It’s Sardine Run Show Time! I’m here again, watching the greatest underwater show ever witnessed, the sardine run. Every cell in my body is wired – I’m back in the middle of this underwater feeding frenzy, which a sardine baitball, no bigger than a SUV, is creating. Numerous predators leading a chaotic yet organized attack…
Category Archives: Photography
AfriOceans, Campaigns, Conservation, Diving with Sharks, Great White Shark, Lesley Rochat, Photography, Travelling
Awesome success! Photo & Writing Internship
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Jan
Jan
“This internship was more than I could have ever hoped for, we’ve done so much in a month, it has been and adventure of a lifetime, I’ve grown so much as a person and certainly learned the skills in photography and environmental writing to help me become a conservationist.” Says Charlotte Bond, recent graduate from…
Conservation, Diving with Sharks, Lesley Rochat, Photography, Sardine Run, shark photography, Travelling
Shark Warrior Adventures with Lesley Rochat
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May
May
The time has come to share more of my ocean adventures with others, to also impart my knowledge and skills to the next generation of young conservationist. I’m happy about this decision; it excites me and means I will be in the water more often, doing what I love most, travelling, filming and photographing, public…
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Jul
Jul
I am blessed to be following my passion and doing what I love most, fighting for our oceans and finding compelling ways of raising awareness and educating the general public about the importance of conserving our beautiful oceans and in particular, our majestic sharks. Photography is an important part of my work and I am…
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May
May
I’m featuring in a SABC 2, 50.50. production, which the warm and passionate, full of energy, Jacqui Logie, is directing. The weather put hold to Jacqui filming me for three weeks in a row but finally the Cape winter weather smiles on us and we are on a Pisces Divers boat, heading for Pyramid Rock…
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May
May
I rushed to catch the magic light the other day to take these shots, but forgot to charge up my battery and to take the tripod plate, so it was very tricky indeed! The light changed rapidly, and within minutes it was dark. I like the colour change of the two photos, they inspired me…
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Apr
Apr
I have just returned from a shoot, diving and photographing the blacktips and tiger sharks along Durban’s South coast. Though the conditions were not ideal, bad viz and rough seas mostly, the sharks were spectacular, and the company kept with other passionate shark conservationists and good friends was really special. As soon as I have…
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Nov
Nov
In the bosom of the Ocean, in the heart of Nature, the pulse of planet Earth, that which is the life support system of all that exists as we know it, wrapped in precious water, here I find God, Peace, Love, Joy, Wisdom and Truth.
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Aug
Aug
It was a wild week, meeting after meeting, one demand of me after the next, new creative awareness ideas taking shape, others needing more money than there is, running late for some deadlines, squeezing in an interview with Juliet Eilperin from Washington Post for a book she is writing about sharks, and to top it…
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Aug
Aug
It’s a beautiful day in False Bay and I’m on Mike’s boat (of Pisces Divers), heading for the seven gill shark dive. I confess I live here but for various reasons I have not done the dive yet. As a shark conservationist it has got to the embarrassing stage: “What, you haven’t dived with them…
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