Wayne Levin takes beautiful photographs of schooling fish in Hawaii, among other creatures. Even more compelling is that he shoots in black and white. This is an interesting way around the limitations of color in underwater photography.
Most underwater photographers are divers first, then they get into photography to capture the beautiful scenes they see underwater. I was a photographer first. My first serious underwater photography was when I finished graduate school at Pratt in 1983. I returned to Hawaii to teach photography at University of Hawaii, and decided to photograph surfers from underwater. My first attempts were in color, but the results were very murky blue on blue. Then I switched to black and white, and everything came alive.
~ Wayne Levin
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