Article Summary:

National Geographic has published an article in their “Milestones” feature entitled “Milestones in Underwater Photography”. It features many curious and historic pictures, including the first color photograph from underwater, which was taken a shot of a hogfish, photographed off the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico by Dr. William Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin in 1926.

Equally fascinating is the fact that in order to get this shot, the photographers had to use highly explosive magnesium flash powder to illuminate the fish.