David Salvatori Photography

18/06/2022

1 min 30 secs of beautiful critters from Adriatic Sea

https://vimeo.com/721727384 for high-quality view

17/06/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #21: ANOTHER NUDI IN MY COLLECTION - OF COURSE FROM NUMANA, THE ITALIAN LEMBEH!

Another nudibranch that I saw this year for the first time - Trinchesia morrowae, here laying a huge ribbon of eggs
Aa usual, helped crucially to get the good shot by my friend MArco Giuliano
Another fantastic, colorful critter from the fantastic treasure chest of Numana sea bottoms.
Numana, the Italian Lembeh!!

07/06/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #21: BACK TO NUMANA, THE ITALIAN LEMBEH!

And here we are again.....another two weeks in Numana, with my beloved friends of Centro Sub Monte Conero and my brother Marco Giuliano!

As usual, Marco was my personal guide, dedicating to me all the experience, skills and knowledge gained with a life of diving in Numana. The result is another set of unique shots, that would have been impossible without his help, and that goes into the wider collection of fantastic shots that I have captured in the last years.
With such a kind of invaluable material, thoughts are rising to use them for a work, joining them with the shots that Marco also got in the last years. For now, it's only an idea...we will see if this will become feasible!

In the shot, another subject that I have neither seen nor photographed before, Elysia viridis sea slug on Ulva rigida algae. Another fantastic, colouful opisthobranch gastropod mollusc from the fantastic treasure chest of Numana sea bottoms.

Numana, the Italian Lembeh!!

26/05/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #20: ANIMAL THE DRUMMER (THE MUPPET'S SHOW)

A typical, very common Mediterranean subject, the Serpula vermicularis (commonly known as calcareous tubeworm, fan worm, plume worm, red tube worm etc...) that I never shoot for several reasons, first of all because the tend to retract very quickly inside the operculum covering the entrance of the calcareous tube as soon as you get close to them. And for a photographer, this is quite annoying!
Anyway, they are very nice and colorful subjects, and in this case this specimen soon attracted my attention, because it was recalling to me Animal, the wild and frenzied monster drummer of the fictional band "Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem" from The Muppet Show! So funny! So I decided to try to take a picture of it, and interestingly enough it was really collaborating, not retracting in the tube and allowing me to take several shots of it!

10/05/2022

Il mio libro "SCATTI SOMMERSI" è ora disponibile su Amazon ed i principali store online (Mondadori/Feltrinelli/etc...). Qui sotto i link.

My book "SCATTI SOMMERSI" is now available on Amazon and the main online stores (Mondadori/Feltrinelli/etc...). Links are posted here below.

https://www.mondadoristore.it/Scatti-sommersi-maestri-David-Salvatori/eai978886649031/

https://www.lafeltrinelli.it/scatti-sommersi-maestri-della-fotosub-libro-david-salvatori/e/9788866490319

https://www.libraccio.it/libro/9788866490319/david-salvatori/scatti-sommersi-maestri-della-fotosub-italiana-ediz-illustrata-vol-5-salvatori-david.html

https://www.amazon.it/marketing-Strategie-subacqueo-nellambiente-competitivo/dp/8866490318/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=%22scatti+sommersi%22&qid=1652194908&sr=8-5

Il mio incontro con l’acqua, avvenuto circa 15 anni fa, è stato folgorante, e segna una linea di demarcazione fra la mia prima e la mia seconda vita. Oggi riesco a sentirmi pienamente me stesso solo quando sono sott’acqua. La fotografia subacquea mi permette di esplicitare e testimoniare questo...

06/05/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #19: TWO HEARTS AND A (GARBAGE) HUT

Another great night dive in the Strait of Messina, with my friend Filippo, Filippo e Domy. This is the time of the year where butterfly blennies begin brooding their eggs in the nest, and they adapt to use everything as a nest.
Here, this couple used an aluminium can as their nest, giving a great example of how wildlife adapts to anthropization and how garbage can "help" life to thrive

26/04/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #18: TRAIN OF LOVE 💕

In the picture, you can see an aggregation of tunicates Salpa fusiformis in the reproduction phase. Together with Salpa Maxima, Salpa fusiformis tunicate is the most common in the Mediterranean seas in the order of the Salpidae. It prefers to live in the open sea and spends most of the day very deep to a depth of 800 meters, then it returns to the surface during the night. Due to winds and currents, it can get close to the shore. Its way of moving is truly characteristic, it pumps water through its body and filters it to block the phytoplankton that it usually eats.
Salps are considered multicellular animals, they reproduce rapidly and are able to double their number several times a day. These organisms are hermaphrodites, that is, they have both male and female s*x, so that the individual can act in copulation as both male and female.
Sometimes it is possible to see specimens of Salpa fusiformis along the entire Mediterranean Sea aggregated in large schools of its kind, composing a sort of train called "the little train of love". During the s*xual phase, in fact, very long chains are formed by the perfect alignment of the salps, which are arranged in a row, one behind the other, this chain is called blastozooid.
During this period, males release various spermatozoa into the water which enter the females, fertilizing them. After giving birth, all the specimens in the row transform into males, so that they can fertilize again. After the production of spermatozoa, the males, due to the effort, all die, but the number of the species does not suffer because after a few days, especially if the waters are particularly warm, they will be replaced by the newborn.

16/04/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #17: BECAUSE THE NIGHT!! (RETURNING THE FAVOUR)

Night dive with my great friend borghi in the Strait of Messina, now it's his turn to model for me, giving a nice depth of field feeling to the dull and dark background! thanks my friend!

11/04/2022

My book "Scatti Sommersi" vol. 5 - published by Magenes Editoriale is available for purchase, cost 20 euros + shipment.

It's my underwater story from 2009 to today, in 172 pages and 73 photos.

You can request it directly from me if you want it with my inscription, or you can buy it on the main online bookstores.

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Il mio libro "Scatti Sommersi" vol. 5 - Magenes Editoriale è disponibile per l'acquisto, costo 20 euro + s.s.

La mia storia subacquea dal 2009 ad oggi in 172 pagine e 73 foto.

Potete richiederlo direttamente a me se lo volete con la dedica, oppure lo troverete sulle principali librerie online.

09/04/2022

MEDITERRANEAN VIEWS - issue #16: DEEP BENTHOS

Dendrophyllia ramea shot today in the Strait of Messina, -56 mt, 90 min dive, 56 min decompression time