Light in the Sea

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Light in the Sea. Da\id Doubilefs long-awaited first book, presents the best images of one of the world's foremost undenvater photographers. Since 1971, Doubilet has explored the oceans for Xcitioaal Geographic, photographing scenes stranger than anything ab()\'e \\-ater: the sax'age courtship dance of reef sharks, the coral-encatsted wreck of a sunken B-17, the eight-foot claw span of a SO-year-old crab.
Light in the Sea takes us on a journey through seven .strikingly different undersea realms. At the Red Sea's Ras Muhammad reef. Doubilet swims through a rainbow of anthias and chi'omis and watches garden eels rise from sand burr()\\"s as if an undersea snake charmer-ft-ere piping nearby. Off Japan's Izu Peninsula, he dives to chilly depths where grcn es of six-foot-tall soft corals flourish, harboring tiny gobies in their branches. In the Caribbean, he drifts in sandy shalkws while surprisingly gentle stingrays sv,'eep around him searching for food. Seas near South Australia.... Tovább

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Light in the Sea. Da\id Doubilefs long-awaited first book, presents the best images of one of the world's foremost undenvater photographers. Since 1971, Doubilet has explored the oceans for Xcitioaal Geographic, photographing scenes stranger than anything ab()\'e \\-ater: the sax'age courtship dance of reef sharks, the coral-encatsted wreck of a sunken B-17, the eight-foot claw span of a SO-year-old crab.
Light in the Sea takes us on a journey through seven .strikingly different undersea realms. At the Red Sea's Ras Muhammad reef. Doubilet swims through a rainbow of anthias and chi'omis and watches garden eels rise from sand burr()\\"s as if an undersea snake charmer-ft-ere piping nearby. Off Japan's Izu Peninsula, he dives to chilly depths where grcn es of six-foot-tall soft corals flourish, harboring tiny gobies in their branches. In the Caribbean, he drifts in sandy shalkws while surprisingly gentle stingrays sv,'eep around him searching for food. Seas near South Australia. Papua New Guinea. Palati and \'ancou\"er Island are also featured as \\'ell as a special section on sharks, including the largest and smallest species.
Setting the scene for i^ch chapter. Doubilet's essays e\'oke the fascination and danger of \\'orking in marine environments. The introduction \'i\'idly describes his undersea education, from childhood afternoons spent snorkeling at the Jersey shore to eariy assignments for Xatioual Geographic.
Light in the Sea celebrates the range of Doubilet's photographic \'ision - magnificent undersea panoramas. re\ ealing glimpses of sea creatures' beha\-i()r, entrancing close-ups of patterns and colors, .Meeting the ocean's more timid creatures eye to eye, he creates beguiling images; a fringe-headed blenny peers from the rock burrow, and a blue-spotted broadhead ding-fish slithers o\-er a sea tulip's bright pink nodes.
Light in the Sea conveys, as few books can, the rewards of a demanding photographic specialty and the excitement of the world beneath the wax es. Vissza