Kim Yusuf - Underwater Photography

Since quality of compact cameras became more serious and availability of underwater camera housings is given underwater photography almost became a commodity. Looking through picture archives such as Facebook, flickr, 500px, and more the number of published underwater imagery is endless. And many of the images are average.

A couple of years ago I met Kim Yusuf, German underwater photographer on a North Sulawesi trip to Bangka Island and Bunaken marine park.
We were diving together at some exceptional dive spots. And already under water I could see that Kim was up to get the "big picture".

Kim and his wife, always worked closely together to get the big shot. Kim's wife referred to herself as "head of snoot operations".  And you can see the quality of that collaboration in the results.

After that trip I googled for him and found his work on flickr and on his personal web site.

Some of his images truly are cutting edge in underwater photography. Both macro and wide angle images are well composed and exposed. Something many underwater photographs are missing.

I can only recommend to explore Kim's gallery and web site for inspiration.

Kim travelled many places on earth to capture special nature phenomena.

Browsing through Kim's portfolio I am deeply impressed. Especially by his close up images of interactions between marine animals. Myself, diving and taking underwater pictures since many years I even did not really see respective situations underwater.  Some of these images are truly unique.

For the gear aficionados, Kim let's you to explore his portfolio by camera, lens, iso, exact location, ...