“While shooting California sea lions in Mexico last year (doesn’t that sound weird….last year???), I absolutely fell in love with their adorable faces and hysterical antics. And then….. when I met my first Harbor Seal while shooting in Monterey in September, I fell in love all over again! Apparently, this one had been chewing on my fin for a minute or so before I even noticed it, as I was obsessed with photographing the light rays streaming through the kelp in the cold waters of Point Lobos. Then he jumped in front of the camera, and photo-bombed my kelp shot! Just a few quick shots, and he took off, never to be seen again, but what a face, staring straight into my camera and straight into my heart!”

Hammerheads Gets a Facelift with New Tech
Since the dawn of my career, I’ve been touting passion over technology, effort over what camera to buy, and have responded to 10,000 inquiries of “what camera did you use“, with my snarky but true, “it’s not the camera – it’s what you do with it“. However,…. I’m also a


