passion - this brings inspiration

Make a list, whether one thing or many, that you feel something about. Is there something that you like? Are you deeply passionate about something?

There is not a right or wrong answer, the important thing is was is it that you really like.

Susan J Roche water portraits
Susan J Roche fine art portraits
The things you are passionate about are not random. They are your calling.
— Fabienne Frederickson

In 2013, while swimming I kept envisioning how people could be beautiful photographed in the water. My first camera housing was a used water tight photographic bag- it was about 500 keeping my thousands of dollars of equipment safe. It worked with limitations.

Then I found these amazing cover built with glass over the lens and back with stretch rubber. Initially - loved them so I bought a second for about a 1500 investment. Now, this idea was not profitable and people who knew me thi=ought maybe my investments should be elsewhere both with my finances and my money ( we were still rebuilding from the devastation of Super Storm Sandy).

The thing was I needed to do this.

Now, a few years later I have lost not just one but two high end cameras to water leaks (it is not if but when as an underwater portrait photographer) my equipment now includes scuba camera housings.

I cannot explain it, I love doing this, I love what images come form this, love the artwork the flows from this. Passion.

Susan J Roche fine art underwater portraits