About
Waterpixels aims to foster a thriving online community for underwater image makers by using all the resources and imagination we can to create a platform that invites individuals of all skill levels to connect and collaborate.
The forum is run by a dedicated team of individuals who share a passion for the underwater photography and who want to support the underwater imaging community. Our main objective is to provide members with a free community website and share advice, experience, knowledge and ideas that can enhance skills and creativity.
To support our commitment to keeping Waterpixels accessible to everyone, there is no charge for membership. We aim to cover running costs through sales of Waterpixels merchandise, donations from our community members, and, perhaps in time to come, carefully selected advertising partnerships.
By joining Waterpixels, you become part of a vibrant community that is driven by a common love for underwater imaging. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your journey, we welcome you to explore our platform, engage with fellow members, and take advantage of the wealth of resources available to you.
Meet The Team
Tim Gurney
As a child growing up with TV images of Jacques Cousteau and Hans
and Lottie Hass (remember them?!), I’ve always been drawn to the sea and diving - encouraged by holidays
with grandparents on the island of Jersey in the British Channel Islands. I joined a British
Sub-Aqua Club at the age of about 14 but a perforated ear drum doing a crazy swimming pool exercise put a
halt to an early diving life.
A long career in the British Diplomatic Service had me, at one stage, living in New York in the 1990s.
Curiously my morning walk to the Metro North train station took me past a PADI dive shop and into the Open
Water course. And so diving began for real. A later move to London also, coincidentally, had me living
around the corner from a PADI dive shop! Fate, eh?
Foreign postings then became subject to the dive-ability test. Five years living in Bermuda led to
discovering digital underwater photography, Wetpixel and becoming a PADI and BSAC instructor. My fate was
sealed.
After many overseas postings and then retirement, I spent a year running the diving at a resort in the
Lembeh Straits and teaching underwater photography. However the siren call of wanting to Save The World
intervened and I returned to land-locked Afghanistan to work on events there - and gave diving classes in
my free time. Bit of a challenge.
A Kodak digital camera and Ikelite housing started me on the road to photography ruin in the late-90s.
But I’d always been a Nikon fan (even before I could afford one) and was led by Seaoptics in Australia
down the Subal housing path with a Nikon E5000. I then journeyed through various Nikon Dxxx iterations,
buying and selling Subal housings along the way, starting with the D100. I flirted with Nikon full-frame
D800 and finally settled very happily in 2017 with a crop frame sensor D500. I’ll likely stay with that
for some time to come.
I’m now a semi-retired consultant advising on responses to events that most people do not want to
experience. Having just moved back to northern Europe from the Caribbean, I’m not diving as much as I’d
like but I sell through stock agencies and the occasional private sale a lot of the images that I
take. Happily though I don't have to survive on those earnings.
The underwater photography community is one of the most extraordinary group of people I’ve met: super
generous with their knowledge, their time, their experience and advice. It’s a pleasure to be
involved.
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Thanks For Your Support
