His photographs have appeared in hundreds of books, magazines, calendars, and other print media worldwide, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History, Sierra, Time, Science, Scientific American, Geo, Terre Sauvage, and BBC Wildlife.
[4] David Hall has written for photographic, scientific, natural history, and diving-oriented publications, and is the author or co-author of ten educational books for children.
[6] Of Beneath Cold Seas, Christopher Newbert (author of the best-selling Within a Rainbowed Sea) has said: “David Hall shoots with the inquiring and exacting eye of a scientist yet the soul and vision of an artist, combining the two to produce uniquely beautiful underwater images that educate as much as they inspire.”[7] Hall began scuba diving in the 1960s and photographing underwater shortly thereafter.
He discovered a love of nature and its inhabitants at an early age, and began photographing marine life primarily as a means to document the species he encountered.
Hall has photographed in more than thirty countries or territories, including Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador (Galápagos), Egypt, Fiji, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Micronesia, Myanmar, Netherlands (Bonaire), New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, St. Vincent, Thailand, and Vanuatu.