Underwater Photography Courses for Beginners, Print Photos on Canvas

Photography & Underwater Photography Courses, Ocean Gifts & Prints, Print Your Photo on Canvas, Personalised Gifts, Snorkelling Courses

Welcome to my multi-award winning photography work where my life's passion is raise awareness of our oceans and to help you bring your own images to life through a range of photography courses, personalised gifts and canvas prints. The first person who I helped start with their underwater photography whilst living in Mexico, Erick Higuera, a National Geographic Explorer, regularly has his work featured on the BBC's Blue Planet, David Attenborough's Mammals and has a Netflix movie "Oceans" released next month narrated by Obama, the US Ex-President. 20 other guests have won prizes, written for and become Editors of Magazines, such as DivePhotoGuide.

I'm Maria, who've been run over twice, a passionate shark stalker, best-selling author who has been a dedicated ocean advocate since 1997 supporting many marine conservation organisations worldwide and even going undercover at a shark and manta ray fishing market in Indonesia to collect data of numbers being fished help get mantas protected through the CITES Convention held in Bangkok in 2013, where five shark species and two species of manta rays were promised more protection. I was also a proud British Divers Marine Life Rescue Marine Medic for Dorset and have raised thousands of pounds for UK marine conservation organisations, disabled divers and the RNLI through my work.

I also love showing visitors unique images of Dorset's incredible underwater scenes, the incredible marine life that we can find on our shores and how beautiful recycled products can be made from single-use plastic and keeping our oceans clean.

I also give motivational and photography talks, write for magazines, create unique ocean gifts from my images and love to chat all things marine conservation.

My first book on underwater photography (first published by Wiley Publishers - that's the creator of the "Dummies Brand") has been the 12th Best-Selling Book in the world. You can see all of my photography work on my sister site at www.oceanvisionsphotography.co.uk.

The whole space is designed with an ocean theme from gift cards to prints and ocean images from around the world, including many local ones of Dorset, to inspire that everyone can take incredible images with their phones, compact cameras, mirrorless or d-SLRs.

Services Offered

Underwater/Landscape Photography Courses for Beginners
iPhone/Mindfulness Photography Courses for Beginners
Your Photos on Canvas & Personalised Gifts in One Hour
Photo Restoration/Photo Scans to Prints
Handmade Unique Local Purbeck & Dorset Underwater Prints & Gifts
Handmade Unique Wildlife & Ocean Gifts & Prints
Snorkelling Courses through Scuba Schools International

My dream is to encourage as many people as I can into our beautiful underwater world and give them them the confidence to create award-winning images and help design stunning gifts.

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Swanage in Dorset. I'm open every day except Monday from 12 pm to 5 pm or just message me at thelittleoceanstudio@gmail.com if you plan to visit outside these times. I'd love to put the kettle on and help you too.