Alert Diver Category : Imagerie

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEND ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF TIME, energy, and money pursuing subjects. We often select our dive destinations with specific subjects in mind. Sharks or manta rays …

In the opening chapter of The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs, his acclaimed combination coffee table book and coral reef reference guide, Richard Smith, PhD, recalls his six months of shore diving and research in 2007 at the Wakatobi reefs in Indonesia.

MORNING STAR I shot this image at Lissenung Island, Papua New Guinea, a few years ago for the island dive I owe my career to this humble little stinger. My images of these thumb-sized siphonophores have graced city billboards to advertise cameras, been plastered on the sides of buses to spread the word of London […]

In 1992 I received a call from Graeme Ferguson, a co-founder of IMAX Corporation, that changed the course of my career.

OUR UNDERWATER WORLD IS FULL OF VIBRANT COLORS, interesting patterns and textures, and fascinating creatures. It’s a wild place that is unpredictable and simultaneously harsh and harmonious. Taking a camera into that world allows us to record snippets of beauty in ways that help us tell various stories. Learning to use your camera effectively takes […]

Most blackwater divers agree it only takes one good dive to hook you. The idea of jumping off a boat at night, miles from shore, with only a few lights to guide your way might sound terrifying, but the experience is unlike anything our imaginations could conjure.

Mon activité de traiteur en Californie se portait bien, mais plus elle se développait, plus j'étais stressé et plus j'avais envie d'être sous l'eau. La plongée et la photographie étaient cathartiques, et je revenais sans cesse à Anilao dans mon esprit.

Capturer de belles images de baleines est l’une des expériences photographiques les plus gratifiantes pour un photographe sous-marin. Ces créatures majestueuses et charismatiques suscitent l’émerveillement, et le temps passé avec elles reste inoubliable. Cependant, leur environnement, leur taille impressionnante et leur nature fuyante présentent certains défis.

LES ANCESTAIRES DES TORTUES DE MER MODERNES ont partagé les océans avec les ichtyosaures et les plésiosaures à la fin du Jurassique, il y a 150 millions d'années. Leurs descendants peuplent aujourd'hui les récifs et les océans du monde entier.

David Doubilet said it first and best. “He uses boundless imagination and a keen eye to peel back the surface and expose a world that is beautiful, bizarre, and wonderfully unexpected,” Doubilet said about Alex Kirkbride’s remarkable underwater photographic journey through all 50 states for his book American Waters.