Beneath the Surface (fixed-layout eBook, ePUB)

Beneath the Surface: Exploring Breath, Body, and the Wild Within is a hybrid book that weaves personal storytelling, creative reflection, and fine art photography into a deeply immersive journey. Inspired by decades of photography, freediving, mountaineering, and a lifelong connection to wild places, it explores what it means to return to oneself through breath, stillness, and presence, especially when the path forward has been altered by physical limitation, trauma, or profound change. Structured around elemental themes like Mystery, Stillness, Gravity, Belonging, Light, and Transition, each chapter invites the reader into a contemplative space. Paired with writing prompts, breath-based meditations, and accessible photographic exercises, the book encourages deep engagement with nature, creativity, and the quiet landscapes within. Rooted in a life shaped by wilderness and redefined by physical limitation Beneath the Surface is not just a memoir, it‘s an invitation. Readers are guided to slow down, see differently, and reconnect with the body and the breath as tools for grounding, healing, and expression. The photography throughout serves not only as visual accompaniment, but as presence, as witness, mirroring the immersive rhythm of the book itself. This is not just a story, it‘s a space to reconnect. Through breath, photography, and creative reflection, Beneath the Surface invites readers to explore the deep, both beneath the ocean‘s surface and within the self. It is a book about survival in all its forms, and a call to rediscover what matters most. Whether you‘re using a professional camera or a phone in your pocket, whether you‘re drawn to the ocean, the forest, or the stillness of your own breath, this book invites you to come home, again and again, to the wild within.