{"product_id":"blue-visions","title":"Blue Visions by Richard Salas","description":"\u003cp\u003eJump in feet first on an adventure with Richard Salas. Experience the undersea world of the Pacific Islands of the Americas as 22-foot whale sharks slurp up microscopic plankton to fill their enormous bellies. Get up close and personal with massive bait-balls of bigeyed scad as they scramble in the afternoon heat, dive-bombed by ravenous jack mackerel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Richard through his journal entries. He brings us along on his dives as he swims with hundreds of hammerhead sharks, laughs at the grimace of the red-lipped batfish, and shares the peace and vulnerability of a sea lion at rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou'll discover a new relationship to sharks and learn about the plight of many of the animals in Richard's underwater family. They face multiple threats, including the practice of \"bycatch,\" and the trawl nets, longlines, and gill nets of our frighteningly efficient and mechanized fishing industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book suggests a more conscious and caring relationship with the beings revealed in these images, and expresses the author's deep conviction that we are one. Richard experiences that oneness when he dives, and his images bring to his readers that same transformational experience. Our lives are inextricably linked with the life of the ocean. The future condition of life on our planet is in our hands and depends on the decisions we make in the coming years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a hardcover book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Salas is a man on a mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe's personally introducing our marine life brothers and sisters to everyone he meets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis first book, Sea of Light: Underwater Photography of California's Channel Islands, was a stunning revelation to many who thought the Channel Islands underwater world was a cold and desolate place lacking the color of its Caribbean cousins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen, in fact, it's a beautiful kaleidoscope of color and abundant life. Now, in Blue Visions: Underwater Photography from Mexico to the Equator, he reveals more incredible life forms, illuminating them and sharing their unique personalities in captured expressions. Richard lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife Rebecca and his youngest son Richard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more of Richard's photography and to purchase any of the photographs in this book, please visit:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewww.seaoflight.net\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewww.askphotography.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewww.askphotography.smugmug.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Salas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39764780810319,"sku":"CON-8032","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0287\/8767\/1119\/files\/IMG_7342-Edited.png?v=1771702071","url":"https:\/\/store.calnatureartmuseum.org\/products\/blue-visions","provider":"California Nature Art Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}