Wes Skiles has a wealth of exploration, photography and cinematography credits to his name.His work has spanned the globe, from the world’s deepest caves, to the largest glacier everrecorded, and from the deep ocean depths of the Pacific Northwest, to the wilds of the AfricanSavanah. His photos have been published in National Geographic, Scientific American, andhundreds of other publications. Scanning the television, views will find his work on all the majornetworks, as well as Discovery, and A&E. As an expedition cameraman, Skiles specializes incapturing images of people and wildlife on the edge of extreme frontiers. His visual imageryprovides the viewer with an intimate understanding and unique perspective of his subjects.Skiles works on assignment as a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine.His work has also been featured in Outside and numerous diving publications. Skiles is equallyskilled in the art of telling stories though moving pictures. He has produced, directed, andfilmed over a hundred television films, many of which have won international awards and acclaim.As a native Floridian, Wes was one of the first humans to explore, map, and documentmany of North Florida’s most treasured springs. Over his lifetime he has explored over 300,000feet of previously unexplored passages within the Florida Aquifer. These unique experiencesexploring the state’s drinking water, combined with a deep love for his native state, have drivenhim to be one of the most vocal advocates for preserving and protecting Florida’s preciouswater resources. Wes has worked on challenging IMAX productions, and was the Director ofUnderwater Photography for the MacGilliveray/Freeman production “Journey Into AmazingCaves”. A partial list if his film and video credits include: Producer & Director of Photographywith the PBS television series New Explorers, winning eight awards in seven years; Producer,Director, Writer and Cameraman for the one hour adventure education special Ocean Spirit;producer, writer and cameraman for A&E’s “New Explorers, Polluting the Fountain of Youth”.Last year, he was Director of Photography for PBS’s Time Warp, where he and his team tackledthe formidable task of lighting and capturing images filmed at speeds up to 250,000 frames persecond! One of his most recent projects saw him filming blue hole caves in the Bahamas forWGBH’s “Extreme Cave Diving”, a project that follows a fearless team of scientists as theyventure into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea levelwas nearly 400 feet below what it is today.