A few photos and just a bit about Steve Lucas
Although I now spend my time writing, working on a table top book, proposing a large rain forest exhibit at the Little Rock Zoo and photographing plants, in a "previous life" I traveled from island to island and continent to continent as a commercial photographer for numerous magazines, major resort hotels, airlines, cruise lines, swim suit manufacturers and other clients. My work has appeared on the covers and in the pages of magazines such as Peterson's Photographic, Skin Diver, Travel and Leisure, Southern Living and numerous others around the globe. I've taught photography for Nikon Cameras, done advertising work for the US importer of Bronica Cameras and professionally tested film for Fuji Film.
Many of the underwater photos below were taken while on assignment for Skin Diver Magazine. The architectural aquarium photos were done for a company in South Florida that produces living coral reef aquariums selling for $20,000 to $100,000 systems (and even more) for mega-million dollar homes, offices, theme parks and hotels. I have been privileged to author more than 300 nationally published magazine articles on travel, photography, scuba diving, tropical plants, birds and other subjects which have appeared in numerous magazine titles.
In 1992 I was among the first in the world honored to receive the Scuba Schools International Platinum Pro 5000 dive card for logging over 5000 scuba dives. To date, there have been less than 1000 of those cards issued worldwide. Now retired, I spend my time in our Exotic Rainforest learning about exotic rare plants for enjoyment!
The female diver in silhouette, and two other photos, is my wife Janice. The pair of female divers are my wife Janice and oldest daughter Stephanie. Below the underwater photos and some catalogue and commercial work is one of several promotional pieces I used to mail to prospective clients before my retirement. And the photo of the three ladies on chase lounges once graced the cover of Petersen Photographic Magazine and has been used by a cruise line and other companies as a major ad campaign.
To you photo nuts out there, my apologies! Many of these shots were shot on large format film, too large to fit in my film scanner. As a result, I was forced to scan the finished printed product which tends not to produce as crisp an image for internet use.
Steve
All photographs are the copyright property of Steve Lucas and may not be used without permission.
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All Photographs © 1985 to 2007 Steve Lucas
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