Product Description

This pioneering new volume of underwater photography reveals the coral reefs of the world as you have never seen them before, through revolutionary natural-light filter photography and a marine biologist's revelatory understanding of reef life behaviour. A marine scientist by training, Alex Mustard captures the natural behaviour of marine life that many divers miss. In this remarkable volume, he unveils a life-long fascination with the real lives of reef animals. Perpetually surprising, the unique images range from reefs from all around the world, including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Pacific, South-east Asia, Caribbean. To his peers, Alex Mustard's name has become synonymous with the new digital techniques that he has developed, and he leads the way in the use of filters in available light shooting and shooting telephoto lenses underwater.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160104 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-25
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Review
"'This is the best book about diving since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World, Alex has a unique eye - this is dynamic underwater imagery at its best' --- David Doubilet Photographer-in-Residence National Geographic Magazine

'This publication marks Mustard's arrival as an underwater snapper of international importance - one of just two Brits whose work is admired all over the world.' --DIVE Magazine"

Good Book Guide
`Breathtakingly beautiful photographic celebration of the world's coral reefs'

Dive Magazine, review
A coffee-table book with brains as well as beauty

Customer Reviews

I love Fish
I love books about fish. There is always the mystery of mermaids about where they live. The book is beautiful with pictures you can fall into. Pictures of bizarre fish, some gem like fish, some look as though they were designed by Ikea and others look hand knitted! Always very interesting.

Wonderful Photographs
This is a wonderful coffee table book, full of glossy colour photos of the undersea world. There are amazing pictures of tiny creatures and corals, interspersed with the usual shark images. I was particularly impressed with the author's introductory essay which supplies insight into why he captures the images he does and makes the reader more aware of how fragile our reef ecosystems are.
All schools should have a copy of this book in their school library.