{"id":3653,"date":"2018-10-24T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2018-11-02T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:36:06","slug":"francis-perez-short-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/francis-perez-short-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis P\u00e9rez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/francis-perez-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">FRANCIS\u00a0 P\u00c9REZ<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">(Award-winning underwater photographer)<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><strong>\u201cWe live on a planet that is mostly water. Our lives, forest and air depend on our oceans. A dead ocean means a dead planet.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3284 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-100x100.jpg 100w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">Francis P\u00e9rez is a freelance professional underwater photographer who focuses on the submarine world with a unique style. His pictures show his own point of view in places such as Indonesia, Red Sea, Malaysia, South Africa, Mozambique, Philippines, Micronesia, Galapagos Islands, Mexico, Chile and Canary Islands, where he has focused on cetaceans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">UPF would like to express our hearthfelt appreciation for the support of Francis P\u00e9rez, who has graciously given us permission to use his award winning photograph \u201c\u2019Caretta Caretta Trapped\u201d. The photo shows a loggerhead sea turtle swimming entangled in abandoned fishing gear, off the coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the northeast Atlantic Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/francis-perez-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #dcdcdc;\">Read more\/Full bio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCIS\u00a0 P\u00c9REZ (Award-winning underwater photographer) \u201cWe live on a planet that is mostly water. 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His pictures show his own point of view in places such as Indonesia, Red Sea, Malaysia, South Africa, Mozambique, Philippines, Micronesia, Galapagos Islands, Mexico, Chile and Canary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-col11"],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1430,950,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-768x510.jpg",768,510,true],"large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez-1024x680.jpg",1024,680,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1430,950,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1430,950,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1200,797,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",858,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",600,399,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",600,399,false],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",376,250,false],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1016,675,false],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",400,266,false],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",510,339,false],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1080,717,false],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",400,266,false],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1430,950,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",1084,720,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",829,551,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",406,270,false],"album-thumb":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",120,80,false],"photo-thumb":["https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Francis-Perez.jpg",160,106,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ted Ollikkala","author_link":"https:\/\/unitedprogressivefraternity.com\/site\/author\/ted-ollikkala\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"FRANCIS\u00a0 P\u00c9REZ (Award-winning underwater photographer) \u201cWe live on a planet that is mostly water. 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