_Scuba Diving_ Photo Editor reports from the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort

_Scuba Diving_ Photo Editor reports from the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort

_Scuba Diving_ Photo Editor heads to the Backscatter Digital Shootout at the Little Cayman Beach Resort

How did an underwater photographer get this photo of a Pacific black dragonfish (_Idiacanthus antrostomus_)? He was part of a project documenting deep-sea animals found in Monterey Bay, California. Jason Bradley partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Moss Landing Marine Labs to gain special access to both live and collected deep-sea organisms, to reveal what lives in these distant alien habitats.

By using some simple techniques and the right equipment, anyone can capture professional quality images with a compact camera system.

The story behind underwater photographer's Davide Vazzaro's photo of California sheephead in a kelp forest at Casino Point, a dive site off Catalina Island, California.

Though the GoPro camera is a great way to get into underwater videography, a few add-ons will eliminate the guesswork and produce better results.

We talked to the founder of Oceanwide Images Photo Agency about his passion for underwater and wildlife photography

Celebrated underwater photographer Bob Halstead has been diving and taking underwater images since the late 1960s.