Seth Castell - Underwater Dog Photography

"Award-winning photographer Seth Casteel, also known as "The Underwater Dog Guy", has been featured in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, The New York Times, TIME Magazine and on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, EXTRA, CNN WORLD REPORT, THE TODAY SHOW and JEOPARDY! As one of the most published pet photographers in the world, his work can be seen in hundreds of magazines, calendars, posters, books and TV shows.

Casteel’s business, Little Friends Photo, based in Los Angeles and Chicago, specializes in lifestyle pet photography, embracing the at-ease mentality of pets on-location in their natural surroundings. The results are spontaneous, priceless moments of your pet's unique personality captured in photographs that will last forever.

Seth is super duper excited about the release of his first book, "Underwater Dogs", to be released October 23, 2012 through Little, Brown." [decaturarts.org]

He was inspired by seeing a dog that loved jumping into a pool to retrieve a ball. “As I watched him, I wondered, ‘What does he look like under there?’” he says.

“I love the connection that dogs have with water,” says Seth. “It gives me the opportunity to explore their wild instincts and allows their amazing range of expressions to shine through.”

I was drawn to these images not just because of my love of dogs but also because of the humour of them in the form of the dogs facial expressions.  I feel that children of all ages could engage with them and develop an interesting discussion on their thoughts and opinions of them and that it would spark their creativity to capture their own images.  The images could also be part of a topic such as emotions as each captures a facial expression that we recognise.  Therefore overall I feel that Seth Casteel's would be a great photographer to study with children.


References
 Available at: http://www.decaturarts.org/components/biography/527/.  [Accessed 15th April 2013]