Walt Stearns, Author at Underwater Journal

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[…]

There is more to captivating portraits of small macro size subjects than just getting it in focused. The real art[…]

Thumbing through a favorite dive magazine, you can’t help but notice that a good number of the feature stories open[…]

Komodo Island is famously known as the home of the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo dragon. A face-to-face meeting with[…]

Catching a mandarinfish courtship in action during a dive on Magic Pier Dive with Wakatobi’s Dive Yacht Pelagian. Sunset was close[…]

High Style Diving in Indonesia’s Wakatobi Regency. The first choice divers face when planning a trip to a “dream destination”[…]

Having the best of the best underwater camera setup money can buy is not the key to getting great mandarinfish[…]

Back when Bonaire became the high point of diving destinations in the Caribbean, there were two man-made structures received a[…]

Encounters with this comically clever species of Indo-Pacific octopus are not only entertaining they also make fantastic photo subjects. Humans[…]

Blackwater photography has become one of the hottest forms of underwater macro photography due to rich and highly varied subject[…]