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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[…]

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 Macro Portraits than just capturing a macro size subject. The real art behind a captivating[…]

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

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

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

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[…]

When implemented properly, the technique of using a camera’s slow shutter speed paired with its Rear Curtain Sync mode can[…]

The poem Whales Weep Not! by D.H. Lawrence begins like this: “They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the[…]