Mugshots! Let's see 'em.

[Guest echeng]

It was brought up in another thread that most of the photos we post of ourselves feature us covered in layers of neoprene. Let's post shots where you can actually see our faces! Historical photos are a bonus.

 

I'll start...

 

The early days -- before a camera (late 1990s):

 

One of my first liveaboard trips, circa 2001:

 

Aboard the Steve Irwin in Antarctica, with Sea Shepherd (modern day):

 

In Ambon (by Kozyndan)

[Guest echeng]

Remember that the member introductions thread is also a good place to see photos of Wetpixel members:

http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5622

[Alex_Mustard 0]

Great time to post this - as I have some very old ones of me at my folks. Try and dig them out when visiting during the next week.

 

Here are a couple I have online:

 

Not sure of the year - guess would be 1984?:

 

This one is 1995 (I think - as I got the Pepsi shorts on my one visit to Fiji in 1994)! This was taken by a japanese photographer - who posted me the original slide from Japan:

 

Sorry they are such low res.

 

Alex

 

p.s. Looks like you've been signed by Fulchester United (very British reference)!

[johnspierce 25]

John Pierce

Denver, CO

Diving for 27 years

Actually bought a Nikonos IV when it was new

 

First photo is from 10 years ago

Second photo from last year. Less hair, more weight, oh well...

[DeanB 19]

me topside & me and my gorgeous little lady Willow

Edited December 21, 2010 by DeanB

[loftus 42]

This must be love;Courtesy of Alex

with my ladies..

Dean, they grow up fast

Edited December 21, 2010 by loftus

[ehanauer 50]

Fort Bragg, NC 1958

Cabo Pulmo c.1975

NikoMar housing, c.1977

Door County 1960

[Alex_Mustard 0]

Those are so cool, Eric.

 

Hope you still have the trunks!

 

Alex

[John Bantin 101]

Early days 1990? What are you talking about? I RETIRED from my real job in 1992!

[ehanauer 50]

Those are so cool, Eric.

 

Hope you still have the trunks!

 

Alex

 

There are lots of places I wouldn't wear them today.

[SimonSpear 65]

 

Palau Feb 2010

 

 

Spain July 2010 with my little girl Gracie (19 months in that photo).

[bmyates 5]

My earliest "fish" shot, circa 1970

 

Aboard Ondina in Indonesia, circa 2005, with my "little friend" Michael

 

On Shearwater, also in 2005, on the railing just after I nearly slipped and fell in with the water full of sharks

 

And closer to present day

Edited December 21, 2010 by bmyates

[Timmoranuk 10]

Tim, CJ and Alison

[diver dave1 23]

Diver Dave and Daughter at Machu Picchu 2010

 

[Nige Wade 0]

1996 Mauritius my hair was all the same colour in those days .

 

 

September 2010 in Taba doing some Reg Tests for Divermag.

 

 

Roll on the next 14 years

 

Nige Wade

[londonsean69 1]

I only learned to dive in 2000, and don't have any photos from then

 

Hard at work in Lanzarote, 2006

 

Getting over a bend in Bali by snorkelling 2008

 

Gozo 2010

 

And if you think my hair is big now, you should have seen it when I was younger

[Tom_Kline 143]

This shot shows me as a Ph.D. student snorkeling in Iliamna Lake, Alaska in 1987. The white blobs on the bottom are decomposing salmon carcasses, the subject of my research. I had been scuba diving at this location collecting samples with a slurp gun. When that was done I switched to snorkeling and took some shots with the rig in may hand. Before that I handed over a Kodachrome 64 loaded Nikon F2 to my safety man Pat Poe who took this shot of me. Some here will recognize the Hydro35 housing and Subsea strobe.

[Tom_Kline 143]

This is a more recent shot, taken just a month ago on the Sunday of the 4-day T-day weekend. We finally got some serious snow! After carrying the gear through the woods to the location (just a couple 100 meters). I lined it up for the shot with the idea of using it for a Christmas card, but ended up not using it for that. This is a self-portrait. You can see the remote control cable running from my hand to the camera, which was in a housing. The stream behind me is where I have shot many coho salmon spawning shots. The gravel bar I am on is under water during the summer (much higher flow).

Edited December 30, 2010 by Tom_Kline

[Scubamoose 0]

Nice to see the faces behind familiar names!

 

Heres a shot of me - a newly certifyed DM at work. Summer of 2007

 

 

And this picture is an evidence of the birth of the "Scubamoose".

A wild diving / camping weekend on the summer of 2007.

Spin the bottle game where the loser has to dress one part of scuba equipment untill someone wears the whole equipment.

It's clear who lost the game and somewhere along the way I got some horns taped around my head...

Waaayyy too many margaritas... I'm not sure am I laughing or crying.

 

 

Cheers

Karel

[loftus 42]

Hilarious Rudolph, I mean Karel,

Happy New Year

[StephenFrink 9]

Back in the Day ... the day being sometime in 1974 while in graduate school at California State University, Long Beach.

 

[MIKE POWELL 1]

DUDE...were you in Easy Rider? Cool Pic.!!

 

Back in the Day ... the day being sometime in 1974 while in graduate school at California State University, Long Beach.

 

[DeanB 19]

Back in the Day ... the day being sometime in 1974 while in graduate school at California State University, Long Beach.

 

 

Excellent choice in Bike

 

Dive safe, ride like hell

 

DeanB

[ornate_wrasse 0]

Back in the Day ... the day being sometime in 1974 while in graduate school at California State University, Long Beach.

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I really like that fringed jacket! Dennis Hopper, too, surely would have liked it!

 

I see that you've changed a bit over the years

 

Ellen

[StephenFrink 9]

I really like that fringed jacket! Dennis Hopper, too, surely would have liked it!

 

I see that you've changed a bit over the years

 

Ellen

 

Changed? How so??? That was only 36 years and 7500 dives ago