About Me
TIM ROCK specializes in the imagery of the marine world and is a publisher, author, photographer and owner of a photo gallery on Guam in the western Pacific. He attended the journalism program at the University of Nebraska - Omaha (UNO) and has been a professional broadcast and print photojournalist for 30 years. In April 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the UNO School of Communications. Tim was also a Guam Delegate for the Visual Arts (still photography and video) for the 2016 Pacific Festival of the Arts and he is a Guam Visitor's Bureau Hafa Adai Spirit Award winner. In his early years, his news photography appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN. The majority of his career has been in the Western and Indo Pacific reporting on environmental and conservation issues. He has won the prestigious Excellence in the Use of Photography from the Society of Publishers in Asia. His TV show Aquaquest Micronesia was an ACE award finalist. He also lists many other awards for documentaries, television shows, photography and writing. He works as a correspondent for numerous Pacific Rim magazines. He is a Lonely Planet author and contributor to over a sixteen Lonely Planet/Pisces series guides and also has his own series of guides and coffee table books available on Amazon and Apple as print and e-books. Rock has done work for National Geographic and has been published in National Geographic Publications, Smithsonian, GEO, Terre Sauvage and numerous top tier books and magazines. Rock's photographic work is represented by Getty Images Lonely Planet Collection, SeaPics, Polaris Images, WaterFrame, MantaRay Publishing, his own Double Blue Images and Ultri-Motion Managment... a Guam-based agency, and by other top photographic agents worldwide.
DIVE TRIPS
Tim also leads a number of trips annually and with seasoned dive veteran and tour leaders Simon Pridmore and his wife Sofie Hotsyn.
