"The
Reef Series" wins 17th award
Congratulations
to Guy & Anita Chaumette, speakers at the May 2005
BSoUP meeting, on their most recent win!
Last
weekend in Russia, their film 'The Circle of Life' was awarded
with the "SILVER AWARD" for "BEST ANIMAL FILM"
at The Moscow International Film Festival Mosfest, Russia!
'The
Circle of Life' was part of the Official Selection & Award
Nominated for the prestigious "GRAND PRIX" of the
Festival, missing this highest spot by just one point and
coming in a close second!
This
is the first Festival participation for 'The Circle of Life',
'Episode 2' of The Reef Series', with the final film of the
series yet to be completed and brings the number of Awards
for 'The Reef Series', now released for TV Broadcasting, to
a grand total of 17 Awards!! |
Anita
Chaumette - Liquid Motion Films
Guy
and Anita run the multiple award winning underwater documentary
film production company Liquid Motion Film (www.liquidmotionfilm.com). |
SanDisk
Red Sea Underwater Photo Competition
Update
Prizes and give away Flash memory cards
First
Prize- 10,000 $ Cash, + 3 weeks Diving Trip for 2 to Papua
New Guinea with: Walndi, Loloata Resorts and aboard Star Danser
(15,000 $).
100
Flash cards of 1 Gigabyte for the first 100 enrollers - Free
of charge, as a gift by Sandisk Corp.
Sandisk
Red-Sea Competition, Eilat Israel, Feb 25th, 2006: Sandisk
Corp. and "Yam", the Israeli Diving magazine, has
announced today, the opening of the enrollment to the grand
underwater competition, "Sandisk Red Sea Underwater Photography
Competition", which will be held on April 24th-29th,
in Eilat, Israel.
Underwater
photographers from all over the world, has begun to send their
photos to the "Images of the world" category, and
also to the "Eilat Shoot-out Party". Sandisk Corp.
has announced that the first 100 enrollers to the Eilat's
Shoot-Out will receive a free Compact Flash or an SD flash
card - free of charge in Eilat.
The
SanDisk 2006 Red Sea Underwater Photography Competition is
open to both amateur and professional photographers, shooting
with film or digital cameras.
Selected
categories are open to competitors from all over the world,
whose photos can be shot at any time and from any location.
Contestants can send photographs in by mail. Registration
is now open and details available at: www.SanDiskredsea.com
.
"The last competition received a great deal of attention
among underwater photographers and divers from around the
world", said David Pilosof, the competition's originator.
"We expect even more entrants and press coverage this
year due to the larger prizes."
Other
events taking place during the April 24-29, 2006 contest include
an Opening Cocktail Party at the Eilat Red Sea Marine Park,
a Shoot-out party at the Dolphin Reef, the April 28 screening
of the Antibes film festival winning films and the April 29
Friday Show Party and Prize Ceremony at the Ambassador hotel. |
About
SanDisk: The contest is sponsored by SanDisk, the world's
largest Flash memory card manufacturer: www.SanDisk.com
About
SanDisk Red-Sea 2006 Underwater Photo Competition: SanDisk
2006 is organized by David Pilosof, renowned underwater photographer
and producer of the world famous "Samantha" album;
YAM, the Israeli diving magazine; and the diving portal idive
(www.idive.co.il). Additional sponsors include Isrotel hotels,
the Israeli Ministry of Tourism and the Red Sea Resort Tourism
Administration.
For
more information:
David Pilosof
www.sandiskredsea.com
Phone:
972-9-745-7055, Mobile: 972-52-480-8722
Fax: 972-9-741-1628
Email: info@sandiskredsea.com
Prizes
Eilat's
Shoot-Out
The
best 5 Images
First Prize- 10,000 $ Cash !!!
+ 3 weeks Diving Trip for 2 to Papua New Guinea with:
Walndi, Loloata Resorts and aboard Star Danser (15,000 $)
The
best Singular entry
First Prize- 1000 bottles of beer
+ 7 Days Diving Trip for 2 to Palau
Aboard Ocean Hunter ( 5,400 $ )
The
Judges prize
Seacam Housing for Nikon D-100 (5,000 $)
Mayor
of Eilat's prize
2,000 $ Cash !!!
For the competition's Album cover
Images
of the World
The
best 5 Images
First Prize - 3,000 $ cash !!!
+ 7 Days Diving Trip for 2 to the Red Sea
Aboard "Vip1" (2,200 $)
The
best color print
First Prize- 3,000 $ Cash !!!
+ 7 Days Diving Trip for 2 to the Red Sea
Aboard "Ghazala" |
| February
BSoUP meeting
TECHNICAL
TALK - ALEX MUSTARD: SHOOTING FISH
"Taking
pictures of the cool fish we see while diving is what prompted
many of us to pick up cameras in the first place" says
Alex. "However, great fish photos remain elusive and
are always a challenge". Alex will share his tips for
finding and getting close to the subject. He will also discuss
various options for framing, lighting and composing fish images.
As ever, Alex's talk will be full of tips and ideas to try
so don't forget your pen and paper.
Although
Alex is BSoUP's digital officer, this talk will appeal to
all photographers with an interest in natural history subjects.
Alex's fish pics have won him multiple awards at both the
BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and Antibes
Festival.
Alex
is a well known and regular speaker at BSoUP who I have biographied
many times, but here is some news - Alex's first book 'The
Art of Diving' is
being printed and is due for release at the end of the month.
A collaboration with Nick Hanna, the book is a celebration
and exploration of the world of scuba diving. David Doubilet
says "This is the best book about diving since Jacques
Cousteau's 'The Silent World'... Alex has a unique eye, this
is dynamic underwater imagery at its best".
FOCUS
ON COMPETITION - MONOCHROME - 2 ENTRIES PER MEMBER
If
you heard JP's talk at the Photoshop workshop last month now
is the time to put it into practice. If not, have a go anyway
if you have access to
Photoshop or similar, any image can be monochromed' and the
results can be
surprising. |
N.B.
Slides are still very welcome for monthly 'focus on' competitions,
portfolio competitions only will be projected exclusively
digitally.
For
all information and competition rules see Competitions - please send digital entries to competitions@bsoup.org or bring on the night.
MAIN
EVENT - SIMON ROGERSON: MAKING THE BEST OF IT
"When we dive, we are often presented with circumstances
and conditions that are...well...challenging" asserts
Simon, "accordingly, I would like to address this through
the experiences of a working journalist". Simon has had
to cope with low light, unpredictable animals, psychotic captains,
bad viz and worse divers all as part of his job. He will shed
some light on these issues through his own recollections and
photographs.
Simon
is editor of DIVE magazine. He started diving in 1992 as a
means of escape from his then job as a crime reporter. Joining
DIVE in 1999 he
became editor in 2002. Simon is also the diving correspondent
for the Sunday Times travel supplement and writes freelance
for various reputable (and disreputable) publications. He
is currently writing a book on the Red Sea for Adventure Sports
Publications. He has been taking photographs underwater since
his very first dive, with a Minolta Weathermatic, some say
the Minolta years may represent his finest work...
This
looks to be an excellent evening with masses of useful and
interesting information from a couple of highly accomplished
divers and photographers.
Do come along if you can.
Happy
snapping
gill mcdonald |
| Major
exhibition of BSoUP prints
The
annual BSoUP Splash-in will have a new look this year.
The National
Marine Aquarium in Plymouth will be hosting a display
of the prints entered in the Splash-in. The exhibition will
run from 10 June until 14 July and be seen by thousands of
members of the public. Until the day of the Splash-in, visitors
to the Aquarium will be invited to vote for their favourite
prints. Their votes will be combined with those cast at the
Splash-in to establish the winners.
Prizes
will be presented to the winners of each of the two print
categories (British and Open) - vouchers generously donated
by Ocean
Optics Ltd and Cameras
Underwater for use in their respective stores, plus a
year’s Aquarium family membership.
The
deadline for print entries will be some time in late May (exact
date to be advised shortly) and entrants will be asked to
submit two copies of their prints, one for display at the
National Marine Aquarium and one for display at the Mount
Batten Centre during the Splash-in.
The
On-the-Day Splash-in will run in the usual way on 1 July,
but this year there will be prizes as well as trophies for
the winners (as judged by members, guests and visitors to
the Centre) in each of the 4 categories (film and digital,
close-up and wide angle).
In
addition there will be a grand prize of a Red Sea holiday
generously donated by Tony
Backhurst Scuba for the best entry, as judged by an independent
panel.
We
are very excited about these new opportunities
Full
details: Splash-in 2006
Martha
Tressler
|
