Mugshots! Let's see 'em.

It was brought up in another thread that most of the photos we post of ourselves feature us covered in layers of neoprene. Let's post shots where you can actually see our faces! Historical photos are a bonus.

I'll start...

The early days -- before a camera (late 1990s):

One of my first liveaboard trips, circa 2001:

Aboard the Steve Irwin in Antarctica, with Sea Shepherd (modern day):

In Ambon (by Kozyndan)

Remember that the member introductions thread is also a good place to see photos of Wetpixel members:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5622

Great time to post this - as I have some very old ones of me at my folks. Try and dig them out when visiting during the next week.

Here are a couple I have online:

Not sure of the year - guess would be 1984?:

This one is 1995 (I think - as I got the Pepsi shorts on my one visit to Fiji in 1994)! This was taken by a japanese photographer - who posted me the original slide from Japan:

Sorry they are such low res.

Alex

p.s. Looks like you've been signed by Fulchester United (very British reference)!

John Pierce

Denver, CO

Diving for 27 years

Actually bought a Nikonos IV when it was new

First photo is from 10 years ago

Second photo from last year. Less hair, more weight, oh well...

me topside & me and my gorgeous little lady Willow

This must be love;Courtesy of Alex

with my ladies..

Dean, they grow up fast

Fort Bragg, NC 1958

Cabo Pulmo c.1975

NikoMar housing, c.1977

Door County 1960

Those are so cool, Eric.

Hope you still have the trunks!

Alex

Early days 1990? What are you talking about? I RETIRED from my real job in 1992!

Those are so cool, Eric.

 

Hope you still have the trunks!

 

Alex

There are lots of places I wouldn't wear them today.

Palau Feb 2010

Spain July 2010 with my little girl Gracie (19 months in that photo).

My earliest "fish" shot, circa 1970

Aboard Ondina in Indonesia, circa 2005, with my "little friend" Michael

On Shearwater, also in 2005, on the railing just after I nearly slipped and fell in with the water full of sharks

And closer to present day

Tim, CJ and Alison

Diver Dave and Daughter at Machu Picchu 2010

1996 Mauritius my hair was all the same colour in those days .

September 2010 in Taba doing some Reg Tests for Divermag.

Roll on the next 14 years

Nige Wade

I only learned to dive in 2000, and don't have any photos from then

Hard at work in Lanzarote, 2006

Getting over a bend in Bali by snorkelling 2008

Gozo 2010

And if you think my hair is big now, you should have seen it when I was younger

This shot shows me as a Ph.D. student snorkeling in Iliamna Lake, Alaska in 1987. The white blobs on the bottom are decomposing salmon carcasses, the subject of my research. I had been scuba diving at this location collecting samples with a slurp gun. When that was done I switched to snorkeling and took some shots with the rig in may hand. Before that I handed over a Kodachrome 64 loaded Nikon F2 to my safety man Pat Poe who took this shot of me. Some here will recognize the Hydro35 housing and Subsea strobe.

This is a more recent shot, taken just a month ago on the Sunday of the 4-day T-day weekend. We finally got some serious snow! After carrying the gear through the woods to the location (just a couple 100 meters). I lined it up for the shot with the idea of using it for a Christmas card, but ended up not using it for that. This is a self-portrait. You can see the remote control cable running from my hand to the camera, which was in a housing. The stream behind me is where I have shot many coho salmon spawning shots. The gravel bar I am on is under water during the summer (much higher flow).

Nice to see the faces behind familiar names!

Heres a shot of me - a newly certifyed DM at work. Summer of 2007

And this picture is an evidence of the birth of the "Scubamoose".

A wild diving / camping weekend on the summer of 2007.

Spin the bottle game where the loser has to dress one part of scuba equipment untill someone wears the whole equipment.

It's clear who lost the game and somewhere along the way I got some horns taped around my head...

Waaayyy too many margaritas... I'm not sure am I laughing or crying.

Cheers

Karel

Hilarious Rudolph, I mean Karel,

Happy New Year