Book Review: The Underwater Photographer by Martin Edge with Stuart Gibson

Peter Rowlands · Issue 114, May/Jun 2020 · pp. 59–63

Products mentioned: The Underwater Photographer (5th Edition) by Martin Edge, VitalSource app

Book Review The Underwater Photographer by Martin Edge with Stuart Gibson Martin and I go back a long way and he is kind enough to acknowledge me in his introduction so I am under huge pressure to write a good review of the 5th edition of his book, The Underwater Photographer :-) There is a very good reason why this format of delivery has stood the test of time and that is because it accompanies you on a learning journey not just of the well explained and made easy to understand technical facts but also for the not so easy mindset of an underwater photographer. Facts are facts but mindset is what is gets you ahead of the game. Martin is not only an excellent underwater photographer as the images testify but he is also a great teacher and, like all our best school teachers who inspired us to Grade ‘A’s, you never forget what he says. That’s why this book has helped so many underwater phot…