About Me
Greetings,
I'm Ben, and have spent the last few years working as an instructor-guide in various locations, mainly in Indonesia (Komodo, Raja Ampat), Mexico (Sea of Cortez), Thailand (Andaman Sea), Japan (Hachijo Island) Maldives (South Ari Atoll) and Palau (Micronesia).
When it comes to underwater image-making, I love underwater video, focusing on documenting animal behaviour, especially schooling and predation, as well as juvenile form, and don't shoot stills.
As a former professional musician, I do try to take music seriously in clips and - with the unescapable weight of the years piling up on my weary shoulders - feel increasingly disconnected with phone screens as a main sharing/viewing platform, and content geared for this medium...
Until recently, despite being the water every day as a dive guide, I could only grab a few clips here and there on my faithful GoPro (4 to 7, with a UR Pro CY Filter), and was making the most of that.
However, longing for more manual controls and a boost in image quality, I invested in a very video-friendly compact camera setup (Lumix LX10) before the pandemic, taking it for some test spins on the odd day-off...
Since 2023, my wife and I have been on an extended sabbatical break from working in the diving industry, and I've been spending every other day shooting videos in East Bali's macro paradise with the LX10, working within the limitations of this great little camera.
Clips I’ve shot up to now, including more recent macro doodlings on the LX10, are here:
YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@afieldofblue
My wife and I also created a non-commercial but extensive general information site on diving in Japan, offering a slightly different perspective: https://bluejapan.org/
cheers and happy bubbles!
