One of my favorite photographers is Nicholas Samaras. I'm able to appreciate his photography because the majority of it is taken underwater - not exactly an easy thing to do. There are few famous photographers who do underwater photography because it's not an easy thing to do. He's diving deep into oceans regularly taking pictures of creatures that the majority of the world has never seen, which is what I really like about him, it's rare to see a picture of something that you have never even seen before. Frankly, underwater creature kind of scare the crap out of me, but I think that might make me like his pictures more. Some of the fish look like creepy glow in the dark aliens, but they're cool and they're unique and probably takes a pretty special camera to be able to dive that deep and take such cool pictures like his. Here is one of the many cool pictures Samaras has shot:
Overall, I just like how much work Samaras puts into his photography considering that for him to take pictures he has to have some sort of special camera, take a boat out to the middle of the sea, have diving gear and/or a sub, dive deep underwater, and finally have to wait around for some interesting creature to come along and take a picture of it. He has no control of his subject, can't instruct it on what to do, in fact, he has to search or wait for it. I just think his photography takes a lot of effort and it comes out worth it because we as veiwer's get to see some pretty cool photography that we otherwise would never be able to see.
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