A hermit crab makes itself at home in a colorful shell at the Blue Heron Bridge in Florida. (Photo by Gabriel Jensen '12)
At sunset, you can often find Gabriel Jensen ’12 putting on his scuba gear and loading his camera rig onto a boat with other underwater photographers.
“We dive about five miles offshore into the inky, dark Gulf Stream to water that’s about a thousand feet deep,” says Jensen. “We jump in and drift.”
Jensen uses flash and magnifying lenses to capture tiny deep-sea creatures that are drawn to the surface each night to feed on algae and other marine organisms. Only a fraction of the blackwater life he photographs has been identified in the scientific world.
Read the entire story and see Jensen's photos in the latest edition of the Geneseo Scene.