Protect Sea Turtles with a Postage Stamp! [VIDEO]

Featuring David Fleetham

This June the US postal system issued a set of stamps featuring six different species of turtles that are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Ikelite Ambassador David Fleetham shares his thoughts on having his green sea turtle image featured in this historic stamp set. 

 

The shot that they used of mine, the green sea turtle, was just a head-on intimate shot of the turtle looking at the camera. I have shot thousands and thousands of sea turtles. They're a favorite subject, especially in Hawaii where they’re protected; and on many dive sites they just ignore divers and photographers.

There's six different species of sea turtles that are on the stamps. Mine is a green sea turtle, but two other photographers from Hawaii are also featured there, Doug Perrine and the late Jim Watts, who are both good friends of mine.

It was great to end up with that image on the US postage stamp.

The original photo that was turned into a US postage stamp. This was shot on an early model of the Canon 5D using an Ikelite Underwater Housing and Ikelite DS161 Strobes. © David Fleetham
 

Order yours before it's too late!

Celebrate the magic of sea turtles, order your stamps from U.S. Postal Service today.

 

Ambassador David Fleetham left his hometown of Vancouver, Canada, for Maui in 1986 and never looked back. He earned his USCG Captain's license while working in various dive charter businesses, shooting, and submitting his photos to magazines and businesses. One of the most prolific underwater photographers of his time, David now has galleries and agents in over 50 countries that reproduce his images thousands of times each year. Read more...

 

 

 

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