I used to live there but I now live here.
Antarctica-McMurdo Sound 1968
Antarctica-McMurdo Sound 1984
Lake Baikal, USSR-1990
Bikini Atoll 1991
Hawaii-1992
Yarmouth, ME 1/17/2005
Owen Departs for 2nd Semester UMaine
Mount Townsend, Eastern Olympics, August 9, 2007
Bill Curtsinger was born in Philadelphia, grew up in southern New Jersey, and moved to Maine in 1972.
He attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Arizona State University in Tempe.
He was a member of the elite Navy Photo Unit, Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group based in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1967 to 1970.
He graduated from U.S. Navy Dive School in Key West, Florida, Navy Parachute School in Lakehurst, New Jersey,
and attended various U.S. Navy Flight Crew training units in the Norfolk area.
For almost four years he traveled the world on special assignments for the
Commander In Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, and his CO the great Gerry Pulley. He won several awards with his coverage of air carrier flight
operations and Naval aviation. He qualified to fly in the F-4 Phantom and A-6 Intruder to carry out his photo assignments.
He was made an honorary member of the world famous Red Rippers, VF-11, for his photography of the squadron including
the first color front and back covers in Naval Aviation News. He has been a freelance photographer since leaving the U.S. Navy in November, 1970.
He moved to Washington state in 2006.
Unit Patch-Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group
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Night Carrier Ops, USS Forrestal, CVA-59
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F4 Phantoms From VF-11, Hooks Down Enter Landing Pattern, USS Forrestal, CVA-59
USS NARWHAL (SSN-671)
In addition to underwater, natural history and marine archeology photography,
he has photographed people, culture, environments and wildlife for many clients.
He has photographed thirty-three articles, (six cover stories) for the National Geographic Magazine.
The March 1999 issue of Life Magazine has a story he photographed on the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Other photographs and stories have been published by Smithsonian, Outside,
Time, Newsweek, Audubon, Natural History, Islands, Terre Sauvage, Aqua, Experiment, Unterwasser,
Airone, Stern, Geo, Paris Match, New Look, London Sunday Express, Sinra, Shukan Asahi, BBC Wildlife,
Bonniers, to name a few. His work is also included in numerous text books, encyclopedias and aquarium displays.
He and his long time diving partner, Eric Hiner, co-produced a National Geographic Explorer TV short on
Gray Reef Sharks, broadcast first in 1995, and every year since. The first two sample video clips can be seen on this web site in the Video section.
He has photographed seven books and had his work published in hundreds more;
"WAKE OF THE WHALE", written by Kenneth Brower, and published in 1980 by E.P. Dutton, N.Y., & David Brower of Friends of the Earth, San Francisco.
"His photographs of whales, seals, and dolphins that appeared in Wake of the Whale, were the first look at many marine mammal species in their natural habitats around the world, and helped launch an international interest in whales, seals, and dolphins, and their plight. To date, there is no single photographic collection of marine mammal images equal to those published in Wake of the Whale.".... David Brower, 1999.
"THE PINE BARRENS SPECIAL EDITION", written by John McPhee, published by Farrar Strauss & Giroux, NY, 1981.
"MONK SEAL HIDEAWAY", written by Diane Ackerman, published by Crown Books, N.Y., in 1995.
"SEA SOUP I", Phytoplankton; a children's book about phytoplankton,Tilbury House, Publishing, December 1999
"SEA SOUP II", Zooplankton; a children's book about zooplankton, Tilbury House, Publishing, March, 2001.
" LIFE UNDER ICE": a children's book about underwater Antarctica,Tilbury House, Publishing, June, 2003.
"EXTREME NATURE", Retrospective, Written and photographed by Bill Curtsinger, White Star Publishers extremenaturebook.com October, 2005