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My interest in photography began when I was twelve years old. What started as curiosity quickly became a lifelong passion. I built my own darkroom, developing film and made prints through college. When I began surfing in 1970, my lens naturally turned toward the ocean—waves, light on water, and the culture surrounding the sea. In the early 1970s, while living in San Diego, I started borrowing my dad’s 8mm Minolta film camera and began making surf movies

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As my skills evolved, so did my equipment. I purchased a Sony Super 8 camera in 1978 and an Ikelite underwater housing in 1980, allowing me to film from within the waves themselves. My travels took me from the West Coast to the East Coast, then to Hawaii, Bali, and Tahiti. In the 1980s, during graduate school, my focus expanded from surfing to marine life—filming coral reefs, kelp forests, and deep-sea explorations—deepening my relationship with the ocean through both science and art.

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In 2009, I began digitizing and sharing my films on YouTube. And in 2024, I began experimenting with AI-driven filmmaking, opening an entirely new creative chapter. Many of my current projects serve to visualize and promote the worlds and themes of my research, my love for surfing and the ocean, and my science fiction writings and books, allowing me to bring imagined futures, ecological challenges, and ocean-centered narratives to life in ways that were once impossibl

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