BSoUP
Meeting - Wednesday 17 June
Last
night's meeting of the Society kicked off with a presentation
by Ken Sullivan on "A different kind of light".
Ken explored different lighting techiques, including ring
flash, illustrating his talk with some excellent examples
of the same subject matter using different types of flash.
The
Focus On competition 'Macro' attracted 34 entries. The winner
was Alex Mustard with a balanced light shot of a flamingo
toungue mollusc viewed through the adjacent whips of its coral
host. Runner-up was Anita Marshall's macro shot of a goby
taken in Bonaire using a 105 macro lens. Ken Sullivan took
third place with his ring-flash balanced light shot of a lion
fish from below and in front, with the blue surface as a background.
The
Main Event was presentation by Alex Mustard entitled 'Capturing
coral reefs on their best behaviour - taking images that illustrate
the workings of the reef'. Alex, a marine biologist, prefers
to take images that illustrate aspects of coral reefs that
show movement and interactions between the reef and its inhabitants.
Starting with herbivores, Alex took us up the food chain to
the larger predators, illustrating his approach to photography
with some beautiful images.
Thanks
to Gill & Leslie (our mystery Committee member) for standing
in for John Langford.
Overheard
Tony
White apparently got seriously bitten by a shark whilst taking
photographs of a bait ball in South Africa recently and is
now sporting some impressive bite marks on his arm!
Our
beloved Hon. Sec. has had the collar removed from his neck
and is off to watch other BSoUP members dive in the Red Sea
next week. Sadly, Pat can't dive for another six weeks, although
he 'may snorkel'. |
