About Denise Nielsen Tackett & Larry
Tackett
Larry
and Denise are the authors of this section of our website, and
are considered experts about the diving in Indonesia. Since they
have spent the better part of the past 20 years living and photographing
the area, this reputation is deserved, as they know as much about
the diving there as anyone does. They have also graciously given
us permission to use the incredible photographs featured in this
section.
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Denise & Larry Tackett |
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Hippocampus denise |
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Larry and Denise lead tours and offer photo workshops on several
boats operating in Indonesia. You can view their travel itinerary
on their website here. Below is a bit more about Larry and Denise's
background in their own words. We hope you enjoy their descriptions
of this amazing country. Please email to John
Williams or Bent Posejpal if you have any questions about any of this information
presented here.
"We are professional photographers specializing in underwater
and terrestrial natural history and travel subjects. When we're
not diving or photographing, we teach photography, give photography
and travel related presentations and lead seminars and workshops
internationally.
'We are represented by stock photo agencies in the
US and United Kingdom and our photographs have been widely published
in books and magazines worldwide. Our work has appeared in magazines
such as National Wildlife, Islands, BBC
Wildlife, Skin Diver, Ocean
Realm, Asian Diver, Unterwasser, Tauchen, Canadian
Wildlife, Popular
Science, Sport Diver, National
Geographic Kids, Geo, and many others.
'We were contributing editors to the now defunct Skin Diver magazine
and now serve as Travel Editors to Asian Diver magazine and contributors
to Sport Diver magazine. We are advisors to Coral Realm ,
a web-based marine animal natural history and dive travel database.
Denise co-authored the travel book, Insight Pocket Guide: Maldives. Our
first marine book, " Reef Life, Natural History and Behaviors
of Marine Fishes and Invertebrates " was published in 2002.
Our Reef
Life calendar, featuring some of our best images, has been
published annually for several years.
'Our
work has been featured in a segment of an Ushuaïa
Nature episode about Sulawesi and we were the subject of
a National Geographic Television Sea Stories episode
featuring Denise's work on pygmy seahorses. We've also contributed
to BBC and National Geographic Television productions about the
mimic octopus. In recognition of Denise's work with
pygmy seahorses, a newly
described pygmy seahorse species has been named in her honor: Hippocampus
denise.
'We're available for assignment work and speaking engagements.
Please
contact us for current rates and scheduling. Cost savings
can be considerable when overseas work is coordinated to take advantage
of our existing travel schedule.
'We lived in several tropical Indo-Pacific countries for 14 years
and we continue to spend several months a year traveling internationally.
When in the US, we reside in wild, wonderful West Virginia.
Our Equipment
'We use Nikon F-4 cameras with a variety of lenses for above water
work. For underwater still photos we use Nikon F-4 cameras, action
finders and lenses in Nexus F-4 Pro housings with dual Ikelite
200 strobes and Ultralight strobe arms. When shooting greater than
life-size images, we use a Nikon 105mm micro lens and any combination
of Nikon dual element +1 and +3 diopters, a Nexus external +3 diopter
and/or a Kenko 2X teleconverter.
'We shoot underwater video with a Sony DCR VX-2000 video camera
in a Gates Products Diego housing and an Amphibico housing. We
use a single Kowalski video light (50W) that we either handhold
above the subject or mount high on the housing and/or dual HID
lights. For very small subjects we use a flat port and diopters
to enlarge the subject. We use a tripod for video whenever possible.
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