Book Review: Winning Images With Any Underwater Camera by Paul Colley

Dan Bolt · Issue 79, Jul/Aug 2014 · pp. 95–97

Products mentioned: Winning Images With Any Underwater Camera (book), Olympus XZ-2

Another edition of UWP; and another book review by yours truly. This time it’s Paul Colley’s publication ‘Winning Images With Any Underwater Camera’, a book that concentrates solely on why some images ‘win’ and how the human brain perceives what a ‘winning’ image might be therefore composed of. Of all the book reviews I’ve done this has been the toughest so far, as you know I like to read the subject matter upon which I’m asked to have an opinion about, and this one was, at times, quite hard going. Definitely not because it is poorly written; Paul’s writing style is clear and concise and he has an ability to communicate complicated ideas well, but because the very subjects chosen for inclusion require a detailed analytical turn-of- phrase to adequately describe the concepts to the reader. [much like that last sentence!] From the outset it is plain to see that behind these 200+ pages lies…