Professional and Amateur Underwater Photography Galleries :: DivePhotoGuide.com

Michel Gilbert
Award-winning lecturer, author and photographer Michel has been "at sea" for over 30 years. Author of more than 500 articles related to diving, travel and sailing, he co-authors, with partner Danielle Alary, the underwater photography columns of Diver Magazine, the longest established scuba diving magazine in North America and En Profondeur ("Into the Depths") magazine. His work is sold worldwide by agencies. Recipient of the Canadian Diving Achievement Award in 1991 and the Diver of the Year Award for the Arts at Beneath the Sea in New-York, in 1995, Michel also won the Silver Diver Award at the Antibes World Festival of Underwater Ima More...

Maurine Shimlock
Maurine has meshed her love for the ocean environment with her passions for photography and writing. Honored internationally, her work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, and films. Believing that words and images are secondary to the experience of being "out there", Maurine (with her husband, Burt Jones) has pioneered some of the dive community's most popular destinations including the Solomon Islands and Komodo National Park. An avid marine naturalist, she has dived with the world's leading ichthyologists and provided images for leading scientific journals. From June, 2008 Maurine will be based in Bali in order to work on her curre More...

Burt Jones
Burt has been an underwater explorer for forty years and an image maker for twenty. His work has taken him around the world on assignments as diverse as photographing the planet's longest underwater cave in Mexico and nesting sea snakes on a tiny island near Borneo. Although his photographs and book, Secret Sea, have won numerous international awards, Burt believes that the images are secondary to the experience. Photography is the means by which he (along with his wife, Maurine Shimlock) is able to spend most of his time on tropical reefs pioneering new dive destinations. From June, 2008 Burt will be based in Bali in order to fulfill his More...

Michele Hall
Michele's work in film production began in 1991 when she retired from a 19-year career as a pediatric nurse. In addition to taking underwater still photographs and authoring a children's book on sharks, she has co-produced 7 internationally broadcast, award winning, one-hour natural history marine wildlife television documentary films, including "Shadows in a Desert Sea" for the PBS series Nature (1992), the National Geographic Special "Jewels of the Caribbean" (1994), and the 5-part PBS series "Secrets of the Ocean Realm" (1997). In 2003 Michele produced "Shark Mountain" for the PBS series Nature and in 2004 she produced a film for the Toky More...

Howard Hall
Howard Hall has been on the masthead of several magazines including Roving Editor for International Wildlife Magazine and Senior Associate Editor for Ocean Realm Magazine. His photographs and/or articles have been widely published in magazines including Life, Natural History Magazine, National Geographic, GEO, London Illustrated News, and BBC Wildlife. He has authored several books including Sharks, Dolphins, The Kelp Forest, Successful Underwater Photography, and Secrets of the Ocean Realm. Howard has directed many television films including a National Geographic Special and three episodes of the PBS series Nature. Working with his wife, More...

Martin Edge
Mentor, coach, facilitator, educator. Whichever words are used to describe him, there is no doubt that Martin Edge is one of the most experienced and gifted instructor of underwater photography there is. His latest book 'The Underwater Photographer – Digital and Traditional Techniques' was published in April 2006 and has taken the underwater photographic world by storm. Numerous reviews claim the book to be the best published on this particular topic to date. The 4th translation of this book (in Russian) will be released in May 2008. "Whilst I am stimulated by numerous aspects of picture taking, my passion is to help others improve and More...

Ralph Clevenger
Ralph Clevenger grew up on the coast of North Africa and began diving in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea at the age of 7 with his father. He eventually went on to study zoology at San Diego State University and worked as a diver/biologist for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California before attending the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He holds a BS degree in zoology and a BA degree in photography. Ralph went on to work as an associate with renowned nature photographer George Lepp and in 1983 was offered a teaching position at Brooks Institute. He teaches courses in Stock Photography, Video Prod More...

Thomas Peschak
Thomas P. Peschak is a photographer, marine biologist and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. For more than 10 years he has dedicated his life to photographing, researching and documenting Africa's wildest oceans and most remote coastlines. His images have garnered many awards, including wins at the prestigious BBC-Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the Fuji Photographic Awards and a Palm d'or (Portfolio) at the Festival Image Sous Marine 2007 (World Festival of Underwater Pictures) in Antibes - France. His photographs and features have appeared in publications such as BBC Wildlife, Africa Geographic, GEO, Fathoms an More...

Kirk Weddle
Kirk Weddle photographs enticing imagery for editorial, advertising and corporate clients all over the world, including Coca-Cola, Toshiba, Microsoft, Geffen Records, Rolling Stone, and Maxim. Kirk shoots environmental portraits on location, in-studio and underwater. Kirk also shot the iconic Nirvana underwater album cover. More of Kirk's work can be found at www.kirkweddle.com. More...

Andre Crone
Award winning photo journalist Andre Crone started diving when he was 24 years old. He bought his first underwater camera as soon as he got his first diving license. He started his production company Elysia Productions four years ago together with his wife Eveline. This combination proved to be successful. Andre creates the images and Eveline writes the articles that are published in many of the big diving magazines all over the world. Andre's images have been published in Fathoms Magazine, Unterwasser and BBC Wildlife Magazine just to name a few. He has a slight preference for cold water diving. Just because he believes pictures made More...

Candice
Whether shooting on dry land or underwater, Candice manages to produce breathtaking images that are dramatic and startlingly unique. In the highly competitive fields of fashion and advertising there is a compelling need to be original and daring, and few have risen to this challenge with quite so much style as Candice. Despite the fact that Candice is now firmly established as one of the most exciting and original photographers around, she has always taken time to combine her commercial work with personal projects, which she finds moves her on into new areas and sets her fresh challenges. Over the past couple of years her time has lar More...

Justin Lewis
Justin grew up diving off the Mendocino coast in Northern California. After a childhood of diving being underwater became a way of life and a means of income. He now lives and works out of San Francisco and shoots professionally world wide for a variety of clients More...

Annie Crawley
Annie Crawley has lived and worked around the world for the past 15 years from Indonesia to Galapagos, Belize to Papua New Guinea. Originally from Chicago, Annie now lives in Santa Barbara CA. Annie works as a producer, photographer, dive instructor, captain and educator. Her work has been published in magazines, Museums, Aquariums and environmental institutions worldwide. Her personal mission: "To educate and create entertaining multi-media programs to stimulate and educate the world into protecting our oceans." Annie's recent work includes, Ocean Life from A to Z a book/dvd created with Reader's Digest Children's Book; Dive Into Your More...

Brian Skerry
Brian Skerry began his career as a teenager, photographing subjects in the waters of his native New England. Today, his nearly year-round assignment schedule has him traveling to all corners of the globe, pursuing underwater images and stories. A National Geographic Magazine photographer, Brian.s impressive body of work, which includes 9 feature stories in NGM, has shed light on the natural history of marine species and ecosystems ranging from those beneath arctic ice to remote tropical reefs. His recent passion is turning the spotlight unto some of the most serious and pressing environmental issues facing our oceans.
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Marty Snyderman
Residing in Solana Beach, CA, Marty Snyderman is the Marine Life Editor for Dive Training Magazine and the long time author of the magazine¹s What¹s That, Behind The Lens, and Always Learning columns. He is also an Emmy Award winning cinematographer, still photographer, author and speaker specializing in issues concerning marine wildlife and the marine environment. His still photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines, and his work has been used by aquaria around the world. Marty also teaches seminars in underwater photography and digital workflow around the country and in dive destinations around the world. Marty serves on the B More...

Aaron Wong
Aaron Wong has been fascinated by the beautiful world beneath the waves since young. As a commercial and fashion photographer for the past decade, he has shot for countless magazines, covers, celebrities and Ads. His clients include Levis, Elle, and international celebrities like Gong Li and Mandy Moore. Underwater photography was therefore a natural progression. He began shooting actively since he got his first underwater camera in 2001 and now has several awards to his name. Based in Singapore, he now divides his time between studio work and exploring the tropical waters of Asia. His pictures and articles have appeared in dive publications More...

David Haas
David Haas is a professional underwater photographer who began diving in 1970 and shot his first underwater photos in 1972. He became a scuba instructor in 1977 and after owning a dive store from 1985-1989 began to exclusively concentrate on photography and dive travel. He is a frequent contributor to the Divers Alert Network magazine; Alert Diver and licences photo uses to other publications and advertising venues. Published in Skin Diver, Sport Diver, Cousteau Publications and numerous newspapers, David is continually pushing the digital envelope with unique visions. The odd and unusual plus digital illustrations are his main photographic i More...

Henri Eskenazi
Henri Eskenazi is a professional photographer with over 50 000 images from 140 different countries all over the world. He works as a free-lance photo-journalist for several magazines and teaches underwater photography at the French Federation of Diving. He has been president of judging at famous underwater photography festivals and competitions including Antibes, Strasbourg, Juan-les-pins, Marseille in France, Monaco, Malta, Istanbul and Tachov. He is now releasing his 4th book, which has 400 pages and 2,000 photos of 80 diving destinations. Henri Eskenazi.s photography is his own way to share his curiosity, happiness and pleasure to others. More...

Tony White
Tony White is a full time professional underwater photographer. Originally living in SE London he now resides in Cape Town South Africa where he carries out most of his work. His journey to underwater photography started some 39 years ago when he joined the Royal Navy and trained as a photographer. In those days work was anything from detailed technical defect work on nuclear submarines to aerial photography from the back seat of a harrier jump jet. After 17 years he left the navy and spent five years in commercial and industrial photography. Eventually giving up photography as the journey had run its course, he spent time working for both Fu More...

Andre Seale
Andre Seale has been photographing underwater environments and marine life since 1993, while pursuing his bachelor degree in marine biology, followed by a Ph.D. in comparative endocrinology. As a research scientist, author, freelance photographer and avid world traveler, Andre has made his base living in Brazil, Australia, South Korea, Florida and Hawaii over the last 15 years. Andre has participated in numerous scientific and photographic expeditions to tropical islands and atolls where besides photography he engages in surveying and monitoring marine life. Andre's images have been featured in hundreds of publications in over 50 countrie More...

Jeremy Cuff
Jeremy Cuff is a regularly published diving/underwater and travel photojournalist based in Warminster (Wiltshire) in the southwest of the UK. He is the 2007 winner of the Sport Diver Underwater Photographer of the Year Award. Jeremy started diving in 1996 and became seriously interested in underwater photography with the purchase of a Nikon F100/Subal housing combination in 2002. Since then, together with his wife Amanda who is also a diver and underwater photographer, he has developed his skills and knowledge by traveling to many superb diving destinations including the Bahamas, Bonaire, Egypt, Sulawesi, Australia, Madagascar, Dominica, Flor More...

Alex Kirkbride
Alex Kirkbride is an award-winning photographer with an international following. His water images have been exhibited in England, Italy and the United States, included in private collections, appeared on numerous covers worldwide and been published in the most respected journals such as National Geographic, Vogue and the New York Times to name but a few. Alex began to develop his style 25 years ago while working as a divemaster in the Bahamas at the Rum Cay Club, Rum Cay, before becoming an assistant to the well-known photographer Albert Watson in New York City. Since he began his own business in 1991, Alex has been included in the book "O More...

Jeff Yonover
In 2003, Jeff took the leap from his stable position in the family business, to pursue his dream of "going pro" and has never looked back. Jeff has dived and photographed in some of the worlds finest underwater locales, including Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Mexico, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saba, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Thailand, Tonga, Yap, and many Caribbean locations. In 2004, Jeff's underwater work began to be recognized internationally, as a finalist in the digital category of Celebrate the Sea Marine Imagery Festival in Malaysia, and the 1st Prize Winner for Colour Prints in the 2004 World Festi More...

Jurgen Freund
Lured by the challenge of marine wildlife photography, Jurgen Freund acquired an underwater camera even before learning how to scuba-dive in 1981 in the cold lakes of Germany. He answered "the call of the sea" and became a full-time international freelance marine photographer in 1995. Jurgen travels all over the world, taking acclaimed pictures published in numerous international magazines and exhibitions worldwide. A storyteller at heart, Jurgen likes showing photo stories about animals and people, working slow and letting nature or events unfold and capturing these in its natural manner. His engineering background comes in handy whenever More...

Ned Deloach
Ned DeLoach is co-author with Paul Humann of nine marine life identification books including the three-volume Caribbean Reef Set. A veteran of 40 years of underwater adventure Ned has also written Reef Fish Behavior, 11 editions of Diving Guide to Underwater Florida, and is co-author of Reef Fish Identification â€“ Tropical Pacific. When not traveling the world diving, Ned and his wife Anna makes their home in Jacksonville, Florida. More...

Tim Calver
Tim Calver is a freelance photographer who lives in Miami Beach, Florida. He developed his career and his unique style at the Bimini Biological Field Station on South Bimini Island in the Bahamas, where he lived and worked for 6 years. It was on this small island, surrounded by biologists, that Tim found his passion in sharks, research, freediving and blue Bahamian skies. Tim was the recipient of the 2002 Our World Underwater Scholarship Society National Geographic Ford Fellowship for underwater photographers. His images have appeared in publications such as Time Magazine, Caribbean Travel & Life, Scuba Diving Magazine, National Geogr More...

Matthew Meier
Matthew Meier is a freelance photographer living in San Diego, CA. He has been diving since the mid 90's and shooting professionally since completing his coursework towards a Masters degree in Photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. He shoots both underwater and commercial subjects. His work has been published in and for Professional Jeweler, Dwell Magazine, Impressions, NANPA Showcase 2006, The Ocean Channel, The National Marine Sanctuary, The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, ThankYouOcean.org and Timothy Meier Jewelry Design. Matthew's photography has been exhibited at the International Photography Hall More...

Glen Cowans
Glen Cowans is a professional underwater photographer from Western Australia. He developed his passion for the ocean and all that it holds through the unique glimpses of the underwater world afforded by Cousteau, Doubilet and other inspiring pioneers from that era. He began photographing underwater in 1995 and won The Australasian Underwater Photographer of the Year Award in the Novice Category in 1998. Late 2004, his wife Louise, enthusiastic dive buddy and underwater videographer, persuaded Glen to have an exhibition of works showcasing his passion and unique style of underwater photography. In March 2005 the Western Australian Maritime Mus More...

Danielle Alary
Award-winning, lecturer, author, photography and multimedia producer, Danielle has been involved in diving for over 25 years. She has co-authored with partner Michel Gilbert more than 500 articles related to diving, travel and sailing. She also co-authors the underwater photography columns Diver Magazine, the longest established scuba diving magazine in North America and En Profondeur (“Into the Depths”) magazine. Her works are sold by agencies worldwide. Danielle was the recipient of the Diver of the Year Award for the Arts at Beneath the Sea in New-York, in 1995. In 1997, as the co-producer and director, she won the Silver Diver Award at t More...