Hamlets Courtship Dance
As the sun dips toward the horizon, two blue, palm-sized fish gather at the base of a coral head 25[…]
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Author: Walt Stearns
In addition to publishing his own blog site, UnderwaterJournal.com, Walt Stearns is the Editor for Scuba Diver Magazine’s North American publication. Scuba Diver Magazine is also published in the UK, Australia/New Zealand and Germany which can be accessed online at Divernet.com. You can also visit waltstearns.com to see more of his photographic work.
Roatan’s Coco View Resort
As Close as it Gets to Diving Your Way. The morning’s first dive began at a pleasant wreck called the Mr.[…]
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A Rhinopias Kind of Night in Alor
It was day six of a nine-day trip aboard the dive liveaboard Arenui, and we were back for a night[…]
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Battling Backscatter: Our Underwater Nemesis
The Problem and the Acceptance As underwater photographers, we constantly battle backscatter—that frustrating phenomenon where light from our strobes or[…]
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Red Sea Odyssey – Part 3, Northern Reaches Wrecks & Reefs
To state the overly obvious, the Red Sea is not red—unless, of course, you are referring to the vibrant, mesmerizing[…]
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Red Sea Odyssey Part 2, In-between the North and the South
Following two days diving Daedalus Reef we moved northward to Elphinstone Reef about 22 miles / 35 km east of[…]
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Red Sea Odyssey Part 1 – Into the Deep South
This feature on diving the Red Sea is the first of a three parter that I had originally written for[…]
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Nauticam’s MFO-1: Game-Changer for Macro?
One of the biggest struggles in my macro photography has been getting a sharp, in-focus image of hyperactive subjects, like[…]
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Captivating Marine Life Portraits with CFWA
In my last column, “The Art of Captivating Macro Portraits,” I touched on some of my techniques to capture macro[…]
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Striped Marlin of Magdalena Bay
The morning hunt began under clear skies, with a light ocean chop and a north wind. Resting on the boat[…]
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