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Author Events, Image Shows, and Lectures The Four Eyed Frog Book Store Marc Shargel has been a frequent presenter at clubs and civic groups all over Northern and Central California. His talks "Islands of the Eastern Pacific" and "An Underwater Swim Across the Pacific" have been seen by more than a dozen clubs, as well as civic and volunteer groups. His most recent talks include his latest shots of endangered Manatees from West Florida. In 2002 his presentations featured images from the South Pacific Islands of Palau and Yap. Marc's talks also include his reasons for participating in local marine conservation groups, The Coalition of Organizations for Ocean Life, and The Friends of the Edward F. Ricketts Marine Reserve. If you'd like to arrange a date for a presentation to your group, send email to Marc. |
Art Shows and Fairs Open Studios Jingle Shells Art & Ocean Festival A one-day holiday gift show at The Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz. Celebrate the holiday season at the annual Jingle Shells Arts & Crafts Festival.We'll be doing a book talk and image show during the day (bookmark this page and check in a few weeks for exact time.) I'll be showing prints of new work all day long, along with established favorite images. And of course you'll be able to take home signed copies of my book. Other local artists will offer a variety of nature and ocean-inspired gifts––jewelry, ceramics, art glass, handmade soaps, and more! Special activities for the family include crafts, musical performances, and special presentations by local naturalists and researchers, including a live bird of prey. At the same time you can enjoy the Seymour Center's fabulous displays of local marine life, and one of the most beautiful views in the county. Come early and enjoy sunset from the cliff! Phone (831) 459-4087 for more information, or see the map and directions, below. This show will be your last chance to see our NoteCards and fine art prints in person before the holidays! (We will be accepting phone and web orders up to December 12). Email or phone 831-335-4849 for additional information on any of these events. |
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Our Thanks to all the organizations
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Our Thanks to all the organizations
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Directions to The Seymour Center at Long Marine Lab:
Take 1 North to the north side of Santa Cruz, continue following 1 along Mission Street to Swift Street, near the edge of town. Go left on Swift and right on Delaware Ave. Go past Natural Bridges to the end of Delaware. If you go straight, you'll enter Long Marine Lab. Follow that road as it bends left, go all the way to the end. The lot for the Seymour Center is on the left. A map is available online.
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.
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