Search - Site index

News - November 2006

Visions Print Competiton
Focus On 2006 Final
Beginners Portfolio Competition
Water Vision by Mirko Zanni
Beneath Northern SulaweSea by Michael Aw

Underwater Photography magazine
BSoUP Member Presents Photos To Queen
'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
Belgrade Film Festival
Antibes 2006

Lion fish by Arthur Kingdon

Visions Print Competiton

Congratulations to BSoUP member Arthur Kingdon who won the Visions Print Competiton at the Visions in the Sea festival in November 2006. His Lion fish and reflection (left) was taken on a night snorkel off the pier at the Coral Hilton, Nuweiba. with a Nikon D200, Aquatica housing, Nikkor 28-105mm at 31mm, twin Inon Z240 strobes. Arthur won a fantastic 10 day liveaboard trip with Odyssea Divers in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Congratulations also to BSoUP member Len Deeley who came second and third with his images of an oceanic white tip shark and silky shark respectively. Second and third prizes were £250 voucher from Cameras Underwater and £250 voucher from Ocean Optics respectively.

Entries were voted on by delegates at the festival, there were 68 entries in total.

Beginners Portfolio Competition for the DIVER Trophy

Congratulation to Kam Arya who won this year's Beginners Portfolio Competition. Kam was presented with the DIVER Trophy and a cheque for £100 kindly donated by DIVER Magazine.

Results

1st - Kam Arya (48 points)
2nd - Rich Smith (40 points)
3rd - Mike Davidge (37 points)
4th - John Wallis (35 points)
5th - Rosewarn (34 points)
6th - Tamsin Eyles (19 points)

Seahorse by Kam Ayra

Seal pup by Jane Morgan

Photographing Red Snappers
by Steve Jones

Focus On 2006 Final

Congratulations to Jane Morgan who's image of a seal pup (left) won this year's Focus On Final. Her image of the grey seal was taken in the Farne Islands, in the summer of 2005 with a D70 in a Sea & Sea housing. A black and white version of the same image won the Plongeur d'Or (1st place) in the Black & White Prints category at the Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous Marine (see below).

Congratulaions also to Steve Jones who came second and third! Steve's second place image of a photographer taking a photograph of Red Snappers (left) was taken at Ras Muhammed in the Egyptian Red Sea.

Tony Baskeyfield came fourth; Pedro Vieyra fifth; and Gavin Parsons sixth.

There were a total of 14 images comprising the first and second place images for each of the 7 months in which the competition was staged. So Jane's was judged to be the best of about 100 images.

Water Vision
by Mirko Zanni

Swiss born underwater photographer Mirko Zanni dives all over the world with his girlfriend and model Tanja Porta, and his daughter Asia. Mirko’s photographic tastes are diverse, his most favourite subjects are tiny fishes (for which he uses his macro lens) and spectacular wide-angle shots, taken wlth his prized 16mm fish-eye lens. His book, 'Water Vision', won the International Prize for a Book of Underwater Images in Antibes.

Further details www.mirkozanni.com

Beneath North SulaweSea
by Michael Aw

Michael Aw is a professional underwater photographer and the author of 'The essential guide to Digital Photography', ‘Beneath Bunaken’, ‘Richest Reefs’ and ‘Dreams from a Rainbow Sea’. His latest book ‘Beneath North SulaweSea’ is an update to “Beneath Bunaken” published in 1993.

Further details www.michaelaw.com

Underwater Photography magazine

The Nov/Dec issue of the FREE bi-monthly web based magazine Underwater Photography (UwP) is now available as a pdf at http://www.uwpmag.com/

This issue includes News, New Products, Product reviews, Underwater Photographer profile, Locations, Techniques, Marine Life, Underwater Photo Competitions, Book reviews and Parting Shot.

The magazine is produced by former BSoUP Chairman and current BSoUP member Peter Rowlands and includes articles by BSoUP members and others.

The Duke of Edinburgh, well known for his patronage of the WWF, was more interested in the species shown in the photos and where the photos were taken. I told him that the Snapper photo (which you can see in the photo above, left) was taken in Egypt, explaining that the Red Sea is so lush and colourful below the waves, quite a contrast to the desert above."

'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

There will be virtually nothing left to fish [or photograph] from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study.

Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.

More http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6108414.stm

10th International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade

The 10th International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro takes place from 8th to 11th December next. The organisers invite all underwater film makers to present their film or films.

Films for the contest must be 2005 or 2006. productions, with at least 30% underwater shots in BETA SP, DV Cam or MiniDV (PAL). Deadline for registration (for contest participants) is 15th November.

Competition admission is free. Full details at www.kpa.co.yu/

.
Seal pup - © Jane Morgan
Plongeur d'Or at the World Festival of Underwater Pictures in Antibes - B&W prints

Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous Marine, Antibes 2006

Congratulations to BSoUP member Jane Morgan, who won the Plongeur d'Or (1st place) in the Black & White Prints category at the Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous Marine, Antibes 2006 for her image 'Seal pup'.

Her picture of the grey seal was taken in the Farne Islands, in the summer of 2005 with a D70 in a Sea & Sea housing.

Delighted by the award, Jane commented that she was very pleased to see an image taken in British waters stand-up to pictures from more exotic locations.

Congratulations also to BSoUP's Alex Mustard who was awarded the Plongeur d'Argent (runner-up) in the same category for his image 'Stingrays at Sunset'.

In the Film “A” Category (professional movie productions), Alastair Fothergill and the BBC’s Natural History Unit won the Palme d’Argent (second place) with 'Shallow Seas', a documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough which will be broadcast in the UK as part of the next Planet Earth series. The Palme d’Or was awarded to Satoshi Okabe and NHK (Japan) for ' Equator - Rivers of the Sun'.

The BBC was further rewarded with a prize for unusual images given to “Dive Galapagos” by James Honeyborne. Full results