- explore the underwater world with me -
Scuba diving has been one of the great joys of my life. Spluttering my way through a dive course, I fell in love with the underwater world. Below the water's surface, camera in hand, I feel challenged to capture pictures of the amazing things I observe. From my beginnings as an open ocean diver, I have progressed to a love of cave diving.
New Zealand's oceans are my regular playgrounds. In her cool waters there are a myriad of wild nudibranchs, curious fish, seals, dolphins, kelp-covered reefs, plunging walls, wrecks and swim throughs telling of a volcanic past. It might be the miniscule that excites you; colourful macro opportunities abound. Or the wide-angle reefscapes crowded by schooling fish that make your heart beat faster.
The underwater pictures on this website reflect a journey, that for me, is just beginning. I can happily spend an hour scanning a wall, searching for a nudibranch I've never seen before. Or sign up for one week swimming with sharks and be thrilled to be spending it with animals that are so widely misunderstood. I'm just excited to be there, with my underwater camera.
My photographic adventures are blended together here. Travels in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Mexico and the Bahamas have furnished these underwater photos. The wish list of places to explore in future grows ever longer. The more I see, the more I want to see. The world is full of breathtaking underwater locations. Capturing these places in breathtaking photos is what keeps me going back.
New Zealand's oceans are my regular playgrounds. In her cool waters there are a myriad of wild nudibranchs, curious fish, seals, dolphins, kelp-covered reefs, plunging walls, wrecks and swim throughs telling of a volcanic past. It might be the miniscule that excites you; colourful macro opportunities abound. Or the wide-angle reefscapes crowded by schooling fish that make your heart beat faster.
The underwater pictures on this website reflect a journey, that for me, is just beginning. I can happily spend an hour scanning a wall, searching for a nudibranch I've never seen before. Or sign up for one week swimming with sharks and be thrilled to be spending it with animals that are so widely misunderstood. I'm just excited to be there, with my underwater camera.
My photographic adventures are blended together here. Travels in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Mexico and the Bahamas have furnished these underwater photos. The wish list of places to explore in future grows ever longer. The more I see, the more I want to see. The world is full of breathtaking underwater locations. Capturing these places in breathtaking photos is what keeps me going back.
A world below water has been my inspiration.
I hope it can be yours too.
Alison Perkins
My underwater photographs appear in these books:
In 2010 my pictures led to the first documentation of a pygmy killer whale in New Zealand. This news article tells the story.
- Bringing Back the Birdsong by Wade and Jan Doak
- Coastal Fishes of New Zealand, Identification, Biology, Behaviour by Malcolm Francis
- New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates 1 by Steve de C. Cook
- Ocean Innovation: Biomimetics Beneath the Waves by Iain A. Anderson, Julian Vincent, John Montgomery
In 2010 my pictures led to the first documentation of a pygmy killer whale in New Zealand. This news article tells the story.
Projects and groups I'm involved with:
- Contributing team member for the Mexico Cave Exploration Project (MCEP), dedicated to the exploration, study and conservation of Mexico’s underwater caves, and to documenting its findings through the use of survey, videography and still photography.
- Contributing team member on the Hoyo Negro Project, the study of a submerged Late Pleistocene cave site in Mexico.
- Contributing team member for Mexico Cave Survey (MCS), a cave exploration project dedicated to the exploration, survey, research and conservation of the fragile cave environment in Mexico.
- Member of the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP), a scientific research and exploration organisation whose mission is to explore, survey, connect, document and protect the flooded underwater cave systems of North Florida’s Woodville Karst Plain.
- Member of the Nullarbor Karst Plain Project (NKPP) in Australia: mapping, data logging, microbial sampling, images, video and exploration.
- One of the founding members of the GUE Project Baseline Tank Cave in Australia.
- Member of the Cave Divers Association of Australia (CDAA).
- Life Member of the Auckland University Underwater Club (AUUC).
- Member of the Botany Bottom Scratchers Dive Club (BBS).
- Member of the Seafanz Underwater Photographic Society, a New Zealand group dedicated to the pursuit of underwater photography.
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