Photographer Eric Engbretson began shooting underwater photographs in 1993. Today he has several thousand images taken underwater from the lakes and rivers of the Great Lakes region. Based in northern Wisconsin, Eric lives about an hour away from the largest concentration of freshwater lakes in the world. Needless to say, the thousands of lakes in this region offer abundant opportunities for underwater fish photography.

Using underwater cameras and lights, and scuba equipment, Eric spends seven months of the year underwater in the lakes and rivers of the upper Midwest to find and photograph native freshwater fish in their natural habitat. What makes these images unique and different from the few other photographers who supply images like this is that he's working in the water with the fish, and not shooting captive aquarium fish. His subjects are wild, live, and unrestrained-free to swim away from the camera at any moment. As you can imagine, shooting fish "in the wild" is often difficult and time consuming, but the pictures he's able to get are truly authentic and original.

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