Behind the Lens

The photo shown here presented me with several challenges that serve as an excellent teaching tool. The two biggest challenges were composing a pleasing…

Capturing behavioral images is often a process that involves repeated attempts to get your shot. Sometimes that process takes an entire dive. Sometimes days….

When I spotted this yellow-barred jawfish while exploring a rubble area in Triton Bay, in far eastern Indonesia, I stopped to see if a…

Negative space refers to everything in a photograph other than the subject.

Upon first consideration it seems obvious that photographing divers would be a lot easier than photographing wildlife. But first impressions are not always correct,…

The odds are extremely high against you ever seeing the gorgeous 3-inch-long (7.6 cm) fish pictured on this page during a scuba dive. That’s…

Fish faces are favorite subjects for many underwater photographers, but creating compelling fish portraits requires some forethought and the use of the best techniques….

The term muck diving doesn’t sound very appealing. That feeling only gets reinforced when you learn that muck divers spend a lot of time…

There are some subjects I have photographed more times than I can recall, but I still find it impossible to pass them by when…

Underwater photography is considered a gear-intensive endeavor. Few will argue that it takes some time and effort to learn how to use everything from…