Ikelite Featured Customers TOP 10 for 2024! Peach's Pics [VIDEO]

Featuring Denise Pietsch

THANK YOU for making 2024 another great year at Ikelite! Your work is endlessly inspiring to us and you are the reason we can do what we love to do every day- design and manufacture the photography equipment you need to achieve your vision underwater. You all keep raising the bar and this year's selection of Featured Customers is full of unique and interesting work. Ikelite Social Media Director Denise "Peach" Pietsch shares her Top 10 favorite portfolios.

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Andrii Slonchak | Radiant Reefscapes

Andrii Slonchak is a research scientist in virology at a university in Brisbane, Australia. He began photography topside with a point-and-shoot in 2004, 17 years later and now he's been diving hundreds of times all across the globe exploring and photographing the world underwater.

Andrii's Featured Customer gallery is full of incredible reefscape images. I love his shots for their dynamic and crisp colors. Andrii is also a winner of an Australasia Award this year!

See more: Featured Customers | Andrii Slonchak Radiant Reefscapes

 

Gerry Blaksley | Filming in the World's Deepest Pool [VIDEO]

Get a look behind the scenes at a world's first underwater film feat! Gerry Blaksley captures an action-packed fight scene from the Matrix using the Sony Alpha 1 inside the Ikelite 200DL Underwater Housing while descending through the 60 meter (196.85 feet) shaft at Deep Dive Dubai.

See more: Featured Customers | Gerry Blaksley Filming in the World's Deepest Pool [VIDEO]

 

Luke Walsh | Commitment to Conservation

Luke Walsh is a really exciting underwater photographer from Florida. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia and shoots with a Canon R5 inside an Ikelite housing. His work is dedicated to conservation and protecting sharks. His images are very striking, and I love what his work stands for.

See more: Featured Customers | Luke Walsh Commitment to Conservation

 

Ryuijie | The Art of Underwater Photography on Film

Ryuijie is a returning featured customer this year. In a world of digital photography, Ryuijie is still shooting on film underwater which is amazing. His work has a zen-like aesthetic, which I really love. He shoots in the kelp forests of California and has a totally different look than you usually see.

See more: Featured Customers | Ryuijie The Art of Underwater Photography on Film

 

Ana Lucía Rodriguez Tinoco | Creating Visual Stories

Ana Lucía Rodriguez Tinoco creates an array of visual stories with her underwater photography. Whether she's working for a conservation organization or creating fine art portraits, her work floats above the rest.

I was particularly drawn to Ana Lucía's portfolio because of her wide range of styles. I love this split-shot image of a horse underwater, it's unusual and captivating, as are all her images!

See more: Featured Customers | Ana Lucía Rodriguez Tinoco Creating Visual Stories

 

Tony Cheng | Creatures Giant and Rare

Tony Cheng is an SSI freediving instructor living in Taiwan. Using the Sony a1 and a6300 inside his Ikelite underwater housings, Tony's photography focuses on underwater creatures both "giant and rare."

I was really drawn to Tony's leatherback turtle shots and the unique behaviors he is able to capture.

See more: Featured Customers | Tony Cheng Creatures Giant and Rare

 

Patrik Haltia | Klarälven to Moalboal 

Patrik Haltia is a Swedish underwater photographer who recently upgraded to the Canon R8. He shoots primarily in Norway and the fresh waters near his home in Sweden but also shared some photos from a recent trip to Moalboal. I really love this split-shot of the jellyfish underwater and the girl in the background. I feel like it tells a story and I love the tone of the image, very engaging.

See more: Featured Customers | Patrik Haltia Klarälven to Moalboal

 

Dave Stone | The Subtle Movements of Marine Life [VIDEO]

Dave Stone is a scuba guide in the Cayman Islands and shoots incredible macro video with the TG-7. I think his work is the prime example of how you can capture stunning results with a compact system.

See more: Featured Customers | Dave Stone The Subtle Movements of Marine Life [VIDEO]

 

Allegra Hutton | Catch-Your-Breath Moments

Allegra Hutton is an underwater photographer and travel enthusiast. She's hit seven continents and 60 countries so far in her travels. I love the whale images she included in her featured customer gallery, the mother and calf shots are very emotive and captivating.

See more: Featured Customers | Allegra Hutton Catch-Your-Breath Moments

 

Benita Vincent | Benni Marine Designs

Benita Vincent's gallery is one of my favorites because it's got two of my favorite animals in it: octopuses and leafy sea dragons! I also love that she turns her underwater images into textile designs. She creates scarves and neoprene mask strap covers with patterns inspired by her images of nudibranchs and mandarinfish. It's such a unique use of underwater photography!

See more: Featured Customers | Benita Vincent Benni Marine Designs

 

Thanks you for helping us make 2024 such a fun year! We can't wait to see what you create in 2025. If you want to see your work featured on our website, Weekly Newsletter, and across our socials share your work with us or tag us on socials #myikelite! 

 

Additional Viewing

Featured Customers | Greg Franco Diving in the Canon R10

Features Customers | Wessam Atif Flourishing Fauna of the Philippines

Featured Customers | Romain Vidal Backpacking & Scuba Diving Around the World

Featured Customers | Lee Engebretson From Phi Phi Islands to the Pacific Northwest

Featured Customers | Freddie Beckwith Underwater with the Canon R8

 

  

Denise Pietsch (pronounced “Peach”) currently manages Ikelite’s Photo School and social media presence. Denise hails from New Jersey, where she obtained a degree in Dance Therapy. After years teaching dance she migrated into the corporate world and eventually came around to Ikelite via the natural career path of fruit distribution and early childhood development. In the end, her lifelong love of photography and octopuses combined into the work she does now. In addition to sharing her energy and enthusiasm with the underwater community she also manages social media for her dog, Joe, collects vinyl records, and enjoys creating memories with her friends and family.