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Newsletter 2005-12 www.jostimages.com - December 2005
Dear readers,
It's been some time since the last newsletter
appeared and it's about time
for a progress report.
I'm happy about the fact that daily up
to 4,000 visitors from all over the world
visit www.jostimages.com and www.jostimages.com. There are many
enthusiastic comments.
Here are some excerpts from the numerous
comments:
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..I just wanted to tell
you what a great site you
have. And to say that your photographs of the Great White Sharks are
magnificent! I heard about you
through a friend of mine. I live in the USA.
I have been in love
with White Sharks ever since I have seen the movie Jaws
when I was young. I have several shark books, stuffed sharks, towels, shirts,
etc.
But since I am not rich
& because I am disabled my
dream of seeing a real White Shark up close is Nil. Thanks for having
such a wonderful site for everyone that loves sharks; to
view..
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A co-worker of Dr. Leonard Compagno, Shark
Research Centre Cape Town, wrote: ..I was blown away by
your website images! I have been trolling the net looking for suitable
visuals for our new exhibit. We are busy with the installation of
Sharkworld, an exhibition for the South African Natural History Museum
in Cape Town. We are working in tandem with the Save our Seas
foundation. Even so, we intend for the exhibit to be a showcase for
the world's best shark/underwater photographers such as Chris and
Monique Fallows and Tom Campbell, who have agreed to help. Would you
consider donating the use of some of your pics? Cape Town is fast
becoming the shark capital of the world, especially where the Great
White is concerned. The museum is visited by hundreds of thousands of
local and international visitors per year, and with your help we are
well-placed to spread awareness of the importance of sharks, their
protection, as well as to dispel misconceptions about these magnificent
creatures..
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The magazine http://www.g-o.de writes e. g. under biology/zoology about www.jostimages.com:
"Phantastic pictures from Klaus Jost of nature, wilderness, the bears of Alaska, the Great White Shark, breaching Great White
Sharks, the Tiger Shark, the Bull Shark, the Lemon Shark, of sharks and sea
birds as well as exciting underwater pictures of several
oceans..
I also get
many e-mails with all sorts of questions. It becomes more and more difficult for me to
find enough time to answer them all.
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Special thanks go to Holger
Witt who hosts
the website and updates it
regularly. Everything connected
with it lies in his hands.
Everythink about him was
beautiful exept his jaws .The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway,
is the title of a Canon Europe Interview
with me. In this interview, the fatal situation of the
sharks is made known to a
group of people which usually has
nothing to do with these animals. The resonance from all over the world was very
positive. The
interview can be read
under:
http://www.cps.canon-europe.com/articles/article.jsp?article.articleId=100084
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At the end of May/beginning of June 2005, one of my pictures of a Great White Shark
was shown on two promotional
towers in front of
the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange in the size
of 4.90 x 2.05 m. However, the impressively large bill was not intended to scare people as usual, but
to communicate a positive image. This worked out perfectly. It was titled "Swim with the big fish". The photo, an extreme closeup view of a Great White Shark,
was taken off Dyer
Island/South
Africa .
A compliment to the advertising agency and the bank,
who also used other animal
motives in
this campaign in the
same positive way.
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In July /August I was again in South Africa and also visited Dr. Leonard
Compagno in the South
African Natural History Museum in Cape Town. His latest book "Sharks of
the World" (Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando, Sarah
Fowler ISBN 0-691-12072-2) is a milestone and can be recommended to everybody interested in
sharks. In the meantime, the
"Sharkworld
exhibition. can be visited all
the year. While visiting Cape
Town you should schedule this
shark exhibition in the museum. Some of my shark motives are on display there,
too.
Of course I
visited Gansbai again. But my enthusiasm was limited and I am not sure
if I will return to this place next year. The White Shark Tour Operator uses larger and larger boats, sometimes with more
than 20 persons on
board. Shark cages with a capacity
of up to six persons are used and it is just like working on
the assembly line . that is,
if the shark on duty shows up. Although I am not directly involved in
this (whenever possible I try
to be alone with Andre Hartman in
a small boat), I don't like the
high concentration of the large boats with many visitors around
Dyer Island, and I guess neither do the sharks.
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Moreover, the weather was mostly bad during my
stay and I was able to visit animal parks in the meantime,
concentrating on land animals. Andre Hartman . also an excellent expert of the land Fauna and Flora . made it possible for me to take fascinating
pictures of the "Golden or Yellow Cape Cobra. (Naja nivea).
In September , the renowned magazine "JOURNAL OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETY
Interface" had a Great White Shark on its cover.
I made the cover picture; it
was once the picture of the year of GEO. The editor's comment: "It is, perhaps,
the most striking cover yet in this journal's short
history..."
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At the end of September/beginning of October I was in the South Seas, where I was
able to document six shark species despite the bad weather. The photo material is currently being scanned.
Merry Christmas and a happy New
Year to all our readers! Klaus Jost http://www.jostimages.com
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