Charles Hood | Diving Photography Specialist
Born in 1960 Charles first started taking wildlife photographs at the age of 8. After winning the best junior award at his local school, with an image of a swan, he’s never looked back. At the age of 16 he started taking photographs underwater while living in the Middle East. His equipment then consisted of a Kodak Instamatic in a homemade plastic housing. Since then Charles has won numerous awards for his work in the UK and worldwide. These include, the most first prizes in any one year at the British Society of Underwater Photographers, the Underwater Photographer of the Year in 2001 and culminating in being twice specially commended at the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2004 and 2005. Today Charles is a freelance underwater photojournalist under contract to DIVE magazine in UK. He also is a major shareholder in the UK’s largest dedicated underwater photographic stock library to which he has over 5000 images online. His work is almost exclusively commercial, involving filming mostly people and big animals underwater with his Nikon D2x in an Aquatica housing. He has racked up over 60 front covers including being only one of two underwater photographers to have had a cover on TIME magazine.
Proud winners of the DIVER 'Tour Operator of the Year' award for 8 years! (2004 - 2010 & 2012).
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Not afraid to embrace and pioneer new techniques, and then share them with the world, has made him internationally sought after as a mentor and teacher 
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there's not a single area of underwater photography that he hasn't mastered.Let him show you how on one of his famous trips.
