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Selective Vision

Text and photos by Sara Shoemaker Lind

Q2 2026

With our finite time and limited light underwater, every image-capture quest is like a treasure hunt. We all have different ideas of what is treasure: It may be marine mammals, shipwrecks, reef corals, or icebergs. I like to go beyond a single underwater subject and look for something more abstract. Pattern, form, and color rule my world.

Kelp is the New Coral

Text by David Helvarg, Photos by Andy and Allison Sallmon

Q2 2026

Coral and kelp are the ivory and ebony of ecosystems: mirrored opposites. Coral thrives in warm, clear, low-nutrient waters, while kelp lives in cold, nutrient-rich waters that tend to be murky because of those nutrients.

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