The Hydra 8000 WRGBU is a lightweight, compact, and powerful video light with lots of unique features for creative video shooting. This video light is very easy to control using the dial+push button interface. The 8000-lumen output with 60 minutes of burn time was plenty to shoot macro and wide-angle video for multiple dives. From the unique burst mode to the Red/Green/ Blue/UV/RGB Adjustable color modes, the Hydra 8000 gives the videographer unparalleled creative flexibility. Moreover, the incredible features of this light are complemented by the available accessories. In these past 9 months of traveling around the world, I have found the Hydra 8000 WRGBU to be a must have video light for any underwater videographer.

We have become accustomed at the perfectly engineered look of the pictures taken with our modern lenses. The Through the Vintage Lens Series is a project with the goal of capturing underwater fauna and sceneries using the unique perspective of vintage lenses. With this project, my intention is to explore the new creative possibilities that imperfect vintage lenses can have on our image-making. From extreme, bubbly bokeh to razor sharpness, these lenses can help capture the underwater world from a different point of view.

To talk about Tamariu is to talk about a cove of immense calmness and cold winds in the winter and radiant sun and tourist activity in the summer. It offers anything from deep, dry-suit dives suited for experienced divers to diverse marine life and shallow reefs for new divers in a 7mm wetsuit and underwater photographers. One of the three coastal towns in Palafrugell, Tamariu, is part of the Costa Brava region in the province of Girona, northeastern Catalonia, Spain. It is located 70 miles south of the border with France, a one hour and a half drive from Barcelona, and at the end of a windy road along a cliff. The town adopts its name after the many tamarisk trees surrounding the cove’s promenade. Tamariu depicts the classic Costa Brava look of rugged cliffs covered in pine trees that abruptly cascade to meet the clear, deep blue Mediterranean waters filled with gorgonian coral reefs, seagrass beds, and diverse fauna.