I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE to travel to many different locations as a dive travel journalist and underwater photographer. Here are a few of my bylines which include my photography. I have had over 200 articles published over the years and available for commissions - email: lrochat@africa.com
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
The islands off the main land of Malaysia offer a world of exotic names, luminescent fishes and underwater jewels. Lured by the adventures of Jacques Cousteau, I packed my wetsuit and travelled to four different islands where I learned to muck dive for this main feature article for Getaway Magazine.
"...a tropical paradise where nature has, over aeons, meticulously woven a colourful and complex tapestry…blinding white beaches sprinkled with tropical trees that bow down to a dazzling turquoise sea.”
Cover and main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
From the depths of the Red Sea's infamous Blue Hole to the top of Mount Sinai, and 3750 steps back down I exlpored Egypt for a cover feature article for Getaway magazine. I was part of a documentary film crew that journeyed to unusual dive and desert locations on Egypt's Sinai Peninsular.
"Transfixed, I felt the spirit of the ancient, biblical desert and could almost hear the hot wind whisper the secrets of the sands. At once I understood why pilgrims who reached the Sinai in centuries past declared it to be their nearest encounter with God."
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
The Magnificent Brothers. Anything that pegs itself as the 'ultimate' is surely setting itself up for disappointment, not these Brothers... By Lesley Rochat.
Lesley Rochat