tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823421440527892042024-03-13T20:32:06.628-07:00Andy Pearson PhotographyAndy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-62309977523285945842020-02-19T11:59:00.000-08:002020-02-19T11:59:52.697-08:00Urban Marine Wildlife<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 16px;">For the last few years I have been developing a </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">portfolio of </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">underwater images which show the rich UK <span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> <span class="markf8aeed5l3" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life</span> we are lucky to have in close proximity to human populations. </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coastal artificial structures can provide a fantastic habitat for <span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> <span class="markf8aeed5l3" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life</span> to colonise. These urban </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> environments are easily overlooked or difficult to access but can support a surprising amount of <span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> species in some very unexpected places! For example, quay walls, piers and pontoons can be colonised by diverse,<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">colourful</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and sometimes rare <span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> flora and fauna just metres away from bustling industrial ports, busy harbours or waterside offices. Despite working professionally in <span class="markfdp8wfmxu" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marine</span> ecology I have been surprised at how rich these areas can be with highlights including delicate peacock worm communities on the side of piers,<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">colourful</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> mussel and sponge communities on pontoons and dense juvenile jellyfish aggregations next to huge ships in docks. 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Working in estuary environments such as the Solent area is definitely not ideal for underwater photography with poor visibility (due to lots of particles in the water) making it difficult to get often get sharp images. I had to wait for the best conditions possible and work with the conditions available. It took lots of planning to ensure the right conditions and many attempts.<br />
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Several images from this collection were recently featured on the cover and in Hampshire Life and were finalists in Underwater Photographer of the Year .<br />
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<br />Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-77567759530565305302017-10-25T04:43:00.001-07:002017-10-25T04:43:15.347-07:00Jellyfish images used online in the Telegraph and GuardianGood to see my<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> images of jellyfish being used in the Telegraph (12 August 2017) and Guardian (3 October 2017) via Alamy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-20054167364024607162017-10-25T04:30:00.003-07:002017-10-25T04:30:21.020-07:00Snorkelling with grey seals at the Isles of Scilly<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The Eastern Isles are a group of small uninhabited islands within the Isles of Scilly. This summer I headed to the islands to go snorkelling with grey seals. The Eastern Isles hold one of the largest seal colonies in South West England. These seals are used to humans interacting with them in the water and are often very playful and curious. The seals around the Eastern Isles along with a small handful of other colonies in the UK (such as around Lundy Island, the Farne Islands and Skomer Island) are the only colonies in which such interactions with divers and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">snorkellers</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> are a common </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">occurrence</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">. Very stormy weather has prevented me making the journey across on the Scillonian from Penzance earlier in the year. Anyone who has been on the boat previously will know this boat isn't much fun in a storm!</span></span><br />
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-51982023077291712582016-02-09T09:59:00.001-08:002016-02-09T09:59:58.884-08:00Loggerhead Turtle in National Geographic Kids MagazineOne of images of a loggerhead turtle taken in Belize was recently featured on the front cover of National Geographic Kids.<br />
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-80291809231355897722015-09-01T10:04:00.000-07:002016-02-09T10:13:04.508-08:00Coast Magazine ArticleI was really pleased to be interviewed in the September edition of the excellent Coast magazine.The feature was all about my split level photography in the UK. It was a four page spread with a good selection of my images used.<br />
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-53411425238704007002015-08-10T10:19:00.000-07:002016-02-09T10:20:01.724-08:00Are jellyfish going to take over the oceans?Pleased to see my split level image below which was taken at the stunning Kynance Cove, Cornwall used in an interesting article about global increases in jellyfish in our seas. Check it out at:<br />
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<br />Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-50401506768027030542015-07-14T00:09:00.002-07:002015-07-14T00:09:51.206-07:00Photo in The Times<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Following a trip to Cornwall a few weeks ago, I got a split level image of a boat chain and fishing boats in St Ives in the Sunday edition of The Times!</span></span><br />
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-65930468915428987472015-06-25T00:03:00.000-07:002015-07-14T00:04:24.706-07:00Magazine Articles: BBC Wildlife and Land Love Magazine<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">June 2015 was a good month for magazine articles for me with several of my split level rockpool images used in the 100th Special Edition BBC Countryfile Magazine in an article about seashore foraging and my basking shark images used in a Land Love magazine article (via Wildlife Trusts).</span></span></div>
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-79163738183459349332015-04-03T00:02:00.002-07:002015-04-03T00:06:16.389-07:00Underwater Photographer of the Year<br />
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-85012314971740819832014-12-24T06:38:00.001-08:002015-01-02T13:15:56.755-08:00Behind the Shot: Gorging Basking Sharks<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-69567044127681606552014-11-26T12:28:00.002-08:002015-01-02T13:16:29.018-08:00 Dive Photo Guide on Over-Unders in Temperate Waters<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I was really pleased to be asked by Dive Photo Guide Magazine to produce a techniques article on split level 'over under' photography in temperate environments. The article can be seen <a href="http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-techniques/article/over-unders-temperate-waters/" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. The article was focused on highlighting the advantages and challenges of using the technique around temperate coasts. The article also provides practical tips on getting the most of this technique, particularly in shallow tidal p</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">ools which I regularly use for split shots. </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Dive Photo Guide is a comprehensive underwater photography and videography resource and award-winning website with a community of over 50,000 underwater photographers and videographers from around the globe.</span></span></span></div>
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Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-32265353080750484972014-09-03T11:48:00.000-07:002015-01-02T13:11:28.135-08:00Split level images in Daily Mail<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a good selection of split level images in the Daily Mail this week. Check them o<span style="text-align: center;">ut at this </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2741784/Sealife-central-Britains-secret-underwater-life-captured-marine-biologist-using-dramatic-split-level-photographs.html" style="text-align: center;">link.</a> The focus of the images was to try and capture a <span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">selection of split-level images specifically offshore from popular UK holiday spots as people can sometimes be </span><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">unaware of the diverse range of marine life just feet from the shore! Hopefully this might inspire people to venture a bit deeper, even if it’s just a couple feet below the surface. </span></span></div>
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<br />Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-29754119238121834902014-08-13T00:48:00.000-07:002015-01-02T13:10:43.173-08:00Galapagos Penguins<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Snorkeling with penguins was one of the highlights of our trip to the Galapagos and I recently gave the Galapagos Conservation Trust permission to use some of my images on their website.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my underwater manatee shots was picture of the day in the Telegraph this week. The image was taken at Crystal River, Florida. Its an amazing place to view manatees in great visibility conditions. Kings Bay and the headwaters of Crystal River, encompasses more than 70 natural springs which produce a constant flow of 72°F water. Combined with areas of shallow water, the abundance of natural springs provide a winter haven for hundreds of wild manatees. The best time to experience the manatees at the springs is early in the morning as they tend to disperse to the wider area to feed in the afternoon and you also avoid the majority of other tourists. Winter mornings are surprisingly cold in Florida, getting down to only a few degrees Celsius. Once we has stepped out of the warm of the chalet into the frosty dawn conditions, a rapid change into a wetsuits was required! This was defiantly more reminiscent of getting ready for a cold winter surf at one of our local spots in the UK rather than what you expect in the ‘sunshine state’! The manatees were incredibly curious and playful, particularly the young calf's. They would often come right up to our masks and swim all around us, often turning onto their sides for a belly rub!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of New Zealand’s most spectacular encounters with large marine animals can be found at a place called Kaikoura on the South Island. The town is located on a small peninsula where steep, snow capped mountains, worthy of any Peter Jackson movie tower imposingly up from the sea. A deepwater canyon that drops to over one kilometre is located only a few miles from the coast. Upwelling of nutrients from the canyon makes this a highly productive region with species more normally seen way offshore such as sperm whales, wandering albatross, blue sharks and large squid occurring much closer inshore. Kaikoura is also one of the few places in the world where you can snorkel with large pods of dusky dolphins, an opportunity not to be missed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After several days waiting because of unsuitable stormy weather, we finally got the call that the dolphin trip was going ahead. The launching ramp for the trip was about a ten minutes journey from Kaikoura. En route our guide provided us with a little detail about the dusky dolphins and briefed us on how to act around them. We were told that the dusky dolphins can be incredibly inquisitive underwater but only if you keep them interested by making lots of noise and moving around a lot e.g. diving down. The guide explained that ‘if you just float and focus on getting photos they will disappear in seconds!’ The trips use a spotter plane to make it a little easier to locate the dolphins over such a large range. We had good conditions with a glassy sea state and light winds. After about 40 minutes the captain heard over the radio from the plane that a ‘superpod’ (when several smaller pods join together) of over 300 dolphins were moving through the area! The crew of the trip were clearly excited as this news and the boat sped off in the direction of the sighting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hurriedly changed into the thick winter wetsuits and snorkel gear. It wasn't long before we could make out the shape of hundreds of large dorsal fins slicing through the water. Once we were ahead of the dolphins the guide bellowed “go, go, everyone in the water”. Chaos ensued for a few seconds with people throwing themselves overboard in all directions. The bubbles slowly disappeared leaving a blanket of green surrounding us. The water was a much colder than at the Poor Knights Islands. We could hear the clicks and squeals of dolphins communicating. I looked into the abyss below and then around me, but could only see my girlfriend who was also frantically looking around. Moments later another group of dolphins from the pod shot towards us out of the murk. This time we changed our tactics and started to dive down and spin around. The dolphins immediately started to respond to our actions, weaving and dodging around us. Taking shots (and grabbing a breath!) had to be awkwardly done at the same time as undertaking the rather comical looking ‘dolphin dance’! Large groups of as many as ten or fifteen curious individuals would check us out, often for several minutes, before dispersing away. Eventually all the dolphins in the pod passed and were left floating around in the current with only the faint sound of the dolphin calls in the distance. We swam back to the boat and clambered back on board, everyone was shivering but ecstatic from the massive adrenalin buzz.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As dolphin swimming and snorkeling becomes increasingly popular and commercial around the world, the experience we had at Kaikoura, like so much of New Zealand felt refreshingly wild and untamed.</span></div>
Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-70702056859183001902012-11-07T01:22:00.000-08:002015-01-02T13:17:03.099-08:00Behind the Shot: Short-snouted Seahorses<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was helping undertake research on the long-snouted seahorse in Studland Bay, Dorset, with the charity the Seahorse Trust. Seahorses are very rare in the UK, and while they are recorded every summer in Studland Bay, they often remain elusive, typically staying well camouflaged in the dense seagrass beds. It took over an hour of searching a small area where a pair of seahorses was known to be living before we finally found one of them. It was incredibly difficult to see, staying well hidden (causing me to nearly run over it with my fins!). I wanted to get a shot that not only showed the seahorse but also the seagrass habitat they rely on so instead of using a close up 'macro' lens I decided to use a wide angle fisheye lens. This gives a greater field of vision and a deeper depth of field. Seahorses are very sensitive to flash photography, so I also turned my flash off, adjusting the white balance manually to compensate for the loss of red colour which occurs underwater. I carefully positioned my camera a few centimetres from the seahorse to allow it to fill up the frame and took the shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following these successful dives at Studland Bay, my images were used by various charities and scientific reports such as the MCCIP (Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership). </span><br />
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<br />Andy Pearson photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00399109023329639600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-482342144052789204.post-43597177534125243882010-09-07T01:00:00.000-07:002014-11-01T01:01:15.472-07:00Basking shark image in the Guardian<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Image featured as part of a image gallery <span style="line-height: 22px;"> by the Wildlife Trusts about celebrating exciting new finds around Britain as the Marine and Coastal Act</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">, comes into force this week which will give Britain's marine life even greater protection. </span></span><br />
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