About Subsurface Media

Subsurface Media is a provider of stock footage, images, and contract underwater video and photography services. Subsurface Media is a venture of Creative Heads, Inc. of Sarasota Florida. Creative Heads, Inc. DBA Subsurface Media.

Subsurface Media Photographer Brian Dombrowski

photo by Dick Dickinson

Brian Dombrowski is a passionate diver and photographer from Sarasota Florida. Brian first started diving with a camera in 1989. Since then, he’s made hundreds of dives using film and video to capture the natural history of Florida's coastal waters, Florida's underwater caverns, and the Dry Tortugas. “I can’t remember the last time I made a dive without taking some kind of camera with me.” says Brian.

Brian’s images have appeared in magazine ads, newspapers, corporate publications, and in local Florida art shows. He’s shot underwater video for Captain Ron’s Ocean Explorer, a Florida sport diving TV series airing on Sunshine Network in April of 2004, and for television documentaries produced by Mote Marine Laboratory of Sarasota Florida.

Brian currently shoots underwater video using both the Sony VX1000 in an Amphibico housing and the new compact Sony PDX10 in a USVH housing. The PDX10 is a pro 3-chipDVCAM that shoots native full-resolution 16:9 wide screen digital video. “For true 16:9 wide format digital video, this is the next best thing to HD underwater.” says Brian.

For still photography, Brian shoots 35mm film using a Nikon N90s, Ikelite SLR housing, Ikelite strobes, and Fuji film. His favorite lenses are the Nikon 20mm, 60mm, and 105mm AF D-type lenses.

Brian is a certified NSS-CDS cavern diver and a TDI advanced nitrox and decompression diver. He considers himself blessed with a wonderful wife, Robyn, who also loves diving, and a beautiful, fun-loving daughter named Dara.