From a young age, I played in the Pacific Ocean, surfing, scuba diving, then conducting research, photographing and filming in and on the water. As a research dive instructor at UC Berkeley, now as a volunteer research diver and board member of a shark research and conservation NGO (MigraMar.org), I try to get in the ocean to film and photograph whenever I can. I hope to connect people viscerally to the beauty and tragedy I see in the water.
Dove to 174 feet on Japanese WW II shipwrecks at Truk Lagoon in Micronesia. Climbed a 16,500 foot volcano named Tungurahua in Ecuador, Love photographing experiences in rice farming villages in Malaysia, snow covered peaks in Nepal, and livestock markets in the Andes.
Quotes
“The diversity of life forms, so numerous that we have yet to identify most of them, is the greatest wonder on this planet.”
― E. O. Wilson
"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
― E.O. Wilson
I photograph, film and write about the magic and beauty in our oceans, but also the tragedies taking place today.
