This photographer for National Geographic has one of the most breathtaking Instagram accounts you'll ever see
Doublet began exploring the underwater world at the age of 8, when he used a snorkel at a summer camp in the Adirondacks, according to his website.
This baby green sea turtle was photographed off the beaches of French Polynesia.
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He began photographing underwater at the age of 12, when he put a Hawkeye camera in a rubber anesthesiologist bag. The very first pictures he took weren't great, but he's mastered the underwater photograph since then.
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This young harp seal is waiting for it's mother to return to Magdalen Island in Quebec, Canada.
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He's now spent five decades taking his camera below the surface of the water.
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Doubilet seems to capture emotion in faces of the animals he photographs.
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Doubilet's wife, Jennifer Hayes, is a photojournalist and biologist who specializes in marine environments.
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The two own a studio and live together in Clayton, New York.
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In this amazing shot, a grey seal in the Gulf of St. Lawrence tries to bite Doubilet's camera.
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Doubilet has a remarkable ability to capture pristine moments, some calm and some alarming.
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In this shot, he takes the Milan fashion collection underwater with model Meghan Heaney Grier.
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He explains that this anemone has lost it's color due to coral bleaching.
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If this photo doesn't make you want to visit the US Virgin Islands, I don't know what will.
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Doublet says his personal mission is to, "create a visual voice for the world’s oceans and to connect people to the incredible beauty and silent devastation happening within the invisible world below," according to his website.
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His job is, "certainly not the easiest job in the world. At times it's downright crazy," he told National Geographic in a 2003 interview.
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Speaking about what it's like to photograph the underwater world, he said, "you leave this world as a trespasser, and go briefly into another. It's a world that's most of our planet, yet we see it only so briefly."
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"We've had people in space for maybe a year and a half I guess, but yet underwater I think the longest that people have been able to stay down there is 30 or 40 days," he continues.
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Doubilet is acutely aware that the world he photographs is being destroyed.
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Why conserve the ocean? "Because it is beautiful," he says.
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For Doubilet, the coral reef is "a place that's flooded with light, yet has the most intense colors of any other environment on the planet. We can't destroy this, we have to hold onto this thing and pay attention."
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Doublet explains that many nature photographers learned how to study animals by hunting. " I used to be a spear fisherman for a few years, but I never liked it," he said.
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"If your object is to educate, the only way to make people aware is to make an image that astounds—not amuses—but astounds," Doubilet said.
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Doubilet's work takes him across the world, from Papa New Guinea to Antarctica.
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Lucky for you, he takes his Instagram followers along for the ride.
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Now for some Instagrams that aren't that pretty...
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