Shark photography

Chris Knight · Issue 93, Nov/Dec 2016 · pp. 52–59

Products mentioned: Sony RX100 MK2, Nauticam housing, UWL 04 fisheye

From a very young age I was fascinated by animals and was always reading wildlife books or glued to the TV watching wildlife documentaries. When I was about 10 years old I watched the original Jaws film. After the nightmares faded (I’m joking) I was left intrigued and fascinated by sharks. I know that these films were enough to put some people off of going in the sea for life but I was left thinking wow – wouldn’t it be cool to see a Great White one day. My parents also helped as they knew that Jaws didn’t necessarily portray sharks as they really were so they brought me a book “Great Shark Stories” by Ron and Valerie Taylor who were very famous for their work on sharks and contributed massively towards the films in terms of the real footage that was used and how the animators needed to design the shark for the films. In August 2010 I took myself off to Cape Town in South Africa. While t…