Aquarium Photography

Anne Brauer & Jurgen Brauer · Issue 11, Feb/Mar 2003 · pp. 58–63

Products mentioned: Olympus C-3040Z, Olympus PT-010 housing, Inon UWL-100 wide-angle lens

Aquarium Photography by Jurgen Brauer What to do when the photography urge itches but you can’t get wet? Answer: grab your camera gear and go to a nearby aquarium. And grab your diving gear just in case: some aquariums, as my daughter and I found out, do let you jump right in. Many aquariums of course recruit volunteer divers for fish feeding and tank cleaning duties. That is a good option for local divers. But what’s the traveler to do? We have found, to our delight, that you do not always have to be in the water to take interesting “underwater” photographs. The jellyfish tank on the cover page - this one in Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium - certainly evokes plenty of underwater memories. More on Cape Town later in the story. I report on three very different kinds of aquariums. The first is the venerable Berlin Aquarium which we visited in the summer of 2002. Opened on 18 August 1913, t…