Photographer Mike Coots lost his leg to a tiger shark and has since become one of the staunchest advocates of sharks, dedicating his life to protecting the animal that nearly killed him. From lobbying Congress, to sharing compelling stories on social media, he’s optimistic that the world can shift the negative stigma of sharks. Coots has been featured on CBS, NBC, CNN, MSN, PBS, Discovery, Time magazine, Yahoo!, Google, the Washington Post, National Geographic, BBC, AOL, the New York Post, Adventure Journal, Reader’s Digest, Smithsonian magazine, Outside magazine, TMZ, Vice, BuzzFeed, and the Daily Mail. He has written for CNN and the Huffington Post and spoken to the United Nations. He created a petition about the importance of protecting sharks in the North Western Hawaiian Islands; resulting in the largest protected area on Earth when signed into law in 2016.

Kainehe Hunt – Golden Wave Surf Photography Print. "I've shot this backwash for years with no one around, and it was always a dream to have someone ride it. This wave is unique—an ocean explosion forms when a wave rolls up a sea cliff and back down to the ocean, meeting the next wave in chaos. On Thanksgiving evening a couple years back, I was heading there to shoot and ran into Kainehe Hunt, and he suggested the offer to try and ride a few. It was very difficult to shoot (and ride I could imagine), but we lined one up and magic happened." – Mike Coots Perfect for bold spaces, surf-focused interiors, or collectors of golden hour surf art, rare wave moments, or limited-edition ocean photography.

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