GEO October 2011 – Lake Eyre Story
GEO October 2011 - Lake Eyre Story Our 2.5 month winter expedition this year to outback Australia's Lake Eyre Basin is now out in the German GEO Magazine! [phoenixgallery id="geo-lake-eyre"]
Tauchen Magazine – West Australia 2008
Tauchen Magazine - West Australia 2008 FLASHBACK - October 2008 We were boarding the fabulous diveboat MV Febrina on Yogi's birthday in 2008 when a fellow guest from Germany chased Yogi with a magazine upon finding out he was Jürgen Freund. The newest issue of Tauchen Magazine had our West Australia story in it and the [...]
A Raja Ampat Video of Freund Factory at work – WWF Coral Triangle Expedition
A Raja Ampat Video of Freund Factory at work - WWF Coral Triangle Expedition While we were in North Raja Ampat, we were incredibly fortunate to have professional photographers and videographers Claudia & Leon Joubert document our stay and experience in what is arguably the epicenter of marine biodiversity. Claudia Pellarini-Joubert and Leon Joubert of the Bittenbysharks.com [...]
Rolex Laureates Collaborating – Jürgen Freund on Assignment for Rolex in Ningaloo 2008
Rolex Laureates Collaborating - Jürgen Freund on Assignment for Rolex in Ningaloo 2008 FLASHBACK - May 2008 Rory Wilson and Brad Norman - two Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureates joined forces to study whale sharks of Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. Yogi was given this "difficult" assignment of spending luxurious time onboard the boat of retired NBA [...]
AIMS CReefs – Census of Marine Life, Lizard Island 2008
The Census of Marine Life (CoML) is a grand global project with an objective to survey and analyze changes from past to present in marine life biodiversity, distribution and abundance, and to compile the resultant data into a comprehensive database called the “Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS),” to be used in forecasting the future of marine life. [...]
GEO Snake Expedition – Australia 2008
GEO Snake Expedition - Australia 2008 FLASHBACK – February 2008 Way back December 2007, Yogi was asked by the GEO photo editors to do a photographic snake expedition with scientist Dr. Guido Westhoff. The assignment required them to go to the Queensland outback for land snakes and Weipa for sea snakes. This expedition marked our first big [...]
Turtles! Our Marine Ambassadors are Unwell
14 – 18 May 2011 Bowen, Queensland, Australia About a year ago, we wrapped up our epic 18-month Coral Triangle photo expedition with our last leg in Timor Leste. We finished a long photographic marathon and yes, we were eager to finally see the end of it and go home. Now, a year of rest [...]
Lake Eyre 2 – Birdlife and Pelicans in the Outback
Charming Red-necked Avocet in Lake Eyre from the shores of Halligan Bay May-July 2011 A Lake Eyre photo assignment from GEO magazine got us quickly driving 3,000 km to the heart of South Australia to meet German writer Markus Wolff in Roxby Downs. Markus was flying in from Hamburg with many connecting flights to reach Adelaide and we were driving [...]
Lake Eyre 1 – Following the Water
The flooded Lake Eyre from the air. Have you ever wondered what a massive lake in the middle of the flat dry Australian desert looks like? Can you even begin to imagine what or where this famed lake is? Lake Eyre for those who know where it is geographically conjures visions of expansive dry salt fields beside the [...]
Timor Leste Cowboys from the Maubissi Highlands
14 - 16 August 2010 S8 83.872 E125 60.340 – Maubisse Highland Maubisse was some six hours drive from Dili. It sounds like a long trip uphill but we stopped a lot along the way. One scene that definitely made us pause was the painful sight of a forest gone and the erosion that took [...]