Andy Belcher

Mikayo Langhofer · Issue 4, Jan 2002 · pp. 12–16

Products mentioned: Nikonos IVa, Nikonos III, Nikon 801s, 16mm fisheye lens, Nexus housing, Nikonos SB102, Nikonos SB103, Nikonos SB104, TLC arms, Fuji Velvia film, Jim Church's The Nikonos Handbook

New Zealand photographer Andy Belcher has won more than 80 international photographic awards including the Australasian Underwater Photographer of the year title (twice) and overall first at France’s Okeanos and Antibes Festivals, California’s UPS and New Zealand’s Oceans photo competitions and a first place in the 1997 British Wildlife Photographer of the year competition. In the 1994 CMAS international 50 Judges Contest, Andy was named one of the world’s top four professional underwater photographers. What got you started in underwater photography? Not long after we got married Angie and I went on holiday to Australia and we ended up taking a cheap flight to PNG. We were both divers and that was really our first taste of real tropical diving. I something in my head just went “photos”. That’s the only way really that I can describe it, I’d hardly ever taken a photo before and knew nothi…