Photographer of the Week – Shane Wiese

A traditional shark portrait of a Caribbean reef shark, California, USA

 

While numerous California’s shoreline is well-known for diving, San Diego needs to be very close to the highest by way of high quality and variety of marine life. Shane Wiese grew up in San Diego, not sure of what he wished to do along with his life—till a visit to Maui at age 18 modified all the pieces. While exploring the island, he randomly walked right into a pictures gallery and was so impressed by the pictures that he instantly knew he wished to pursue pictures. Upon returning house, he purchased his first digital camera, a Pentax, and started instructing himself the craft.

Shane’s preliminary focus was on panorama pictures, however in 2011, he took up scuba diving—an expertise that but once more reworked his inventive course. He bought his first underwater digital camera setup, a Nikon D800E in a Nauticam housing, and rapidly turned captivated by the world of underwater pictures. In the years since, Shane has traveled extensively, photographing marine life wherever and every time potential. While dwelling in California, he focused on macro pictures attributable to restricted visibility for wide-angle photographs. He typically dove at Point Loma and La Jolla Shores, favourite dive spots for locals, particularly these keen on nudibranchs and sea slugs.

Despite his love for macro, Shane’s dream was at all times to dwell someplace tropical with heat waters, the place he might focus extra on wide-angle pictures and bigger marine animals like sharks. During the COVID pandemic, he left his job and started engaged on a dive boat to achieve extra in-water expertise. After that endeavor, he moved to Oahu and labored on a number of boats, finally coaching as a security diver for a shark snorkel operation. Ultimately, Shane relocated to Florida, the place he presently lives and dives.

Today, Shane works on a neighborhood shark diving boat, permitting him to specialise in shark pictures. Still, he often misses the macro topics he as soon as photographed in California—and who is aware of, possibly in the future he’ll return!

 

The solar displays brilliantly off a freediver’s masks within the cenotes, Mexico

 

A tiger shark portrait in black and white, Florida, USA

 

A Mola mola, or ocean sunfish, cruises just under the sunlit floor far offshore California, USA

 

Green sea turtles attain the northernmost extent of their Pacific vary in southern California, USA

 

A freediver explores a kelp forest off San Diego, California, USA

 

California’s most iconic nudibranch species, the Spanish scarf, California, USA

 

A prehistoric trying sevengill shark passes overhead within the kelp, California, USA

 

A small pod of spinner dolphins blasts previous the digital camera, Hawaii, USA

 

A shock go to from an awesome white shark within the shallows! California, USA

 

A spectacular cockscomb nudibranch feasting on eggs, California, USA

 

A inexperienced sea turtle chowing down on tasty seaweed at sundown, California, USA

 

A spearfisher explores a spectacular coral reef, Indonesia

 

A beautiful little Polycera species, a typical sight in southern California, California, USA

 

To see extra of Shane’s unbelievable underwater work, please give him a comply with on Instagram.