Name: Henley Spiers
Picture title: The Look
Category: Animal portraits
Nationality: Nationality: British / French. Live in United Kingdom
Occupation: Full-Time Underwater Photographer
Technical information
Camera: Nikon D850
Lens: Nikon 28-70mm @28mm
EXIF: f/8; 1/250; ISO 800
Accessories: Nauticam underwater housing; Nauticam WACP-1; 2 x OneUW 160x strobes
HIGHLY COMMENDED CATEGORY ANIMAL PORTRAIT
Henley Spiers | The Look
Name: Henley Spiers
Picture title: The Look
Category: Animal portraits
Nationality: Nationality: British / French. Live in United Kingdom
Occupation: Full-Time Underwater Photographer
Technical information
Camera: Nikon D850
Lens: Nikon 28-70mm @28mm
EXIF: f/8; 1/250; ISO 800
Accessories: Nauticam underwater housing; Nauticam WACP-1; 2 x OneUW 160x strobes
Henley Spiers says:
Life as an underwater wildlife photographer mostly involves trying to very gently accustom animals to our presence. As photography through water requires extreme proximity, we are usually unable to completely conceal ourselves from the wildlife and cannot rely on long lenses or hides to aid in fieldcraft.
Blissfully, the California sea lion pups at this marine protected area require no such strategies, as they actively seek out interaction…curiously checking out human visitors with playful enthusiasm. Placing myself at the end of this underwater cavern beneath a sea lion colony, I had to wait less than a minute before this pup came to investigate.
Location: Espiritu Santo National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Henley Spiers
British / French/ UK
Henley Spiers is a renowned underwater photographer, writer, and expedition leader who has fast become one of the most highly decorated wildlife image-makers in the world.
Starting his professional career in the ocean as a dive instructor, working in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Saint Lucia, he later fell in love with underwater imagery and made the transition to full-time photographer.
Since then, Henley has amassed a prolific series of award-winning images, including the coveted Grand Prize of the HIPA contest, multiple category wins in the Underwater Photographer of the Year, category winner in the Nature Photographer of the Year, winner of the Ocean Geographic David Doubilet Portfolio Award, runner-up in the Ocean Photographer of the Year, category winner in the British Wildlife Photography Awards and winner in the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year.