Doug Perrine: A Visual Story Teller

Staff · Issue 17, Feb/Mar 2004 · pp. 21–25

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21 Doug Perrine A Visual Story Teller by Simon Brown Doug who? Mention this name amongst friends and watch the blank looks and vague expressions return your expectant stare. Even divers, some of whom carry a camera underwater (and, in theory, should know better) scratch foreheads and mutter “the name sounds familiar” but fail to make any connection between the name and some of the most eye catching and rewarding images ever taken underwater. Doug is a rare breed, making a living taking photographs underwater. Whilst most of us who carry a camera into the depths might dream (or Bronze whalers, or copper sharks, Carcharhinus brachyurus, gulp mouthfuls of sardines, Sardinops sagax, as they charge through a baitball, showering fish scales and blood into the water, S . Africa Canon EOS D60 digital in UK Germany housing @ ISO 200, Sigma 14mm f 2.8 lens, Canon 550EX strobe in UK Germany housing…