Beneath the surface
Submerged we leave behind the limits of our upright lives to find ourselves suspended in True beauty. We reconnect to the basic natural element that enables all life and the fluid in which our lives began. We are gifted the magic we dream of since birth and return to a weightlessness.
Under the water we are humbled, but we are also freed from our constraints which define us on land. These depths amplify what it is to be human. To feel truly alive, if only for a brief moment in time.
During the summer months of 2015, seven California what is experiencing one of the most expensive El Niño seasons on record. With unseasonably clear visibility and warm water is reaching into the high 70s, the Catalina coast became the most interesting underwater photo studio north of the Hawaiian islands.
With the help of an eco-friendly due, A handful of wild souls, and some surreal conditions created by mother nature a beautiful visual energy came to life with each other snap I photographer Ricky Lesser giving a grander meaning to the world Beneath.
Three years in the making, dozens of wet boat rides, countless sunburns, unless Freedive
