Stuart Marcus is a native Floridian, born in 1951 in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami Sr. High School and the University of South Florida. Stuart came to the Tampa Bay area in 1969 to attend USF. He is married and has three adult children. He currently resides in Lutz, Florida.

Stuart spent 18 years with the Tampa Fire Department. He retired 10 years ago when he broke a vertebrae in his back while fighting a multi-alarm fire at Hookers Point.

Over the years, he has designed and constructed custom furniture for area decorators, founded two companies, Sound Connections International, Incorporated and Sonic Images, Incorporated, both of which he is still President.

His involvement in the local arts scene dates back to the original Alice People’s Theater Company, where he served as company manager until grants could be secured to hire a full time manager.

Both Stuart and his wife Jeanette, who accompanies him on most of his photographic adventures and acts as his assistant, are staunch supporters of wildlife and environmental conservation.

Stuart’s photographs have been sold to private collectors here in the states and abroad. He has traveled to all seven continents in pursuit of wildlife.

The guiding principle of his work is to capture the natural behavior of wildlife with as little impact on the animals and their environment as possible.

All photographs are printed by Stuart himself in order to insure the quality of each print.