About Adrian Stacey

      

I was born in London in 1972. I have always been interested in photography but it has only been in the last few years that I have been doing it more seriously. While travelling around the world in 1994 I learnt how to dive on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and immediately fell in love with diving. After a period of several years and all too infrequent opportunities to dive I decided to become a diving instructor. I moved to Egypt and was certified as a PADI diving instructor in 2003, after completing my training with Emperor Divers.

It was when I took up diving that I became eager to get behind the lens again so I could show/bore friends and family with the stunning and alien underwater world.

My first attempt at underwater photography was on a diving trip to the Bahamas in 2000. I borrowed friends camera but the results were poor at best. Three years later I found myself in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt working as a diving instructor. I purchased a Sony Cybershot camera with underwater housing, I used my days off to take pictures and was very pleased when some of them were used for the front covers of several books.

As my passion for photography grew, the need for a new challenge was satisfied when I purchased a Nikon D200 with Hugyfot housing in 2006. At first I though I had bitten of more than I could chew and while I am still progressing and constantly looking to learn new techniques, I feel my photography has benefited.

This site is a mixture of both my early pictures with the Sony Cybershot and my more recent photos with the Nikon D200.

I hope you enjoy the galleries.