Chris, could I use some of your pictures in a book I'm wreiting entitled Fly Fihsing Two-Story Lakes. If so, what is price and how do I contact you? I could use photos 10, 57, 96, 112, 153,and 173 if price is right. Phone 845-849-1930

Hello Chris, thanks again for joining us at the swim session.  The kids loved it.  I think your website is amazing!  Now I see where you find your "piece", your centeredness!  I will be back to see updates!
Diana

Inspirational! Your love of the underwater world has given us images that truly can move us to help protect our unique resource. These are images that only a love of the sport and the resource can provide. Thank you.

Incredible photos,
The only thing I would change on this is the font you use, it hard to read

Exceptional work, all divers should see this.

Magnificent!!

Your pictures of the lake Michigan underworld rival any of the things I have seen in my many trips to the caribean.

Call me soon.. 231 6207657  ...We need to finish this article together.. thank you.. Gary

Sweet pictures!  I will be doing my first dives in Lake Michigan this coming year and I think I now know where I am going!

Can you contact me please so I can get specific directions to that area?

Thanks.

Will

I'm an avid freediver in Santa Barbara California and did some diving this year in canada and Michigan, and realized it's wonderful (I'm originally from Michigan).  But your photos are unreal, and prove that it's all about what you make of a dive.  Excellent adventures, thanks.

I would really like to buy the Lake Trout Photo of 2/27/2006 by Christopher Morey - largest size available for my son. HOw can I contact him?

Wow, What great photos

Chris,

I met you and your buddy at Elmwood May 12.  I should have stuck around and done another dive, just to watch you work.  Your photos are really great, and I also enjoyed the video of the bowfin.  I'll be watching for you the next time I get up to TC.

Wow , these are great photos , who would have ever guessed that the Great Lakes could be that beautiful. Thanks for sharing them with us.

I'd love to dive with you this spring.  I think I say that camo. wet suit the other day.  Email me if you freedive on some type of schedule...Great pics!

Ryan

Just Beautiful for You to Share Your Diving Time With Us Feesherman.I now know what I am looking at,even with out a Mask On!Thank You!

wow, thise pics are amazing.  Thanks for sharing

nice pics amigo..

Met you at the Bay the other day and introduced ourselves, Thomas and Margaret.  Great site, what a place of beauty and love you enter each time.

Im exited and can't  wait to dive and explore  this place. There is nothing like that around Chicago Area. I would like to get some information about the place where exactly it is and where   the pictures  were taken.
Im beginer in marine fotography and this place is just like paradise for me.
I be thankfull  for some information about it.
Thank You.

PS. This  picture galery is more like great.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are spectacular photos. I really love the hues of blue, green, and everything in-between. Looking at your pictures made me realize I only know fish if it comes to me on a 5x8 inch styrofoam rectangle, covered in plastic wrap and sealed with a price tag. I have even more respect for stories about spearfishermen cooking their own catch. There is a lot of work between catching, cooking, and dining! Well done.

Hey Chris -

I'm a scuba diver out in California, and we met just before one of your winter dives in Grand Traverse Bay a couple years ago, when I was in the area visiting my folks.

I'm active in a volunteer diver fish survey program called REEF.  They don't have a Great Lakes program yet, but I'm encouraging them to consider setting up such a program, using your photos (and Nancy Washburn's snorkelling book) as an example of the broad range of fish species that Michigan divers can see.  If you have a moment, check out www.reef.org, and let me know via e-mail (jwolfe@igc.org) if you'd be interested in a similar program in Michigan.

As always, super-impressed by your photos and dedication to diving.

Happy diving -- John Wolfe

i freedive with my camera here in Southern California and i have to say that your pictures of freshwater fish are absolutely fantastic, the best i have seen anywhere! As you know, it's all about the subject and that chance encounter.. it looks like you have put tremendous effort into compiling a whole host of different fish species. Fresh water gives me the creeps, so i admire you bravery and tenacity~

Thanks for sharing...

Brad

(loves the sea)

Amazing photos. Could you tell me please did you use any flash or light to take them? My e-mail address is v_tgr@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance and good luck.

Amazing job! The clarity of all the shots are austounding. Now I wish I lived in Michigan...

Lovely site...however you disabled the right click, I wanted to copy a few pics and add a large SHARK stalking you guys. Russel Crow "is the Croc Hunter" playing at a theater near you.
Your Pal Rover

Wow, those are great photos!  I grew up in Michigan near the Saginaw bay.  And, you photos bring back great memorys of being a kid there.  (I live and freedive in SoCal now.)It's amazing what the zebra mussels have done for the water clarity, at least in Lake Huron.  I'm sure they've helped Lake Michigan too.  Thanks for sharing your photos!

Cya,

jr

Dude! Those pictures are great! I would never have believed that Lake Michigan waters could be so clear.  I'm impressed to say the least.

Chris,
Very nice!  I am astounded by the variety of the fish you encountered.  Please email me-I have some questions for you.

Eric

Really great photos. Nice to see such clear water. My daughter Sandra who lives in Traverse City sent me these. She grew up in San Diego eating platters of abalone and many of the other goodies from those great Southern Calif. waters. I had the good fortune to know many of the early underwater photographers. I dove for 35 years and am now retired in Oregon. Thanks for the sharing of your fun experiences and photos. Larry Beaver

Great Pictures!  I live in Grand Haven Michigan and do some freediving in Lake Michigan as well.  I am actually in Europe and just finished freediving in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea for a few days.  It would be cool to come up and dive some of these spots with you sometime.  Here is my email address.  
benbraymer@hotmail.com

Again Great Photos of our fresh water seas!

Beautiful images! They keep me sane when i am at work.......keep posting more!

Thank you.

michigan is an wonderful and  mysterious place. the photos are incredible showing  a side of michigan that many of us miss.. i would love to link you to my site www.theartistmarket.org ........ there is a set of books called mystic michigan that deal with all kinds of  bautiful and mysterious thing about michigan that i recomend checking out..againg the photos are wonderful... i think i like the witer photos the most....

These are the most amazing underwater photos i have ever seen. Awesome job! I never realized that the great lakes are soo clear. I dive the east coast and have wish for water that clear.

Would love to see pics of the train engine in East
Twin Lake in Lewiston.  They would look great hanging in the musuem there! hint hint lol

Beautiful pictures. You might want to dive in East Twin Lake in Lewiston, MI. There is a train engine it the lake.

Chris - These photos are incredible.  Peaceful, engaging, inspiring, humorous.  Thanks for sharing your joyful experiences underwater with the rest of us!

Hey Chris - It was great meeting you last Sunday at West Grand Traverse Bay as you were about to wade into that coooold water.  Very cool fish pics - showed my dad, who knows his Michigan fish better than I do - Gar Pike, Smallmouth Bass, Steelhead, Salmon, Perch, and a mermaid... very cool.  Had a good time celebrating my dad's 80th; will return sometime this summer.  If you want to see some (amateurish) photos of central California kelp forests and fish, check out my wife's and my website: www.imageevent.com/arnellandjohn .   Best fishes !!

absolutely fabulous ...spellbinding photos.!!! an education in itself just looking at them.i was trained in scuba diving many years ago and still practice and maintain my love and respect for what's beneath the surface of the water....but have not yet seen sights down there like how and what you have captured on film.  please keep up the great work you two do and perhaps fellow divers, snorkelers, and even some topside dwellers will gain a greater respect for what lies below. GREAT JOB both of you. perhaps someday we shall meet in the water. keep in touch if you'd like and please keep updating yoor site. THANK YOU both (3/6/06)

Great pictures. But a dead fish picture? :)   Good job.

Really nice pics! I am a freediver from Sweden that recently moved to Michigan... Are there any fellow freedivers in this area? Would be fun to atleast have contact with a few and even better do some diving! As I said! really nice pics!

These photos are amazing!  They remind me of paintings by an artist I once read about that paints under the water in oils.

I really enjoyed your photo's. Is this a difficult thing to do? expensive? I loved snorkling in the carribean sp could you please write? I have more questions...paul

I love your hobby!! I have only snorkeled in the Carribean, where can I learn to do this properly and safely??Wonderful pictures

Thanks so much for sharing! You should try Torch Lake sometime.

What a fascinating thing to do ...and to share it with your  daughter is the   most wonderful gift you could give her...

Glad to see an exhibit of the beauty of the Great Lakes.  You must have great patience and a good eye to capture these shots.  Bravo!!
Also glad to see a "Westie" featured in the local paper.

Chris, its been along time. I was reading the paper at work saw the article. couldn't get all the pictures to come up so I'll have to wait until I get home. I remember diving with you when we were kids, your right the bay has changed. It looks like that there are still carp. Have you seen any big ones. Send me an e-mail so we can get it touch. Great work.

Hello Chris. I have a blog called "Michgan in Pictures" (michpics.wordpress.com) and would love to feature on of your photos. Pleae send me an email or call 231-256-2829.

WOW! Beautiful!!!

Thanks Chris, these are beautiful pictures. You and your daughter have something beautifull going.

Jack at SN was telling us about you and your daughter the day before your article was featured in RE.  What a coincidence!  We freedive also, but in warmer water.  Maybe we'll try earlier this season.  We loved your cool pictures.  Thanks!

Way cool. I used to dive 30 years ago and I have forgot what it all looked like Thanks

I really like this set up and site, great work Nag