Michael muller photographer

For most of his career, photographer Michael Muller has gotten up close and personal with celebrities like "Iron Man" Robert Downey, Jr., and Olympian Michael Phelps. While lauded for these glossy portraits of the famous, for the past decade, the Los Angeles-based photographer has directed his lens at the pearly whites -- make that 15 rows of pearly whites -- of more unlikely subjects: sharks.

Muller set out to document the much-feared and misunderstood ocean dwellers with the same kind of attention to detail and dynamic flair that he brings to a Hollywood promotional shoot.

To capture this unique view of a wide variety of sharks -- from hammerheads in the Bahamas to great whites off the coast of South Africa -- Muller headed underwater, free from a cage, with a patented seven-bulb, 1,watt plexi-encased strobe lighting rig developed with the help of NASA engineering.

The end result is a new page book, "Sharks: Face-to-Face with the Ocean's Endangered Predator," full of strikingl