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Who we are |
We started Earthphotos because of our immense love and concern for the world around us.
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Mark van Coller
Mark studied at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana, USA. He has also attended several Freeman Patterson Workshops over the years in Namaqualand. He has received two Highly Commended awards from the Fujifilm Photographic Awards, and also one Highly Commended from Nature’s Best International Magazine. Along with his photography, he also does digital large format printing for the past four years. He is a highly skilled underwater photographer, having worked on the multimedia CD, Scuba Sodwana. On that project he photographed over 200 fish species and numerous invertebrates for identification purposes. |
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Sophia van Coller
Sophia did a four year diploma in Fine Art at the Foundation School of Art in Cape Town. She is a qualified dive instructor, boat skipper and underwater photography instructor, having worked as photo pro in Grand Cayman at the School of Underwater Photography as well as the Bahamas. Before starting their company, she worked for three years as a fulltime Press Photographer for Independent Newspapers in Cape Town. |
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| 1 February 2010 |
| Photographing Blue Sharks! |
Mark got the chance to spend the day, 20 nautical miles off Cape Point, coming eye to eye with one of the most beautiful sharks in the ocean, the Blue Shark....
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| 21 July 2009 |
| Sardine Run 2009 |
This year, Sardine Run 2009, delivered some great action and amazing images! Mark, based out of East London, took most of the images on the first day, as they really hit the road running, with enough baitballs to make any photographer happy...and wife at home green with envy! ...
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| 12 December 2008 |
| Mozambique |
The last two weeks of November we packed the 4x4 and headed up to Tofu, Mozambique to join Julie Andersen, one of the Shark Angels and Paul Wildman, her partner and cameraman. We wanted to check out the shark finning situation, but also hoped to photograph some of their mega fauna in the Tofu region. That proved slightly more tricky than we had anticipated.......
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| 7 July 2008 |
| Madagascar |
Our latest photographic trip took us to Madagascar, a wild and magical place, but sometimes almost too fragile when in the hands of the wrong people. We spent three weeks exploring the south and western part, the magnificent Tsingy forest in particular......
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| 7 July 2008 |
| Sardine Run 2008 |
This year the Sardine Run along our Natal coast took us to the town of Port Edward. Heavy rains and severe floods made photographing almost impossible....
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