Welcome to Beauty Below

Beauty Below is the culmination of a lifetime spent exploring the underwater world. Built over decades and across countless dives, the project celebrates the remarkable beauty, diversity, and mystery of life beneath the surface through photography, stories, and a growing series of publications.

“Everything you can imagine is real”
— Pablo Picasso

The Project

Beauty Below is more than a collection of underwater photographs. It is an ongoing project to document, preserve, and share the extraordinary diversity of life beneath the surface through thoughtfully curated imagery, personal stories, and future publications. Every image is part of a larger journey, one that invites viewers to see the underwater world with a renewed sense of curiosity, wonder, and appreciation.

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Featured Stories

Stories
A Mouth Full of Future
A Mouth Full of Future

A yellowhead jawfish may look like a small fish in a hole, but there is much more happening below the surface. This story looks at patience, repeated dives, and the remarkable behavior of a male jawfish carrying fertilized eggs in his mouth.

Why I Like the Small Stuff
Why I Like the Small Stuff

For years, I looked underwater for the big thing: the shark, the turtle, the perfect wide-angle scene. Later, a 60mm macro lens taught me to slow down and see what I had been swimming past: fish portraits, textures, patterns, color, and the small lives hidden in plain sight.

Are the Colors Photoshopped In?
Are the Colors Photoshopped In?

Underwater color is not always missing, it is often hidden by water, distance, and light. This story answers a question I hear often: whether the colors in my underwater photographs are Photoshopped in, or whether proper lighting simply reveals what was already there.

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About Jon

For more than four decades, Jon Kreider's life has been shaped by the water. From commercial fishing and teaching diving to captaining live-aboard expeditions and photographing marine life around the world, every experience has contributed to the images and stories that define Beauty Below.

Discover the journey behind the project and the experiences that continue to inspire it.

Meet Jon

Publications

Over the years, these photographs have appeared in books, magazines, educational publications, and commercial projects, reaching audiences around the world. Each publication represents another opportunity to share the beauty and diversity of the underwater world, while Beauty Below brings that lifetime of work together in one place.

Coming Soon

Let’s Connect

Whether you're a publisher, editor, curator, collector, sponsor, potential project partner, fellow photographer, or simply someone who shares a passion for the underwater world, I'd love to hear from you. Beauty Below continues to evolve, and meaningful collaborations often begin with a conversation.

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