Biography of the author:My
name is Magnus Keijser. I am 37 years old and live in Stockholm, Sweden.
I have a master's degree in engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm, but am currently unemployed.
I've been diving since 1992 and have over 500 dives in my dive log. I am an active
photographer since 1976 and bought my first Nikonos V just after my PADI Open Water
course, in '92. I started with the Nikonos V kit, UW-nikkor 35 mm and SB103, and later
added macro tubes and a Sea&Sea 15 mm lense.
I drowned my first Nikonos V on a dive safari in the Maldives in 1996.
Undiscouraged, I bought a new one which lasted until late 1999. It also drowned due to a
little accident with the sync cable. I had it fixed but decided it was time to pick up the
pace and go for a professional system. So I got a housing for my old Nikon F801 which
provides so many more possibilities.
Nowadays I go under water to take pictures, not for just diving.
I dive all year round in Sweden and travel to warmer climes at least once a year for dive
safaris. I have scuba-dived all over the world, in such places as Egypt, the Maldives,
California in the USA, Cozumel in Mexico, Malta, Norway and of course Sweden. I also enjoy
ice diving.
The winning picture was taken at "Pesaskäret" near Kungshamn, Sweden during
february of this year. Water temperature: 4 degrees Celsius.
The camera I used is a Nikon F801 in a Ikelite SLR housing with a Tamron 90 mm
macro-lense (f16, 1/125 sec). Strobes: Ikelite Substrobe 100A and a Nikonos SB105. Film
used: Kodak 100VS, (my favourite). |
