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Author Events, Image Shows, and Lectures We did a book tour of Southern California in mid-summer of 2011. We did several dive club appearances in the spring and summer of 2011. We currently have no future appearances on our calendar. If you'd like to arrange a date for a presentation to your group, send email to Marc.
Marc Shargel has been a frequent presenter at clubs and civic groups all over Northern and Central California. More than a dozen clubs, as well as civic and volunteer groups, have seen his talks "Islands of the Eastern Pacific" and "An Underwater Swim Across the Pacific." In 2001 he presented images of endangered Manatees from West Florida. In 2002 his presentations featured images from the South Pacific Islands of Palau, Yap, and Bali. If you'd like to arrange a date for a presentation to your group, send email to Marc. |
Art Shows and Fairs Open Studios, Saturday and Sunday October 1 & 2, 2011
Gallery Events in connection with Open Studios
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Our Thanks to all the organizations
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Our Thanks to all the organizations
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About the Photographer
Marc Shargel has been diving along the Central California coast since 1978.
Shargel grew up near Cleveland, and attended Stanford University, where he
learned to scuba dive and studied Marine Biology at Hopkins Marine Station
in Pacific Grove. As a teenager, he learned the techniques of developing and
enlarging photographs, but it was the images he encountered underwater that
motivated him to return to photography. He has dived and photographed in California’s
Kelp Forests and on Coral Reefs in Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean the Red Sea,
and the Galápagos and Revillagigedos archipelagos. Since 1984 Shargel
has made his home near Santa Cruz, California.
"Humans build things with straight lines and square corners," he
says, "Nature suggests graceful curves but doesn’t enforce them. Flexibility
is paramount. The living Ocean is indescribably beautiful: it demands to be
seen. I hope my photographs will communicate some of that beauty, and motivate
people to preserve it."
Marc Shargel's photographs have been exhibited at galleries throughout the
San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. They have won a variety of prizes in
photo contests. Marc was named the Monterey Peninsula Underwater Photogaphers'
"Photographer of the Year" for 1998. His work has been published
in national magazines, commercial publications, in Dan Gotsahall's authoritative
book Sea of Cortez Marine Animals, and on CD-ROM.
Marc is also a talented photographic illusionist. His digitally
crafted images, based on underwater photos, are consistently popular and
have also won several prizes.
When he's not underwater, Marc Shargel operates Lumigenic
Media, a multimedia production firm. Through his company, he offers fine
art prints of his photos, as well as a recently introduced line of notecards.
More of Shargel's photographs can be seen in his virtual
gallery on the World Wide Web.
Author photo of Marc Shargel. Please credit "Photo by Steve Greenwood" when publishing.
Image of Wonders of the Sea: North Central California's Living Marine Riches
Image of Wonders of the Sea Volume Two: Marine Jewels of Southern California's Coast and Islands
Image of Wonders of the Sea Volume Three: Hidden Treasures of California’s Far North Coast
