Dream Job- Production Photographer for TV’s ‘Shark Men’
Ever thought about your dream job as an underwater photographer? If you’re anything like me, it involves tropical locations, shooting majestic predators, and having it all filmed as part of a National Geographic television show. Photographer Mark Frapwell is living the dream.
Working as a still photographer on the Nat Geo show Shark Men, Frapwell has spent the last two years chronicling the “catch, tag and release” expeditions of the famous shark research vessel. This gig is slightly more exciting than his main job as a portrait photographer.
“It is the most exhilarating and exciting thing I have ever done,” admitted Frapwell, who has shot thousands of Great Whites over the last few years. “It is so intense being in the water with a 4,000-pound great white shark coming at me and no cage for protection”
But it’s not all glamorous for the portrait turned shark photographer.
“On each expedition,” began Frapwell, who will travel to Florida next week to shoot the Shark Men researching Bull and Hammerhead Sharks. “I probably shoot anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 images digitally. It’s shoot, shoot, shoot.”
Ok- maybe it is that awesome.
