Posted by New month, new topic here on Photo Synthesis: underwater photography.
For the next four weeks I will be presenting photos of marine invertebrates and fishes from warm water locations around the world. These photos are the product of what has been, for me, a long journey of discovery — about the sea, about marine life, and about photography.
My photos are documentary in nature, rather than works of art. That is not to say that I don’t strive for a certain level of eye appeal, but my purpose always has been to record which creatures live where, what they look like in their natural environment, and how they behave.
I photograph behaviors related to feeding and reproduction, and I like to find and photograph animals in their various developmental stages. When I can, I record interactions among conspecifics, as well as creatures’ relations with other species, e.g., predation, defense, commensalism, and so on. In short, I document creatures as they go about the business of living.
Since I live in Hawaii, I think of the central Pacific as my home waters, but I am fortunate to have lived in several different countries over the years. That afforded me opportunities to spend time exploring a number of different underwater domains to an extent not possible on, say, a week-long dive trip. Thus, over the next four weeks you will see photos from the Pacific, the Celebes Sea, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.
As we go along, I will discuss some of the ins and outs entailed in the process of underwater photography. I invite readers to use the comments section to ask questions about either my photo techniques or the subjects (or both!), and I will do my best to answer.
I hope you all enjoy this Underwater August.
Image: Two-bar Anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus), Red Sea
August 3, 2009
August 3, 2009
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September 8, 2009