Photographer of the Week – Jono Allen

A searching striped marlin eyes a baitball within the wealthy waters of Baja, Mexico

 

Our newest DPG Photographer of the Week is an Australian underwater photographer and filmmaker, environmental scientist, freedive teacher, and journey chief who’s keen about bringing individuals nearer—actually and figuratively—to the ocean’s largest and most charismatic animals. Armed along with his DSLR and RED digital camera methods, he has spent 1000’s of hours within the water capturing all the pieces from sharks and marlin to sea lions and whales. His adventures have taken him from the well-known reefs of his house nation to the world’s big-animal hotspots, together with Mexico, the Azores, Kenya, the Maldives, Indonesia, Fiji and Tonga.

But Jono doesn’t solely work together with the planet’s marine megafauna with a tank on his again. For him, the expertise of exploring the underwater world on a single breath was life altering. It led to numerous hours honing his freediving capabilities in addition to a dedication to skilled coaching that now permits him to cross these abilities onto others. As a frontrunner of expeditions particularly aimed toward creating face-to-face encounters, he’s keen about growing the power to work together with marine life safely and respectfully.

Having witnessed firsthand the damaging impacts of human exercise on the lives of his beloved massive animals, Jono is deeply dedicated to defending our oceans. After serving to to rescue an entangled whale shark within the Maldives, he co-founded the Fuvahmulah Marine Foundation to handle plastic air pollution and wildlife entanglement on the island. He can be co-founder of the Miyaru Programme, a Maldivian non-profit group bringing collectively scientists, conservationists, and group members to review, doc, and shield the shark populations of the Maldives and surrounding waters.

 

Māhina, the all-white humpback whale of Vava’u, Tonga, rests gently on the podium of her supportive mom

 

Sleeping juvenile sperm whales completely suspended within the shallows subsequent to a sleek synchronized swimmer

 

An grownup humpback whales makes hanging bubble trails with its monumental pectoral fins

 

A leopard shark exhibits off its hanging aesthetic within the deep at Nguthungulli, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia

 

Hunting amidst the chaos, California sea lions herd up the baitballs in a feeding frenzy

 

Sky shark: A single blacktip reef shark cruises the blue water shallows of the Maldives

 

A humpback lastly reaches the breeding grounds of Vava’u Tonga, the place lush inexperienced islands and crystal-blue waters meet

 

Two remoras maintain on tight to a sperm whale fluke earlier than it begins its deep descent into the abyss

 

The largest fish within the ocean approaches head on within the blue waters of Tonga

 

While the adults deep beneath hunt for the subsequent meal, day care with the playful calves and juveniles commences on the floor

 

A big pod of melon-headed whales bow experience a dhoni within the Madlives as collectively all of them head out to seek for their subsequent meal

 

Every so typically, curious whales will give us the possibility to trade deep eye contact, an expertise that leaves you speechless

 

In the waters of the Maldives, a solitary oceanic whitetip searches for its subsequent meal

 

A playful humpback whale calf breaks the floor and catches the morning gentle

 

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For extra of Jono’s breathtaking big-animal pictures, take a look at his web site, www.jonoallen.com, and provides him a observe on Instagram.