Book Review: Magic Beneath the Seas

Peter Rowlands · Issue 43, Jul/Aug 2008 · pp. 55–61

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Book Review Magic Beneath the Seas An underwater photographic journey By Steven Kovacs Steven became an avid underwater photographer in 2001 and since then has taken the 317 images which make up this coffee table book. Magic Beneath the Seas is a testament to his talent and is a remarkable achievement bearing in mind that he is not a professional and is in fact a dental surgeon by trade. To achieve such consistent image quality in such a comparatively short period of time is very impressive and in the majority of portrait shots there is an eye to eye contact which is quite arresting giving me the feeling that I, the alien intruder, am being observed rather than the other way round. As the title implies this is a photographic rather than a written journey, a visual feast rather than a tome which is good but there were times when I would have prefered to sacrifice the space devoted to sple…