Join us for Septembers Forum presentation preceeded by Members Gallery.

Taking pictures in an often harsh environment can be challenging and require mastering multiple skills.  Neither expensive DSLR cameras nor the human body were designed to function under eighty feet of sea water.  Nonetheless, with a little practice and knowledge of the equipment, photographic options are available--of course, this includes getting safely back to dry land to download your images.  Stan's presentation, Underwater Photography: A Technophile Dream or Nightmare?, will take you on an underwater photographic adventure.

Like many club members, work always got in the way of photography for Stan.  Four years ago, his wife convinced him that it was time to call it quits after 35 years of medicine.  So, they left the comfortable confines of the U.S. and moved to the island of Curacao in the former Dutch Antilles.  Part of the decision to move to Curacao was based on Stan's lifelong interest in tropical reef ecology, diving and underwater photography.  He spent the next three years in the water with his camera. 

Stan became certified in scuba in 1974 and actually took some underwater shots that year.   When time allowed, nature photography became a serious hobby with vacations often spent, at least partly, underwater.  Now back in the U.S., Stan is refocusing on land photography.  Yet, underwater trips are always on his horizon.