David Doubilet is an incredibly well-known and celebrated photographer whose interest in capturing photos underwater started when he was eight. His interest transformed into a full-blown passion for seascape photography while working as a dive instructor in the Bahamas. The limits of the equipment he had drove him to invent the split-lens camera, a device that allows the user to take pictures above and below water simultaneously. His unorthodox methods of underwater photography have earned him several awards and more than sixty stories on National Geographic.
Doubilet's ability to take a theme as generic as seascapes and transform it through ingenuity into something truly his own is something I aspire to attain for myself. His pictures come the closest I've seen to expressing just how magnificent and mysterious the undersea world really is.
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