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BOOK REVIEW
Review by GILL MCDONALD

Underwater
Photography
Masterclass
By ALEX MUSTARD

Alex Mustard is the master of his art, and his longawaited book on underwater photography is a
triumph. A natural teacher, Alex explains every skill
the underwater photographer could possibly need
in a simple way with faultless examples. An absolute
must for everyone using a camera underwater
DR ALEXANDER MUSTARD
has been taking photographs
underwater for 30 years, and fulltime professionally for the last 10.
His images have won international
recognition, including being
category winners in both the
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
and the British Wildlife Photography Awards. In 2013,
Alex was named European Wildlife Photographer of
the Year, the only time an underwater photograph
has claimed this prestigious award. He founded
the new Underwater Photographer of the Year
competition in 2015 and was also judge for the
Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the CMAS
World Championship of Underwater Photography.
Alex has been published in all the world’s top
scuba-diving magazines with hundreds of articles
and thousands of photos to his credit. He has coauthored other marine related books, and has also
had, and continues to perform, many other roles in
the fascinating world of underwater photography.
Not least of these is running his extremely popular
workshops in locations all round the world.
Given all this and more, it is unsurprising that
Alex has now turned his attention to producing
his first, long-awaited book specifically on
underwater photography: Underwater
Photography Masterclass.
It is difficult to imagine anything new and different
being published on this niche subject, since there

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Reprinted with permission from
Ammonite Press, Underwater
Photography Masterclass © 2016 by
Alex Mustard, RRP £19.99. Available
from all good bookshops and
www.thegmcgroup.com.