About
My Work
I started blowing bubbles in 1967, at the age of ten, when my father rented a two-hose regulator and tank from a gas station/diveshop in the small town of Yucaipa,CA. The influence of Sea Hunt's Mike Nelson and The Silent World of Jacques Cousteau were just too much to ignore. Over the years I've been involved with many types of diving, including instruction, research, and technical sport diving. Somewhere along the line the idea of taking expensive cameras and immersing them in saltwater seemed like a good idea. I've been professionally making images and writing since 1999.Besides saltwater, another ocean intrigues me and that's the California deserts. At first glance there appears to be little in common between the sea and the desert - wet, salty, always in motion versus dry, dusty, and slow to change. But once you get past the seemingly obvious differences it turns out their similarities can be salient.
Published credits include Advanced Diver, AlertDiver, Bike, California Active, Discover Diving, DIVE (UK), Dive Center Business, Dive Training, Fathoms, Outdoor Photographer, Outside (US), Outside(China), Restaurant Startup and Growth, Popular Photography, Scuba Diving, SkinDiver, Sport Diver, Underwater Journal, Underwater Photography, Ventura CountyStar, WineS (Wine...Simplified), Wreck Diving, and X-Ray. Stock imagesrepresented by age fotostock, Image Quest Marine, Pixtal, SeaPics, andWaterframe.
My Full-Length Videos:
Stills and Video Stock Sites:
My U/W Rig
I have spent quite a few years and more than quite a few dollars trying to find the “ultimate” underwater photography system. When I switched to digital in 2003 the thought was now it will be easier – HA!
When I migrated from stills to video some years later the number of options were limited and the results just didn’t stack up. Unlike the still image world, shooting video in RAW was something that took a second mortgage to achieve. Definitely a frustrating time. The video clips all looked like GoPro.
Then along came the Black Magic Micro 4/3rds Cinema Camera. And the underwater powers that be said, “let there be RAW for the common video man (um, person).” No longer was 75,000 somolians needed so you could shoot RAW below the waves.
So, from that point on, I was happy with my clips and I have kept this same system for many years now, which most certainly was not the way it was before.
My primary use is to provide licensing for stock footage.
