Santa Cruz County's wastonishing display of craft and creativity will be on display for the first thee weekends in October during Open Studios.
We'll be open
October 5-6 & 19-20 from 11am to 5:30pm,
showing all our latest work plus dozens of favorites.
See our events page for the show guide, our location, and a map.
If you're a diver, surfer, ocean kayaker or just an observant ocean lover, you've seen kelp forests shrinking and in many cases disappearing altogether. Kelp forests are home to over 1,000 different species, more than any other ecosystem in California.
The state is working to formulate policy on how to respond to this ecological disaster. Marc Shargel is helping them, and the state wants your opinion. Please do a short survey here
(just 10 questions, mostly multiple choice).
Our subscribers on Patreon get gifts every month. From digital photos you can download to notecards to prints, our subscribers receive a stream of monthly imagery, news about our work and environmental updates. Subscribers also support our field photography and our marine conservation advocacy. Our supporters also get access to subscriber-only posts on Patreon. Subscriptions start at just $3 a month.
At higher levels you can receive notecards and prints bearing our photos, along with the digital pictures and information described above. Check out our page on Patreon!
You Can Do Your Gift Shopping With Us!
Fine art photo enlargements, books, notecards and mini prints are all available directly from this website.
A huge array of items bearing our photographic images can be ordered from RedBubble.com.
From t-shirts to socks, shower curtains to pillows, mugs to rugs, RedBubble.com has all kinds of gift items.
"I've seen a lot of changes in Central California's ocean since I began diving here in 1978. I first took a camera underwater in 1982.
Since then I've been using images to communicate the beauty and fragility of our marine life to people who might
otherwise never know about it."
— Marc Shargel
