An endless desire for exploration.

Wildlife and underwater photographer William Drumm has always loved the ocean and the incredible creatures that inhabit it. Motivated by a curiosity to uncover what lies beneath the surface and capture nature’s beauty on film, we dive into our latest installment of A Promaster’s Journal with a deeper look at the Citizen Promaster Aqualand.

We shot this episode on the southern end of the Baja Peninsula with the help of local fixers - wildlife photographers we met through Bill. The goal was to capture footage of Bill photographing the Mobula rays - a species of ray that schools by the thousands in the Bay of Cortez. One of our fixers Erick (who is featured in the film) gave us the requisite pre-nature shoot warning, “Don’t expect too much. Wild animals are unpredictable.”

Unpredictable indeed. What we ended up witnessing - and capturing on film and stills - was more than we could have hoped for in our wildest dreams.

Client: Hodinkee x Citizen

Talent: Bill Drumm
Director: Greyson Korhonen
Executive Producer: Samuel Grandchamp

Director of Photography: Joe Miller
Underwater Photography / Local Fixer: Erick Higuera
Photography: Greyson Korhonen

Editor: Greyson Korhonen
Color: Elliot Powell