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Category Archives: Underwater Photography and Writing

Underwater photography and stories.

We will conserve only what we love…

In the end we will conserve only what we love.  We love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. – Baba Dioum, 1968  

What is the most important life lesson I have learned from my photography?

See The Light, a workshop I am teaching with Dewitt Jones on Molokai has begun, and Dewitt started the week off with a question: What is the most important life lesson you have learned from your photography?  I can think of hundreds of life lessons I have learned from my photography, but one of the lessons [...]

THE SHARK THAT WAS…

The commotion started as soon as I surfaced. “GET ON THE BOAT NOW!” my frantic friends faces yelled at me as I lazily swam towards the swim step “SHARK!”.

THE SHARK THAT WASN’T

For those who have never been underwater with a sea lion, imagine an aquatic puppy that is hyper, curious, gregarious, inquisitive and graceful.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ

My 1985 VW bus was loaded with tanks, camera gear and little red plastic gas cans strapped to the roof that had been inspected with some incredulity by the machine gun toting fedarales in their fatigues and sunglasses.