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Next
BSoUP Meeting
Wednesday
21 July at 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m.
Holland
Club, Sherfield Buidling, Imperial College, London, SW7.
WORKING
WITH FLASH - PETER LADELL
Peter will
explain how to control flash light underwater, also how to
test and compose the light for a variety of different types
of picture.
Peter has
been taking u/w pictures for about 20 years, achieving many
competition successes ranging from BSoUP's own 'In Focus'
to British Gas
Wildlife, St. Abbs annual splash-in and the CMAS world championships.
He is lucky to have dived in the fantastic waters of Norway,
Indonesia, Belize,
the Red Sea and South Africa as well as most of Britain, which
is still one of Peter's favourite dive locations. Along with
being a BSoUP committee
member, he is currently Chairman of the u/w photography group
Photosub and just to make life interesting, designs and builds
his own camera systems, and also modifies other systems to
individual requirements.
FOCUS
ON COMPETITION:
THEME:
FISH - 35mm SLIDES
We will
soon be introducing regular digital competitions, in the meantime
we are still running with slide format. Maximum two 35mm slides
of Fish, visible dot on the bottom left hand corner as you
wish the slide to be viewed, no sticky labels please. (N.B.
jellyfish, cuttlefish etc. are NOT
fish!)
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SPLASH-IN
2004 REVIEW - BRIAN PITKIN
Society
President Brian will present the winning slides, digital entries
and prints from this year's successful Splash-in competition
in Plymouth at the beginning of July.
THE
WORK OF A POLICE DIVER - ANDY CLARK
Andy will
talk about his fascinating work as a member of the Underwater
Search Team. Andy joined Thames Valley Police in 1992 with
a single aim of becoming a police diver. 'I had no real interest
in general police work and no real aspirations in promotion.
All I wanted was a career in diving'. After a gruelling seven
years on the beat, Andy's determined dream was at last reality.
"You never really know what each day will bring as a
police diver and we've been involved in some amazing crime
investigations".
Andy is
in a specialist department that was the first Underwater Search
Team in the country in 1956! Today, although the team specialises
in diving, they also perform many other roles in order to
offer greater support to investigating officers. They cover
106 miles of the River Thames together with all other waterways
in Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire and serve a growing local
population of about 2.3 million people in just over 2200 square
miles.
Should
be a very interesting evening.
Gill
McDonald |
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BSoUP
website redesigned
As
you can see the layout of the website has changed! The 'frames'
(containing the BSoUP header and vertical navigation bar)
have been removed from the old version (image right) to make
it possible for you to bookmark any page and to facilitate
printing. The knock on effect of this is that a new horizontal
navigation bar has had to be created
In
the process of creating the new navigation bar (beneath the
header, see top of this page and image right) the opportunity
was taken to add more direct links to additional features.
As every one of the 516 pages on the website had to be edited
to incorporate the new horizontal navigation bar and BSoUP
header, the layout of all pages has been standardised. The
size of the images on the Home
page is now larger than previously.
Please
let me know what you think of the new design. E-mail Brian
Pitkin. |
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Tony
White in 'Cheating Death'
National
Geographic Channel
Monday
12th July (UK)
Sunday/Monday 18th/19th July (Worldwide)
Tune in
to the National Geographic Channel next Monday 12th July to
see fellow BSoUP member and regular speaker Tony White in
the compelling documentary 'Cheating Death'. The hour long
film charts his return to photograph the famous 'Sardine Run'
in South Africa following a serious shark incident the previous
year. In June, 2002 Tony's arm was badly
injured by an enthusiastic copper shark in the thick of a
bait ball when the shark accidentally mistook Tony's right
limb for a tasty sardine buffet. Immediate rescue was followed
by a fortuitous hitchhike on a passing light
aircraft then a two and a half hour operation involving 58
metal clips, 10 days recuperation and 4 months on dry land.
Despite this traumatic experience, Tony strongly stresses
this was an accident and despite being in
the water, surrounded by blood and sharks, after the initial,
mistaken hit he was left completely alone. Tony avers this
is dramatic proof that sharks really do not like eating humans. |
Tony bravely
returned to Mkambati on the East South African coast last
year to re-photograph the marine equivalent of Africa's great
annual migration, and also to undergo an important personal
healing process, facing and
overcoming the fear barrier he experienced at the time and
rebuilding his damaged confidence. It was a poignant, difficult,
sometimes frustrating but ultimately hugely rewarding journey.
The film
includes other BSoUP members accompanying Tony, and also provides
a
wonderful representation of Africa and the diverse marine
wildlife they encountered. Also apparent is the strong bond
of camaraderie between underwater photographers including
Doug Perrine and Peter Lamberti who were
present. There is a steady, exciting build up to the last
day when the truly dramatic action took place, together with
a realistic depiction of raw underwater photography on location
which can seem like an emotional pendulum, swinging between
the extremes of a frustrating, tedious waiting game to some
of the best days of the photographers' lives.
National
Geographic is available on Sky on the basic family package.
Visit Tony's website at www.seaofdreams.co.uk
for information about his work and underwater photography
courses. |
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Splash-in
Barbeque - 3 July
We
have arranged for a barbeque for participants and their friends
and family in conjunction with this year's BSoUP Splash-in.
The
barbeque will take place between 7.00 and 8.00 p.m. on Saturday
evening 3 July on the patio adjacent to the Waterside Room,
at the Mount
Batten Centre, where the slide projection and judging
will take place.
A
bar will be provided in the Waterside Room to save you having
to trek up and down stairs to the upstairs bar! |
Cost
of the barbeque, with a vegetarian option, will be £8.00
per person. Tickets are limited! Only 40 are available, so
if you want one please contact Brian Pitkin today (Wednesday
30 June) at brian.pitkin@virgin.net
OR in person at the Mount Batten Centre on Friday evening
or Saturday morning (2-3 July). Payment must be made no later
than 12 noon on Saturday 3 July.
Alternative
food and drink is also available from the upstairs bar (see
Mount
Batten Centre under' Food and Drink' for daily menu). |
