Photo-competitions
Since 1983 we received for our photos more than 100 medals and awards from national and international Photo-competitions. One of the highlights was the positioning as vice-world-master of the underwater-photography in the year 1992. After it, we finished our active participation at photo-competitions to have more time for other tasks.

Press
Since 1984 we publishes regularly in german-language and european magazines. Our Nature-stories, experience - and travel-stories, pictures and articles about underwater-photography can be found in magazines, newspapers and journals of the entire press. Altogether our pictures were used more than 50 times for covers on magazines.
unterwasserbilder magazine from Germany oceans, magazine from Italy tauchen, magazine from Germany sporttaucher, magazine from Germany Aquanaut, magazine from Germany

Books
In Cooperation with the publishing-houses "Stuertz- Verlag" and "Delius Klasing Verlag" we produced three coffee-table books and participated in several other books.
Fascination freshwater
Book-Introduce BBC-Wildlife
Probably everyone has asked itself, when he is swimming in the lake: what is there under me? Helmut Corneli and Andreas Koffka brought light in the lakes and photographed fantastic underwater-landscapes. The fascinating pictures abducts the observer in magic-forests which was created of algae, luxuriant water-plants and they show us how the different freshwater-fishes see our over water world. They caught with their cameras also river-crabs, mussels and even shrimps for this uncommon picture-book.
Mediterranean book
Book-Introduce from Heinz Ritter UWF
Never before I saw such a beautiful book over the underwater world of Mediterranean. Now the expert may say: There are not many books about this theme. However Helmut Corneli is a master of the underwater-photography and the expert texts of his wife Barbara makes it to a splendor book. The topics contains biological and photographic macro-areas, low animals, Fishes, up to typical mediterranens underwater-landscapes.
Maldives book
Book-Introduce from the publishing house Delius Klasing Verlag
The photographer- and diving-teacher-couple Barbara and Helmut Corneli presents with spectacular pictures the colorful-iridescent underwater-world of the Maldives with its incomparable numerous of Species and its immeasurable fish-wealth. In the warm water of the Indian-Ocean turning manta-rays their circles, sharks patrols along the coral-reef and hair- and feather-stars extend her filigrees tentacle. Crabs, sea slugs and ghost-pipefish reveal their beauty through the macro-objective only. The life of the native almost resembles another Robinson-life untouched and far away from foreign influences. A splendid picture-book whose texts and pictures documents the untouched beauty under and over waters, calls to a mild tourism and abducts into one of the most beautiful diving-paradises.

Calenders
Since 1991 we produce large-size calenders in cooperation with the publishing-house "Verlagshaus Würzburg".

The new calender 2006 Large size 54 x 48 cm, ISBN 3-8003-2318-0, Price: EUR 24,95

available from August 2005 in german book-shops

Already appeared ( 2005,2004,2003,2002,2001,2000 )

Advertisement and photography on order
We also produce underwater-pictures on order according to customers wishes and ideas. Covers and stories for the press, product-advertisement or pictures for travel-catalogs and tourism, we present effective suggestions and are advisory available for each idea.

EWA-Marine video-plastic-house
Photo on order for the company Ewa-Marine
This job was clear and simple: Beautiful, effective underwater-pictures which show how easy and simple is the application of the flexible underwater-plastk-house. The pictures are used universally: for product-advertisement broadly, Cover for a video-book and particularly in the spring / summer time as posters and eye-catcher in window-outlays of photo-specialist stores.

TV and movie projects
Sperm whales at the Azores
We are also with TV - and movie-productions helpful, as photographers, advisors, assistants or with the planning and managing of difficult underwater-scenes. We are versatilely and produce also the necessary pictures for documentation and advertisement.
Participation with the TV-film "On the tracks of Moby Dick" from Dieter Paulmann. A movie about sperm-whales, produced at the Azores.

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