Cute Dogs Underwater Funny Pictures of Dogs Underwater
A few years ago, award-winning animal lensman Seth Casteel became an overnight sensation when his photos of dogs underwater went viral. What followed was a book deal that resulted in the New York Times best-seller Underwater Dogs.
Casteel's new volume, out Sept. 16, is possibly the only thing cuter than Underwater Dogs: Underwater Puppies.
Casteel tells NPR'southward David Greene about using rescue dogs in his photo shoots and nigh the logistics of photographing puppies underwater.
Underwater Puppies
Interview Highlights
On where he got the thought to photograph dogs underwater
[It was] non even my idea, actually; it was a canis familiaris's thought, which makes sense.
Buster the cavalier Male monarch Charles spaniel, back in 2010. At an on-country photograph shoot, he decided he would rather be in the swimming pool, so he just started jumping in, over and over once more. I was supposed to merely document his personality through a series of photographs on land, but he had other plans. And after he merely kept jumping in over and over again ... I'm jumping in! And so, yeah, [I] got a picayune signal-and-shoot underwater camera, took a few snapshots, and that was the commencement of the series of Underwater Dogs. ...
This petty dog changed my life. I was simply telling somebody the other day, you know, the original book, Underwater Dogs, it really shouldn't accept my name on the cover; it should say, "Underwater Dogs by Buster ... with a petty help from Seth Casteel."
On why he decided to use puppies in his new book
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Dogs was just such a random project, and information technology became successful out of nowhere. It changed my life, literally, overnight. And I was thinking about other things that I wanted to do: What's the next project? I thought, "Hey, puppies. Can I do puppies?" And what I found out was not simply could I do it, only I needed to do information technology for a couple of different reasons. No. 1: swimming pool safe — super-duper important for all the listeners out there with their pets. So many people forget that our swimming pools, as much fun every bit they are, they are a danger, and they tin exist a danger to our children and to our fur children. And they will learn. I mean, a lot of these puppies I work with — for Underwater Puppies I worked with over 1,500 — all it took was just a few times, putting them in the water and didactics them where the get out is, and they figured it out.
On many of the book's puppies being rescue dogs
That'due south some other big part of why I wanted to brand this volume. I got started in photography back in 2007 just through volunteering at local creature shelters to take improve pictures to get the dogs and cats adopted. I thought, "Hey, let'southward employ some incredible adoptable puppy ambassadors only to show people how terrific these piddling guys are."
On the logistics of photographing puppies underwater
I'k wearing a canis familiaris costume so that the dogs can feel similar I'm 1 of the pack. ... But kidding. ... I usually just wear a wet adjust just in instance. You know, if you spend 12 hours in a pool with a bunch of dogs, inevitably you're going to become scratched upward a petty bit. So I do wearable a wet conform. But I just hold my breath — that's about it. I'm underwater sometimes just a few seconds, sometimes 30 seconds, sixty seconds. Only I accept my wet suit on. I bring the toys. I bring the fun. And nosotros just have a blast.
On what information technology is virtually puppies
Yous know, puppies elevator our spirits. They don't care who yous are, what you've been doing, where you're going, they but want to dear you and they but want to be your friend. And I think that'south always going to make united states of america experience good.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2014/09/09/346840505/9-ridiculously-cute-underwater-puppies-youre-welcome