Walt Stearns

Palm Beach Gardens

Editor at Scuba Diver Magazine

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Positive Side of Negative Space

1 week ago | underwaterjournal.com | Walt Stearns

Thumbing through a favorite dive magazine, you can’t help but notice that a good number of the feature stories open with a two-page spread that uses a single large image that is overlaid with the feature’s title and the story’s opening text. Above is a sampling showing four different Scuba Diver Magazine spreads that I had written for this publication. What do all these images have in common?
7 REASONS WHY WAKATOBI IS A FAN FAVORITE

2 weeks ago | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Nighttime is “The Right Time” at Wakatobi

1 month ago | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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All is Well at Wakatobi

1 month ago | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Wakatobi’s Flash Mob

2 months ago | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Diving Your Way at Wakatobi

2 months ago | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Wakatobi’s Wall to Wall Paradise

Jan 14, 2025 | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Getting the Big Picture at Wakatobi

Jan 7, 2025 | divernet.com | Walt Stearns

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Tips for Photographing Mandarinfish - Underwater Journal

Dec 14, 2024 | underwaterjournal.com | Walt Stearns

Having the best of the best underwater camera setup money can buy is not the key to getting great mandarinfish shots. It’s about using what you have and knowing how to use it. On a DSLR or Mirrorless (full frame or APSC), the preferred lens is a 50 to 60mm Macro. For a Four Thirds, a 30 to 45mm macro should be all that you need as you can get quite close. Marco lenses with a longer focal length will do the job, but you won’t have as much depth of field even at F/32.
Mandarinfish Twilight Rendezvous

Dec 14, 2024 | underwaterjournal.com | Walt Stearns

Sunset was close at hand, and we were getting ready for a twilight dive on Magic Pier in Pasar Wajo Bay on the southeast coast of Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Regularly visited by the Pelagian, a 10-passenger luxury live-aboard dive yacht operated by Wakatobi Dive Resort, the Pier is known for something really special – mandarinfish! Lots of mandarinfish!If you haven’t yet seen a mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus), here’s what you’re missing.