The charming Frenchman Bastien Soles is an example of a person who has thrown a successful business for the sake of ghostly happiness on the seafront and not lost. Today, a former marketing and communications specialist is an internationally recognized Fridailing instructor and a professional underwater photographer, whose account has more than 1000 dives per year. His disciples and models around the world learn from him not to be afraid of the new and learn about the best travel points around the world - with transparent water and unusual flora and fauna. In an interview with Posta-Magazine, Bastient told why he refused urban happiness, as became Frider and why underwater shooting change people for the better.
All throw and leave France
The last 10 years of my life were one long journey with a mass of adventure and new experience. It must be written about this book. This path is my personal pursuit of happiness. From 20 to 30 years I worked hard to earn money and become successful: I had my own business, he brought good money. But no matter how much I earn, I was deeply unhappy. And by 30 years, this feeling has become so strong that I decided to sell everything and leave France in search of happiness. Now I do not miss Nor Paris, nor in France: My dream came true - to be in a quiet place by the sea.
Tie your life with water
Not all immediately developed, but six years ago, Fridaving came to my life. I fell in love with water - literally sank in love for her. And this incredible connection brought me the happiness that I was looking for. Since then, all my decisions, all my classes are associated with water. I became an Fridail Instructor, I created a brand of ethical clothes for freedivers, and to share the beauty of this element, I became an underwater photographer. I spent the most important part of the last six years on a small Thai island: in such places you can live just, no one is doing anything, what is your car, what hours you are rich. People need only a simple life in close connection with nature. And now my life, which used to spit around the ego and money, is love: love for nature and love for water. I used to creative to sell things, now I create to share emotions and beauty. I feel blessed and very grateful: the new profession has changed me at the very depth, discovered the best in my nature.
Shooting under water is not scary
Fridayving and underwater shooting are not difficult and not dangerous, but requires maximum relaxation, mind oddness. Just do not be afraid - remember that you spent 9 months in the water in the womb. But the idea, simple for incarnation in the studio, may be a nightmare in the water: one simple accessory will complicate the shooting at least twice. Therefore, usually with beginner models, I only work with one person and simple pose. If people are more experienced, we can add some objects or complicate the script. Water must be studied, lean.Power of the chamber
I used to give models Basic Fridayving course before shooting, without a camera. After a short time, a person can dive for 30 seconds, but as soon as I take a camera in my hands, the model immediately stands under the water of a minute and a half ... Every time I can not resist laughter when I see the power of the camera over the human lungs.
Curiosity and courage
To be a good freediver and an underwater photographer, it is important to be curious and enough bold. The underwater world is a new area of research in the plan of the image and movement. Running under the water with the camera, I always feel like a child, because I know - it will be magic. There is no such school in which you can become an underwater photographer - you just need to decide what you want to do what no one has previously tried.
Fridailing Center The Bluenery Academy in France
Underwater shooting for me is the ability to share beauty. I am in love with the water, this love gives me more than I could dream, and every time I teach someone, I hope that a person will feel the same. After such filming, people change - and, "released" their mind, they will never be former. That is why I and my business partner Guide Nery, the former world champion in Fridayving and Ambassador Brands Panerai and Moncler, decided to open Villefranches-sur-measures in a wonderful fishing village between Monte Carlo and Nice Center of Fridayving The Bluenery Academy. We want as many people as many people learned something new about themselves through water.
Where to go to underwater shooting?
I like Raffles Maldives, a wonderful place, incredibly transparent water, warm and welcoming, and around there are always sharks, turtles and many fish. In Thailand - Island Tau, if you want to simply relax and discover the underwater world. And if you are interested in a unique experience, go to the Damb of Ratchaprapha (Lake Chez Lan) in the middle of the jungle - away from the whole world. However, the most beautiful in Fridayving is the opportunity to feel like a researcher of the underwater world, and the ocean is so wide that you will always have new places that can be opened for yourself and fall in love with them. Amorgos Island in Greece I love - for the color of water, Lake Barracuda in the Philippines - for the magic of places, Mexican Tulum - for the Satot, for mystical sensations, French Polynesia - for incomparable beauty.
Creative plans
Soon I have to shoot under the ice, and I also conceived two poetic videos with a combination of air and water, darkness and light. I started looking for a ballet dancer who will be ready to master the freediving, and a company that would like to purchase this project.
Details: You can agree on underwater shooting with Bastient by writing it in WhatsApp (+66924607151) or on e-mail [email protected].