When Tobias Friedrich was a child he loved to watch the adventures of the Calypso with Jacques-Yves Cousteau as it's captain and the beautiness of the world that is below the ocean's surface. It's still an overwhelming feeling for him when he has the chance to dive. He loves the elegancy and calmness of the world under water standing in contrast to the hectic atmosphere above.

He is shooting with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II in an UK-GERMANY housing. Most used lenses under water are the Canon 17-40mm wideangle and the 100mm Canon macro lense. The pictures are lighted with two Ikelite DS-125 strobes and positioned by ULCS strobe arms.

Tobias is a professional underwater photographer and photographs as well as writes stories for diving magazines (like UNTERWASSER, TAUCHEN, ATLANTIS, ...) on a regular basis. He has won several prices in pretigious international underwater photo competitions (EPSON Red Sea, Beneath the Sea, Celebrate Our Sea, ....).

01/12: Cover shot of the Atlantis Magazine.
01/12: Conservational pictures printed in the Fotoforum Magazine.
12/11: 8-page reportage about New Zealand in the TAUCHEN magazine.
12/11: 2 pages about my conservational pictures published in the SILENT WORLD magazine. [Download] with courtesy of SILENT WORLD.
03/11: 8 pages of pictures from Eilat, Israel in the UNTERWASSER magazine.
01/11: 3 pages about panaromic photography under water and 1 page about an UK-GERMANY macro adapter in the UNTERWASSER magazine.
01/11: Cover shot of the Atlantis Magazine "Bookazine".
01/11: 5-page reportage about Malpelo published in the Atlantis Magazine.
11/10: 9-page reportage about the Riff Villa in Marsa Alam in the UNTERWASSER magazine.
06/10: 10-page reportage about river diving in Switzerland in the TAUCHEN magazine.
05/10: Cover shot of the Atlantis Magazine at issue 2/2010.
11/09: Reportage and pictures from Kenya in the SeaStar magazine starting at page 14. [Download]
09/09: Reportage and pictures from Egypt in the SeaStar magazine starting at page 30. [Download]
12/08: Reportage and pictures from Korsika in the SeaStar magazine starting at page 40. [Download]
01/08: Reportage and pictures of Bayahibe, Dominican Republic in the SeaStar magazine. [Download]
12/07: 3 pages with pictures from Mozambique in the SeaStar magazine. [Download]