REEF founder Paul Humann has passed

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While I never got to meet him personally, I’ve been using the 1st & 2nd editions of his fish ID books (Florida & Caribbean Reefs) for over 30 years and regard them as near Biblical in their accuracy and information. RIP, Mr Humann, you touched us all!

Charlie 🐸 Shaeff
 
I don't think you can truly appreciate the quality of his work without seeing some of the competition. When I was diving in the Galapagos, the boat's skipper showed us a reef fish book published by someone else. The best pictures were OK, but only OK. Many were absolutely useless. I tried some fish photography for a while and then realized I was best suited for the absolutely useless variety. His work was consistently excellent.
 
I went back and found a clip of Paul in a video I took of him in the Galapagos in 1993. Kinda grainy but it was 30 years ago on Hi8 tape. :cool:

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One more of Paul.

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I don't think you can truly appreciate the quality of his work without seeing some of the competition. When I was diving in the Galapagos, the boat's skipper showed us a reef fish book published by someone else. The best pictures were OK, but only OK. Many were absolutely useless. I tried some fish photography for a while and then realized I was best suited for the absolutely useless variety. His work was consistently excellent.

Amen brother, you’ve got a witness! And when you consider all that work was done on film! I would shoot a roll on one of my Nikonos cameras and if I got two or three recognizable fish it was a good roll! There have been very few worthy to carry Paul Humann’s camera bag!
 

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