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BSoUP Open Portfolio 2005
December BSoUP meeting
BSAC Travel Club Photographer of the year
Sea & Sea equipment recovered

Martin Davies LRPS
Magic filters
Aquatica housing for a Fuji S2 for sale

Open Portfolio 2005 competition

Congratulations to Jane Morgan for winning the BSoUP Open Portfolio competition 2005.

Jane will be custodian of the trophy this year and wins a £100 cheque offered by the competition sponsor, DIVE Magazine and presented by Circulation Manager Gill McDonald.

Second place went to Alex Mustard, third to Len Deeley, fourth to Heather Hammond and joint fifth to Peter Scoones and Pedro Vieyra.

December BSoUP meeting

OPEN PORTFOLIO COMPETITION

Please email digital entries to competitions@bsoup.org

N.B. DO NOT send digital entries to Alex Mustard - if any entries have already been sent to Alex they will be OK. but no more please!

The Annual Open Portfolio Competition is open to both members & non-members. Each entry must comprise a portfolio of six images selected by the photographer. The six images may be submitted as 35 mm slides or as a single digital image.

If you are submitting your six images digitally then please see the guidelines at www.bsoup.org/Open_Portfolio/digiguide.php on resizing and preparing your images for projection.

Digital entries must either be submitted electronically by Tuesday 3 p.m. 20 December or brought to the meeting. The images may be taken anywhere in the world but not in an aquarium or pool.

The winner receives the BSoUP Trophy and a cheque for £100 donated by DIVE
magazine, who reserve the right to publish the winning entries.

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

Alcohol, yummy food, natter. That's it!

Seasons greetings to all and we wish you a peaceful and rewarding 2006.

gill mcdonald

BSAC Travel Club Photographer of the year

Congratulations to Gavin Parsons for winning the Open category of the BSAC Travel Club Photographer of the Year. Gavin's oceanic white tip shark shot secured him a free place on board Peter Hughes' Wind Dancer in Tobago as well as a framed certificate from the British Sub-Aqua Club.

The 2005 runner-up was last year's winner Pedro Vieyra for his shot of 3 manta rays. 3rd place went to Jim Greenfield for his mating woolf fish.

Sea & Sea missing equipment recovered

British diving equipment retailer Sea & Sea, of Paignton in Devon, which had announced the suspected theft of a large consignment of cameras, wide-angle lenses and underwater housings, has found its cargo safe and sound.

The equipment had simply been misdirected at Heathrow airport.

Martin Davies LRPS

Conngratulations to BSoUP Committee member Martin Davies, who has received recognition of his photographic acheivements by being awarded a Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS).

LRPS is the first level of Distinction awarded by the Royal Photographic Society and requires the submission of 10 prints, 10 slides, 10 images on CD-ROM, 10 minutes of slide sound sequences or 15 minutes of film or video.

Magic filters for digital underwater photography

Magic Filters are a new filter for available light underwater photography that have been developed by Wetpixel Co-Admin & BSoUP Competitions Officer Alex Mustard. The filters allow you to take colourful UW images, with your DSLR, with just ambient light, between the surface and 15m (50ft).

Magic differ from other UW filters as they are made as optical quality gels and are therefore compatible with popular wide angle lenses such as fisheyes and ultra-wide zooms. The filter is targetted at SLR lenses, and sold as pre-cut gels to fit them. At the moment we don't offer the filter for digital compacts (as UR Pro already make great filters for these cameras). We are selling the Magic filter to answer the problem that DSLR photographers had - that there weren't filters for our fave lenses. That said, if a compact user wants to buy a Magic filter and cut it with scissors to fit inside their port, we won't stop you.

Full details available at http://www.magic-filters.com/5.html

Aquatica housing for a Fuji S2 for sale

I have an Aquatica housing for a Fuji S2 digital camera - pic attached - the dome and extensions. I also have the zoom adapter for a Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 AF-S lens. It comes complete with half a trillion spare 'O' rings and is in a Tenba camera bag.