Over 4,500 photographs from 67 different countries were entered into this year's contest. The competition is held by UPY London, which consists of judges experienced in underwater photography who ...

For more than 40 years, David Doubilet has been chronicling the magnificent and the mysterious for National Geographic as an underwater photographer. In that time, he has captured marine ...

This photo originally published in "Cuba’s Underwater Jewels Are in Tourism’s Path," in November 2016. Photograph by David Doubilet and Jennifer S. Hayes, National Geographic PHOTOGRAPHY ...

How to take photos underwater. Jennifer Hayes came to photography through science: the desire to sway people toward conservation. Here’s her advice for creating powerful imagery under the sea.

“Sharks are the least of it,” says longtime National Geographic photo editor Kathy Moran when asked about the challenges of photographing underwater. “In fact, you hope for sharks if you are ...

He was inspired by an underwater camera housing called the OceanEye, which was invented by National Geographic photographer Bates Littlehales and optical engineer Gomer McNeill.

This photo appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Learn more about ocean life in Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures, premiering Sunday, January 15th at 7/6c ...

He’s been a National Geographic underwater photographer since 1971, and like Laurent, he’d grown up idolizing Jacques Cousteau. DOUBILET: But it was like looking through a Tudor window and ...

Stare into the eyes of an Amazon tree snake, explore the inside of a lava tube, and dive into an underwater cave. Find your inner National Geographic Explorer in these photos.

Underwater photography in the Amazon is severely lacking as many of the region’s murky waters are dangerous or inaccessible. ... PHOTO: ANDY WHITWORTH/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.