About Annie Arena

Annie has been taking pictures most of her life, receiving her first camera at the age of seven. Her hobby has grown into her business, entering shows, competing in clubs, selling prints and taking portraits. She has received several awards in competitions.

Annie has received many compliments on her style of photography, making her subjects very relaxed and comfortable. She is very patient with children and animals using their personalities to capture them on film.

Annie currently has a show at the Atlantic City Aquarium (www.atlanticcityaquarium.com) featuring her underwater photography from Roatan, 30 miles off the coast of Honduras. The work will be displayed through the end of 2006.
In the spring of 2005 she spent a week driving, hiking and canoeing through the Florida Everglades taking hundreds of pictures of the flora and fauna.

Annie has always loved nature and enjoys taking photographs while hiking, boating and vacationing. She started scuba diving in 2000 and has made over 100 dives. She is Open Water, Advanced, Rescue Diver and Nitrox certified. She has dived in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania, but most enjoys the cold dark shipwrecks off the coast of New Jersey. She has worked as a state research diver for the State of New Jersey taking core sand samples off the coast of Belmar.