The annual Beginners Portfolio Competition for
the DIVER Trophy attracted only 11 entries. Each portfolio was
projected twice and the audience present invited to vote for their
favourite three.
Fourth place with 47 points went to GARY CLARK.
Third place with 50 points went to DARIO NAVARO. Second place with 62
points went to MARTHA TRESSLER. The winner with 86 points was SUE
HEAPS.
Sue from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, was unable to
be present at the meeting,. She was, however, "surprised and
delighted to receive the DIVER Trophy and cash prize of £100"
donated by Bernard Eaton of Diver Magazine at her branch (Stevenage
Sub-Aqua Club) annual meeting two weeks later.
Sue undertook her first Open Water dive ten years
ago. Four years later her husband, "who could never be persuaded to
get his face underwater", gave her a Nikonos III and Sunpak Marine 32
flashgun as a present. "Thousands of prints and slides and several
underwater photography courses later (not to mention the trail of
flooded equipment), my photography progressed slowly. A few years ago
I acquired a Nikonos 801S and a second-hand Subal housing, but I
still have my faithful Nikonos III for natural light shots and as a
backup."
All of Sue's slides were taken in 1997 in the Red
Sea on two different live-aboard trips out of Sharm-el-Sheikh, using
a Nikon 801S in a Subal housing. Lenses used were the full frame
fish-eye, 20mm and 60mm macro.
Sue's portfolio comprised a fire coral and
sunburst taken at Little Temple, a close-up of fire coral at South
Laguna, her buddy on the wreck of the Carnatic, pin cushion urchin
spines taken at Little Temple, and eagle ray taken at Ras um Sid and
a close-up of a soft coral taken at South Laguna. Apart from the
wreck shot, which was taken using natural light, Sue lit her shots
with a Sea and Sea YS120 or YS50 flashgun and used Fuji Velvia for
close-up and mcaro shots and Fuji Sensia for natural light for
wide-angle shots.
BSoUP Beginners
Portfolio Competition
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