Photographer of the Week – Adam Martin

American crocodile sundown cut up, Cuba

Our featured photographer this week is Adam Martin, and his portfolio takes us all around the globe, from the frigid waters of southern Patagonia to the tropical reefs of French Polynesia—and lots of locations in between. As a contract software program developer, he is ready to journey extensively, and his photographs present he makes probably the most of these alternatives. Rising up in Southern California as a surfer, ultimately his ardour for the ocean grew right into a love for diving and underwater images.

Adam may be very a lot a wide-angle photographer. His portfolio options huge animals, underwater landscapes, and a number of glorious over-unders. Broad-angle work additionally dominates his web site, the place you’ll have to look onerous to discover a macro image! His picture of the “Horns” in Chile’s Torres del Paine Nationwide Park is likely one of the most original cut up photographs we have now seen, as a result of to our information, it’s the solely such image that exists from this location.

Adam says his purpose is to seize dramatic scenes underwater and to convey a way of journey and inform a narrative with every image. For my part, he does this very effectively, and his photographs of divers exploring present the right fashion for storytelling and the journey images style. Adam now resides in Boulder, Colorado, and despite the fact that underwater images is his main love, he’s largely landlocked, spending most of his time at house photographing Colorado’s spectacular wildlife, landscapes, and dabbling in astro and aerial images.