Credits for minahasalagoon.com

ContentX is an internationally recognized design and content creation company headed by principal Gaben Chancellor. While based out of Santa Cruz, California, we often travel the world to bring our design skills directly to our clientele. For Minahasa Lagoon, ContentX sent two designers and photographers, Gaben Chancellor and Lydia Passannante, to document the location first-hand. Working together over several weeks, they photographed and videotaped both the grounds and the surrounding countryside, while writing copy about the experience, and designing the site. The dynamic new content was to become the core of the website design itself, with designers Zack Hill and Ray Chancellor focusing on bringing it to life in multiple languages. For the personal touch of a premium design team, please contact us at: 831.421.9261, or email info@contentx.com Clay Wiseman is a professional underwater cinematographer and a marine biologist. He has been collecting images underwater since 1976. He is an owner of a Sony HDCam and an Amphibicam underwater housing. In April of 2008 he will take delivery of two 4K RedCam systems with professional Gates housings coming onboard as soon as the prototypes are completed. He leads underwater expeditions to Indonesia specializing in documenting the most biodiverse and unusual marine ecosystems still in existence. To reach Clay please call 831-818-8594 (cell) or 831-429-4153 or email him at clay@underwater-art.com.For more than 30 years Clay has been making still images under the sea. He has crafted imagery for Skin Diver, Sport Diver, Scuba Diving, International Wildlife and National Geographic Magazine. In 1989, Swiss-born Mirko Zanni enrolled in a open water diving course with a friend, hoping to explore even more of the colourful world.Though he was a photographer by nature, it was a while before he began taking pictures of the fabulous fish and landscapes he had seen. "Photography was always a passion of mine: the camera was an essential tool to bring with me on any occasion; to immortalise the places, actions, people and wonderfully colourful events”. After a few years of diving he decided te merge his two passions photography and the underwater world into one. Mirko learned the practical techniques from the field's biggest practitioners, names like David Doubilet, Kurt Amsler and Franco Banfi; and began practising in the rivers near his home. Now he dives all over the world with his girlfriend and model Tanja Porta, and his daughter Asia. Mirko’s photographic tastes are diverse his most favourite subjects are tiny fishes (for which he uses his macro lens) and spectacular wide-angle shots, talken wlth his prized 16mm fish-eye lens. As I am an underwater photographer, 80% of my works are of the seas. As an image maker of our natural world, I sell my pictures to the media, publishers and production companies. I accept assignments from advertising agencies, direct clients, tourism offices and publisher. Lifestyle shoot is mainly water oriented and I also am available to travel to any destination with adequate notice. I strive to portray our ecosystems in its truest form without any digital adulteration or modification. As the seas sustained my livelihood and my family, my stewardship takes on an even greater responsibility. It only makes sense that I give back by helping more in preservation of our natural world. We started OceanNEnvironment in 1996, a charity organization registered with Environment Australia – its mission is to educate and support conservation projects in the Asia Pacific. A lot of my time and proceeds from my sales are contributed to OceanNEnvironment. I like to thank you for supporting my work, my books and taking time to visit this site. I look forward to sharing the same ocean with you. Michael AW For over twenty-five years, Robert Yin has been photographing coral reefs of the Tropical Pacific in an attempt to capture the intriguing natural beauty of this environment. His underwater photographs have appeared in many books and almost all the dive magazines including Rodale’s Scuba Diving Magazine, National Geographic, Marine Photos, Ocean Realm, etc. Some recent books are “Marine Life for Young Readers and Marine Life for Young Readers - Spanish Edition, 24 titles, by Dominie Press, USA and “Beneath Philippines Sea” by Bookmark, Philippines. 10 books have been published by Hameray Publishing Ltd: “Undersea Encounters”, namely“Clever Crustaceans”, “Creepy Sea Creatures”, “Fish Not Fish”, “Fish Tricks”, “Hide & Seek”, “Ocean Oddities”, “Scuba School”, “Sea Turtles”, “Spines Stingers & Teeth”, and “Treacherous Tentacles”. Today, with the coral reefs around the world being threatened by man-made and natural causes, his hope is that his work will help convince people of the need to take immediate action to save these once pristine reefs for the future generations. Email address: ryin1@san.rr.com Peter is the publisher of the online magazine Underwater Photography which he started in 2001. He is also half of Magic Filters which have revolutionized digital photography underwater with available light. In addition he services and repairs underwater photo equipment which he has been doing for over 30 years. He shoots stills with a D70 DSLR in a Subal housing and a Panasonic compact camera as well as video with a modified Top Dawg housing for his Sony HC1 HD camera. He started diving and underwater photography in the early 1970\'s and in 1976 formed Ocean Optics in London to import and distribute underwater photography equipment in the UK. This expanded to producing camera housings and services to the offshore oil industry. In 1987 he published a printed magazine Underwater Photography which he expanded 2 years later into Sport Diver. This was bought out 2 years later and eventually became the PADI magazine in the UK. Peter sold Ocean Optics in 1994 and now lives in Devon in the southwest of the UK where he enjoys diving as much as if not more than overseas.

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