Introducing Our Photographers

Barb Roy

Barb has worked as a freelance photojournalist and contributing editor for a variety of different magazines and on-line publications since 1995, specializing in underwater adventure, destination travel and other marine-related activities. She first learned to dive in 1979 and currently holds a PADI Master Instructor rating, Instructor ratings with IANTD, NAUI, DAN and a Normoxic Trimix rating with IANTD. While business and marketing are her background trade, Barb also enjoys participating in and writing about kayaking, fly fishing, hiking, caving, birding, destination and people profiles, equipment and book reviews, underwater archeology and marine science. Before moving to British Columbia Canada, Barb ran a dive store and dive travel business in Alaska for twelve years. A Nikon D70 and N90 are her cameras of choice, used in Aquatica housings with both Ikelite and Sea & Sea strobes.

  Barb's work has been published in the following magazines: Skin Diver, Discover Diving, Diver Magazine in Canada, Diver Magazine in the UK, Sport Diver, Wreck Diving, Northwest Dive News, Northeast Dive News, Wave Length Kayaking Magazine, X-ray On-line Dive Magazine, Octopus Russian Magazine, Northwest Travel Magazine, the PADI Undersea Journal, California Dive News, Diver's Ocean Planet, Western Diver, Alaska Outdoors Magazine, Aqua Magazine, and several news papers in Alaska and Washington State. Her photography has also appeared in various visitor and tourism guides within British Columbia, Canada.       

Ron Akeson

Ron learned to dive in 1976 while in college, and later graduated with a degree in Marine Biology in 1978. He then worked for three and a half years teaching science, diving and island ecology at the Catalina Island Marine Institute in California. Currently Ron owns and operates Adventures Down Under in Bellingham, Washington. He holds recreational and technical Dive Instructor ratings with PADI, IANTD, TDI, SDI and DAN. Ron specializes in marine life identification, wreck exploratory expeditions, deep-wrecks, geology and birding. A Nikon N90 in an Aquatica housing with Ikelite strobes, and a Sony 3-chip high-definition video camera in a Gates housing are his choice systems.

Wayne Grant

Wayne took up diving in 1996 while working with WR Marine in British Columbia as the Superintendent in charge of ship preparation for the Artificial Reef Program organized by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia (ARSBC). In all, Wayne helped to clean and prepare six ships. His specialty areas of interest include shipwreck research and exploration. Wayne shoots with a Olympus 5050 digital camera and a JVC digital video, both in Ikelite housings.