New Caledonia and Vanuatu Tourism Photography by Richard and Frederique Chesher
I love photography.
By the time I was 10, I had my own darkroom and processed films and prints in black and white and then in color. In 1959 I began doing underwater photography in support of my activities as a professional diver and later as a graduate student in marine sciences. I assisted the professional underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg in south Florida and worked as an underwater photographer for Ribikoff Oceanics and Westinghouse.
By the time I was 10, I had my own darkroom and processed films and prints in black and white and then in color. In 1959 I began doing underwater photography in support of my activities as a professional diver and later as a graduate student in marine sciences. I assisted the professional underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg in south Florida and worked as an underwater photographer for Ribikoff Oceanics and Westinghouse.
My first published images appeared in National
Geographic Magazine in November 1966, and since then, my scientific and
travel photographs have been published in so many books and magazines
that I have long since lost track of them. My photo agents in London and
New York send me lists of sales from time to time.
In 2000, Frederique and I began production of
travel and cruising guides to Vanuatu and New Caledonia and we specialized in hotel, resort, and tourism photography.
Our images of 46 Vanuatu hotels and resorts and 50 New Caledonia hotels, resorts and gites have appeared on magazine covers, wholesale travel catalogues, websites, magazine and newspaper articles around the world.
Our images of 46 Vanuatu hotels and resorts and 50 New Caledonia hotels, resorts and gites have appeared on magazine covers, wholesale travel catalogues, websites, magazine and newspaper articles around the world.
We use high dynamic range photography so
you can see inside and outside of a hotel room just as if you were
standing in it - no more closed drapes or overexposed views outside the room.
The Junior Suite at the Hilton Promenade Hotel in Noumea |
For some scenes we use extreme depth of field photography so everything is in focus, from close up to far away.
The dining room at the Grand Hotel in Port Vila, Vanuatu |
And we take photos at night, always achieving perfect lighting conditions.
The Hilton Promenade Hotel in Noumea, New Caledonia |
Virtual Reality Photography
In 2005 we began experimenting with the new frontier of virtual reality spherical images.
Our virtual reality tourism pictures of New Caledonia and Vanuatu appear on google earth and it's associated website 360Cities.net. They have had well over 1 million views.
in 2016 Frederique and I published a Virtual Tour of the New Caledonia Lagoon, presenting sphere images of New Caledonia seascapes, including spectacular New Caledonia beaches, under/overwater sphere images, underwater super panoramic sphere images, and sphere images of New Caledonia lagoon sealife including New Caledonia sea birds, fish, turtles, corals and activities like diving and sailing.
Our popular interactive virtual reality
photographs of hotel rooms place the viewer in the room, giving an
unequaled experience of the room. The images can be quickly and easily
embedded on any website. Our photography improved the web traffic for our tourism clients. The sphere images on Google Earth attracted over a million views and helped promote the activities and locations where they were taken.
We also developed the first underwater sphere
images that bring the fascination of the coral reef onto computers
around the world. The first one of these underwater sphere images to be
published on Google Earth drew more than 100,000 visitors in the first 5
months. These are "Billboards on the Information Highway" and allow
visitors to go directly to the websites of our clients.
South Pacific Activities Photography
In addition to hotel and resort photography we had the pleasure of photographing most of the tours and activities in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
Family Portrait during the Black Magic Tour in Tanna Vanuatu |
Air Caledonie Loyalty Island Flight landing in Noumea |
For example, the under/overwater photograph below that we took for Mary D enterprises has been successful on magazine covers, magazine advertisements, buses, and posters.
MaryD even printed it on the front of their tour buses.
You can review over a thousand of our images of New Caledonia Activities and Vanuatu Activities images on:
imagesvanuatu.com, imagesnewcaledonia.com and newcaledonialagoon.com
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Rick, so happy to see your success. We knew you as neighbors in Leisure Cily, Florida. Then you were doing night diving and photographing of sharks. What a great career. We also saw the article about your research of starfish off Guam.
ReplyDeleteYou've come a long way. Your wife looks lovely and obviously very talented as well. Ian and I wish you continues success . Linda and Ian Glenday,