The Photographer

Wolfgang Pölzer was born in 1969 in Hallein, a small town on the countryside of Austria. He is one of a few in his country, who is taking underwater photos as a full time job!

He did his master in biology with a work about the little goby "Gobius bucchichii", the only anemone fish of the mediterranean sea at the university of Salzburg/Austria in 1994. Besides he is sometimes working as dive instructor. Taking part and winning in many photo competitions, he is quite well known as underwater-photographer. Among a lot of international prizes, there are specially worthy of note: The gold medals he got on the CMAS-World Championship Of Underwater Photography in 1998 (category "macro") and in 2002 (category "wide angle"). And also the gold medal on the Antibes Festival in 2000 (category "black & white").

Today Wolfgang Pölzer is working as a free lance journalist and photographer for several diving-, travel- and nature-magazines. He also works for stock agencies and writes books. In his underwater photography he is not limited - he does not care about water temperature or sea- or freshwater. He likes to take pics of whales in tropical waters just in the same way as babys in an Austrian pool!