Masa Ushioda

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Masa Ushioda purchased his first underwater camera in 1989 and started photographing Japanese marine wildlife while working as a dive master on Miyake Island off Tokyo and around Izu Peninsula in Suruga Bay. After graduating Waseda University in Tokyo, he decided to pursue his interest in the world of photography. He attended the University of Miami in Florida, majoring in Fine Art Photography. During his free time he made countless dives in the Florida Keys and Bahamas in order to capture Caribbean underwater scenes for his art. After successful photo exhibitions at museums and galleries around South Florida, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography.

Masa started working at SeaPics.com, a stock photo agency specializing in marine wildlife photography, in Miami, Florida in 1997, and relocated to Kailua Kona, Big Island of Hawaii with the company that summer. In Hawaii he was completely fascinated and inspired by the pristine Hawaiian ocean and the unique creatures living in it, in particular, by the large marine animals. He began concentrating on photographing whales, dolphins, sharks, and other large pelagic fish around Hawaii. In 1998 he founded his own company, CoolWaterPhoto.com LLC, which represents his entire collection of stock photos for licensing for commercial and industrial uses, as well as selling his art prints to collectors, museums, and aquariums worldwide. His photographs are also represented by many renowned stock photo agencies and galleries around the world, and are featured internationally in hundreds of magazines, books, calendars, other commercial graphic products, TV programs, and advertisements every year.

In January of 2014, Masa Ushioda took over the SeaPics.com, Inc., and has been engaging in a day to day stock photography business. Highly specialized SeaPics.com library has grown to contain over 300,000 exceptional quality, wildlife, underwater pictures, representing over 300 premier wildlife photographers worldwide. Masa soon realized that the stock photo collection of the company was outgrowing the realm of sea pics and needed a new trade name to encompass all the land animals and landscape images of the world. In 2019, he rebranded the SeaPics to Blue Planet Archive and launched the whole new website, BluePlanetArchive.com. Blue Planet Archive now offers the best images of all kind of animals and places of this planet Earth, from the aerial perspective to the underwater.
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