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Scott,
I must say you captured this great property.
Hope you don't mind, I did some tweaking...
For those following along with my series, I apologize for the delay. Each blog requires me to retype notes, inject a few photos and work on an applicable dive or review video. This can only happen on weekends when I'm not overwhelmed by my day job.…
For those following along with my series, I apologize for the delay. Each blog requires me to retype notes, inject a few photos and work on an applicable dive or review video. This can only happen on weekends when I'm not overwhelmed by my day job.…
Very interesting. Thanks David for the post.
Fijiguide.com lucky to have Scott Putnam as its videographer. Subtle, nuanced and tastefully scored, his latest creation, is a work of art. Every video is better than the next...
Atop a coral peninsula extending out into the southeast corner of Savusavu Bay, the Lighthouse dive site is a spectacular spaghetti coral factory.
Cyclone Tomas hit northeast Fiji dead-on. A ferocious storm, it clobbered the eastern tip of Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Qamea, Matangi, and Laucala for close to two terrifying days. Greg Taylor, JMC's manager, remarked (when speaking of the storm) that th…
Atop a coral peninsula extending out into the southeast corner of Savusavu Bay, the Lighthouse dive site is a buffer between the open ocean and bay. Named f...
Cyclone Tomas hit northeast Fiji dead-on. A ferocious storm, it clobbered the eastern tip of Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Qamea, Matangi, and Laucala for close to two terrifying days. Greg Taylor, JMC's manager, remarked (when speaking of the storm) that th…
As you can imagine, the Jean-Michael Cousteau Resort does diving. The dive shop, named "L’Aventure Dive Shop" (just the title is French) is a full-service dive operation, offering everything from Discover Scuba classes to Advanced Diver/Master cla…
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- Diving, Culture, Sight Seeing, Flora & Fauna
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- Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, Kadavu
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Cousteau at Night
Posted on July 24, 2010 at 7:30am — 1 Comment
All About Alice --Scott Putnam talks diving at JMC and elaborates on his newest video
Posted on July 4, 2010 at 11:00pm —
I get settled (into JMC)
I shake Greg’s hand good-bye and follow my guide as we begin the overview of Cousteau’s bures. My guide is a sweet gal, dressed in a green dress uniform. All of Cousteau’s staff, except for Greg and his assistant manager, are uniformed. One’s job description dictates the uniform wor… Continue
Posted on July 1, 2010 at 10:00pm —
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:46am on July 29, 2010,
Ricardo Serpa said…
- Loosing equipment like you did is always a sad thing, and I have lost my share of lenses in the past. On the other hand, I think it's part of what we do, and my days as a staff photographer for a big Brazilian newspaper taught me this: get the shot, no matter what. Then be happy with the shot you've got, it will probably be a much more intense feeling than any eventual sadness over the cost of the shot - equipment losses included. Makes sense to me!
:-)
- At 7:31pm on July 28, 2010,
Ricardo Serpa said…
- Thanks for the kind words, Scott, I really had a lot of fun taking these photos in to separate trips to Tavarua. Got lucky with the waves too... One of the photographers in the water is Scott Weiner, a frequent guest of Tavarua and a very nice guy. The other is a Japanese guy, Kenyu Takahashi, also a fantastic professional. Not so many stories, I'm afraid, except for the day when the Kenyu and I got distracted in the water at Cloudbreak, talking to each other between sets, and got carried away to the worst possible spot there. A huge set came in straight upon us, I lost my camera by the third or fourth wave and was already considering the extension of the damage when a friend paddled back to the line-up with my Canon DsIII and 70-200/Aquatech combo on his surfboard. He found it by pure chance after being caught in the inside. That's something I won't forget for sure... Stay well, Scott. Aloha!
- At 9:33pm on January 20, 2010,
Mission at Natuvu Creek said… - Thanks Scott for your encouraging words. I have passed them on to Marta and Tom. Please stop by next time you are "in town!" Best, Karen for MNC
- At 6:48pm on January 6, 2010,
Robert F. Kay said…
- As usual beautiful stuff. We need to catch up on the phone while my Fiji trip is still fresh!
- At 10:08pm on January 4, 2010,
Robert F. Kay said…
- Hi Scott,
I'm back! Just booted up the old machine -- doing my Pavlovian thing.
Good to be back...it's been very interesting and I'll need to digest for a while. I've got another 10 or so blogs to post. I've really been cranking. Took a lot of photos too.
I'm glad people are "friending" each other on the site. Looks like to some cool conversations between Fiji-based people and people over here.
Thanks for the story. When you next go to Fiji, you gotta visit Kula Eco park and check out the aquarium that has figured out how to grow soft coral.
I think you'd dig it...well it's back to washing and opening mail!
- At 10:26pm on December 16, 2009,
Robert F. Kay said…
- Scott,
Well edited and shot. Lots of cool perspectives. Not much you could do about the lighting situation 24 meters down. I've never seen a vid of the GWW. Another first for Fijiguide!
- At 6:13pm on December 12, 2009,
Robert F. Kay said…
- Scott,
Very nifty little vid on flying to Taveuni. That's the kind of the thing the FVB should be paying you to do. You only missed on thing. At the tail end, flying into Matei the plane passed directly over Taveuni Island Resort. Otherwise you nailed 'em all.
Vinaka!
- At 7:18pm on December 6, 2009,
Marilyn Marsh said… - Fantastic photos Scott. Will look forward to seeing more of your work.
- At 6:15pm on December 6, 2009,
Robert F. Kay said…
- Scott,
Great shots. Love the Barracudas and the the eel especially. .you're a real artist. Thanks for adding them to Fijiguide.
- At 6:40pm on November 8, 2009,
Mika Leuck said… - Bula Scott! We hope you enjoy the new Fiji Guide. We will be launching on Tuesday.
We hope to see you in the groups and forums!
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