A Little History...From the beginning!

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I took my first underwater picture in 1983 with an old Hanimex 110 film camera. The results were not good at all. But it triggered a love of capturing images of the things I saw underwater in a profound way. 10 years later I borrowed the Armys Nikonos IV Underwater camera system and managed to capture some good images sealing my fate, to feed my need to take more underwater images. Later I would work on Australia's Great Barrier Reef  & Coral Sea diving almost every day with a camera in hand. I shot hundreds of hours of video and thousands of images back in the day where High 8 and Mini DV video ruled and film was still the only underwater photography medium to shoot with. As an instructor I taught divers how to shoot and at the same time became a better photographer. In 2001 I was working in the British Virgin Islands as a UW Photo shop manager and started shooting with one of the first Digital Point & Shoot Cameras on the market  around that time. It was a little Canon Elph 1.3MP I think. Anyways I was amazed at the images I captured and loved the instant gratification I got when reviewing the images I just shot. My love affair with Underwater Photographer changed my life. I shot the life out of that poor little Canon Elph and upgraded to a Ikelite housed Canon G1 3.3 PM digital Camera. Over a period of 4 years I learn't all that I could learn from Point and shoot cameras with or without strobes and other attachments before I took the plunge and upgraded to my first Aquatica housed SLR System. Though the Canon 20D was not top of the line back in 2006 It did serve my needs and provided me with countless amazing shots. In 2009 I upgraded to another Aquatica housing with all the bells and whistles to house Canons amazing 21MP 1Ds Mark III SLR camera. (A system at that time, cost as much as a new Truck) The quality of images compared to the 20D was like night and day and my images now are represented in all the leading image Stock Agencies such as Getty's & Corbis to name a couple of the big ones. My Image library exceeds 250,000 images.  I still shoot as a professional today and I bring to you decades of experience when teaching you all you need to know about how to shoot underwater. If you want to see more of the images I have shot check out my website www.TerryMooreImages.com stick to the landing page to see more than 200 of my favorite images, or explore the 12,000 other images I have there.