is their emphatic uninhabitableness. It
is deemed fit for ... the jackel itself; ... but the encantadas refuse to
harbour even the outcasts of the beasts. Man and wolf alike disown them.
Little but reptile life is here found; tortoises, lizards, ... and that
strangest anomaly of outlandish nature, the iguano. No voice, no lo, no howl
is heard; the ch... (more)
Seldom visited by scuba divers, are the remote D’Entrecasteaux Islands
and Trobriand Islands, off the North-East tip of Papua New Guinea. These
islands and the Melanesian people who live there are wild!
Rising up to 4,000 metres from the ocean, the D’Entrecasteaux Islands
include Goodenough, Fergusson, Dobu and Normanby. Each group has it’s
own charm and the islands look... (more)
Tony Karacsonyi is a professional marine photographer who has been recognised globally for his exciting images. Marine photography has taken Tony to some of the world’s great places such as Papua New Guinea’s: Siassi, Trobriand and D’Entrecasteaux Islands,Tonga, Great Barrier Reef, Sabah, Ningaloo Reefs and Australia’s Coral Sea. In 1998, he was awarded with the prestigious Australian Geographic “Photographer of the Year“, for photography on giant cuttlefish and won several international awards, including a ‘runner up’ position in the “Wildlife Photographer of The Year” award in London, during 1996, 1997, 1998.
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