This
is a showcase of Dan Burton underwater images. The site includes Freediving,Technical
diving, wreck diving & diving Expeditions from around the world.
The site now includes more than 11000 images, with regular updates.
He
has now taken to the sky's & shoots aerial images...
Enjoy
the images.
With over 18 years
experience as a professional photographer, Dan's career spans a variety
of genres and specialties. His professional photographic qualifications
and on-going experimental photography work is complemented by his additional
skills as a highly proficient and experienced deep-sea technical diver,
freediver and Paramotor pilot. This combination of skills has given
Dan access to some of the most exciting and unusual photographic shoots
ever seen.
His work includes some early pioneering
technical wreck dives, such as the recovery of US$50 million work of
silver from theEl
Cazador at a depth of 300ft, and salvaging valuable artifacts
from the thousand year old Intan
Wreck in Indonesia.
In the mid 90's he was part of the first (NOAA) tri-mix
dive expedition to the USS
Monitor. In 1997 he
was invited to join an international team to photographer and film the
HMHS
Britannic - sister ship to the Titanic - resting
at 380ft (120m) in the Aegean Sea.
Over the last decade, he has been involved in the sport of freediving,
and has worked with the top ranking athletes around the world, and has
covered many freediving world records. He has worked with Tanya
Streeter, Herbert Nitsch, Sara Campbell, Carlos Coste, Martin Stepanik,
Fred Buyle and many more.
His photographs have
been published in hundreds of books and magazines worldwide, with featured
work in National Geographic, Scientific
American, WIRED, BBC Wildlife, GQ, FHM, Mens Health, Titanic Society,
Tauchen, AQUA, Illustreret Videnskab, Pour La Science, Geographical
Magazine, Mercedes Magazine etc.
He has also been involved in a variety of film work, and has worked
for the National Geographic Channel,BBC,Save
Our Sea Foundation,Discovery Channel and Channel 4's Wreck Detectives
2 (8 part series) and Trans World Sport, etc.
In 2000 he was
the principle underwater photographer on both the final Camel
Trophy in Tonga and Discovery.com.
Shark Week -- which was a live web broadcast shooting
on digital camera. His specialties cover people, photojournalism,
underwater and aerial. When he is not diving, he spends his time
flying and shooting from the the air.
His images and video footage are held in photography libraries around
the world, including Nature Pics,
Image State, Alamy, Buzz Pictures, Wildlife GmbH, Splashdown and Seapics.com
During this Summer Dan joined a team of 6 paramotor pilots to fly the long journey from Land End to John 'Groats. The Journey took 16 day, and covered more than 850 GPS miles, with more than 40 hours in the air. The weather was challenging, and many said that they'd never do it. Some pilots pulled out, and only 2 pilots managed to make the journey. We were the first recorded pilots to make this journey.
Dan was one of the survivors, and got to the end without any mishaps. To see some images, visit The Tip 2 Gallery.
The project was filmed using the Sony Z7, and Dan and Hot Ashes Productions are in the stages of producing an action packed 1 hr HD film.
The mission was a complete success, and we now planning to do more aerial adventures in the future .Watch this space.
Dan builds his own underwater housings,
and has designed housing for still cameras including the Nikon
D2x, Hasselblad Xpan, SWC, and video camera including
the Sony Z1. His cameras
have been used on numerous assignments, and been used to depths of in
excess of 200m.
He is a pioneer in high resolution
panoramic and spherical
underwater images and digital underwater photography starting
back in 2000.
In January 2008 Dan will be building
a housing for the new RED
HD. Watch this space for more details.
Wednesday, July 02 2008 @ 12:23 PM BST Contributed by: Dan
Digital Photography & video Workshop
I will be running a digital working with Blueotwo on August 29th- 5th September to the Southern Red Sea. We will be based on the Blue Melody, and hosted by expert diving guides Dray and Karin VanBeeck.
For more information please visit Here . Or feel free to contact me about the week. Look forward to seeing you..
Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 05:00 PM BST Contributed by: Dan
I am delighted to now be a "Friend of the Oris". Having worked closely with freediver Carlos Coste for more than a decade, Oris Watches have asked me to test the new Oris Divers Regulateur “Der Meistertaucher” – the biggest watch they've ever produced.
Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 11:52 AM BST Contributed by: Dan
Test of new lens underwater
This is a test film using a 0.2 lens on the Sony HC1 camera. No awards to be had!
The lens was not designed to be used underwater, but behind a wide angle port it gives an amazing 180 degree view, wider than any maufacturers on the market produce.
Problems using this lens are as follows:
I had a few technical problems using this lens. The lens is silver, and needs to be painted black, as silver reflections can be seen in the glass port. Then I must Zoom in a bit to remover the cutoff,and lessen the vinyetting. I did zoom in, with out any cutoff showing in the viewfinder, but this didn't work enough. More work to be done.
Tip too Tip flight from Lands end to John O'Groat on a Paramotor!
Monday, January 14 2008 @ 01:27 PM GMT Contributed by: Dan
We finally got to John O Groat on the 11th August 2008. After more than 800 GPS miles, and 40+ hours of flying. The trip took 16 days, and allot of hard work. We hit the worst possible weather you could imagine, but we got there tired, but the trip was well worth while. The trip started with 7 pilots, and myself as the cameraman, after 16 days, there was one pilots and myself..
We are now planning the next trip for next summer. Watch this space..
A special thanks to all the ground crew and other pilots for such a great adventure.
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