Stefano Calcabrini has born in 1962 in Rome where he lives with his wife Monica and his two children, Luca and Sara. Since his childhood the passion for the sea has carried Stefano underwater; where he spent entire days at the discovery of a world that he considers bewitched. In 1979 he achieved his first underwater certification with the F.I.P.S.A.S. From that moment onwards apnea fishing monopolized his relationship with the sea. In 1992 another passion, "photography", pushed Stefano to the great change, the sparegun into the loft, the Reflex gets underwater. Since then Stefano shoots at fishes only with his Nikon camera. Through the years he participated to few national competitions where he obtained promising acknowledgments. The underwater photography boasted its communication skills and in October 2003 Stefano opened a personal Internet site to begins publishing images on the web. Stefano's objective is to share emotions with everybody and especially with people who havenever worn a mask. The hope is to provoke in at least one person the desire to undertake the way of the sea. In line with the spirit of true sea lovers, he likes to remember:

"it is my sincere hope that a better conscience of the sea, that for thousands of years has taught men the wisdom, once again will inspire the thoughts and the actions that will enable preserving the equilibrium of the nature and the life itself." --- Jacques Yves Cousteau

Technical details :
Stefano started taking underwater pictures with a manual reflex, the Olympus OM1N, a Nimar housing, a 28 mm lens and an Ikelite strobe 150D that he still uses and cares about. After several upgrades, including a self constructed dome for his underwater housing ( which is the most critical component of the underwater photographic equipment), Stefano currently uses a reflex autofocus Nikon F90x coupled to two Ikelite strobes, 150D and 200D, a small slave strobe and a set of Nikon lenses (105mm AF micro, 60mm AF micro, 28mm AFD, 20mm AFD, 16mm AFD).

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