Category Archives: Waterways


Derek Bothereau: consultant and surfer.



These are the friends who helped keep me safe while I was doing some underwater location scouting last month. Thanks guys! Clockwise from top-left: Andy in wetsuit preparing to descend a rope ladder down a cliff, Christian posing at the bottom of a kelp forest, Tim hanging out at the surface, and Steve making a [...]


Even though I’m happy to have my Etsy shop up and running, I’m disappointed with how it looks. Each of these images is supposed to be a 28″ square print struggling to convey the enormity of the ocean. A good Etsy shop however is about conveying product, thus the ocean is delivered to you in [...]


Sunset view from The Wreck, my favorite restaurant in my hometown; Mt. Pleasant, SC, and yes that is a pair of dolphins swimming up Shem Creek like it’s no big deal.


Lately, I’ve been exploring more urban waterways. One of these takes water from Alameda County down to Los Angeles, the other takes run off water from the Oakland Coliseum parking lot and brings it to the San Francisco Bay.


Recently, I went out to do some location scouting for a car shoot. There are some salt flats in the bay area that are a lot closer than Bonneville or Black Rock. Unfortunately these salt flats are part of the bay’s tidal marsh and when I got there they were submerged under a foot or [...]


These are some photos of the ocean. They were taken somewhere between London and New York, 500 miles south of Greenland and two and a half miles above the ocean floor.