I am completely in love with old zoological prints and plates. I have them around my house and even on my walls at work. The combination of art and science in them is perfect.

These particular images are from a fantastic 1796 book in the collection of the Biodiversity Heritage Library:

Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons

See the plates on Flickr here.

Another fish plate for my collection of fish plates. Yes I collect fish plates. But only slowly, as I find awesome ones like this. I love how crazy and barely fish-like but just-fish-like-enough this one is. Great interpretation of the tail.

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 via
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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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