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News - November 2008
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November BSoUP
Meeting
BSoUP's Beginners Portfolio
Competition
Epson Red Sea World of Underwater Images
Underwater Photography Magazine - latest
issue
UnderwaterChannel.tv at DEMA
Website of the week - Anthony
Holley
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Gift
ideas
BSoUP at DIVE 2008
BSoUP/RPS Distinctions Workshop
Eurotek 2008
Website of the Week - Mark and Eugenie
Hardy
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November BSoUP
meeting
The next BSoUP meeting takes
place on Wednesday, 19th November 2008 at 7.30 for
8.00 p.m. at our usual venue the Holland Club, Imperial College, S.
Kensington, London. Directions.
Technical Talk:
Strobe colour temperature: implications in the digital age by
Alex
Mustard.
Annual Event:
Beginners Portfolio
Competition for the DIVER Trophy. Rules and Guidance and
Entry form. (See also
below)
Main Event:
Moving out of the comfort zone by Alex Mustard.
N. B. The
AGM has been rescheduled for 17th
December.
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Alex Mustard
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© Anna James' winning portfolio in 2007
© Anna James - self
portrait
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BSoUP's Beginners
Portfolio Competition
The Annual Beginners Portfolio
Competion will be held at the next meeting of BSoUP on Wednesday 19th
November. The competition is open to members and non-members alike,
provided that they have not come first, second or third in a national
or international competition, such as BSoUP's Open and Beginners
Portfolio Competitions, BSoUP or St Abbs Splash-Ins, Image, U/W
Photographer of the Year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Marine
Conservation Society etc.
Eachphotographer must submit a
portfolio of six images. Digital portfolios may be submittedonline
using the CompetitonsEntry
form by10pm on 18th November.
Please read the Rules and Guidance notes
before entering.
All portfolios will be judged by
the audience present at the meeting. The winner will receive the
DIVER Trophy and a cheque for £100 donated by DIVER Magazine, who
reserve the right to publish the winning portfolios.
BSoUP members
only may view all the entries in projected order in the Competition slideshow.
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Epson Red Sea World of
Underwater Images
Our friends at DivePhotoGuide.com as well as the organisers of
the event are covering the Epson Red Sea World of Underwater Images
Competition in Eliat with video clips, daily reports and
images.
The "Eilat shoot out" started
this week and runs through until Saturday, when an outstanding
$80,000 worth of prizes will be presented to the winners in several
categories.
Nigel Wade who
won the DIVER competiton to take part in this year's event is
representing the magazine and the UK and Ireland. The entries for
that DIVER competition may be viewed at www.divernet.com/ and you can view more of
Nigel's images at www.wadeimaging.com/
Visit DivePhotoGuide.com and www.eilatredsea.com/ to view coverage of the
event.
For more information, regarding
the rules and regulations, schedule, enrolment and hospitality -
please check the competitions website (available in 9 different
languages): www.eilatredsea.com.
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UWP 45. Cover Photo by Alex Tyrrel
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Underwater Photography
Magazine - latest issue
The latest issue of the FREE
Underwater Photography Magazine (UWP) is now available for
download.
Issue 45 includes an Editorial,
News and Travel, New Products, Olympus Mju770, Cheap pole-cam, Patima
Canon G9, Sony A350 and BS Kinetics, Wetpixel review, King of
Prussia, Great White, Chalkidiki, Bimini magic, East Kalimantan,
School's out, Coding a vessel and Parting Shots.
To download your copy visit
http://www.uwpmag.com/
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UnderwaterChannel.tv at
DEMA
Attention armchair divers! With
a little help from your computer and a high-speed internet
connection, it's possible to slip beneath the waves anytime,
anywhere - without even having to get wet!
The Underwater Channel (UWC) is founded by Emmy
award-winning filmmaker, Nicholas Claxton and
powered by Babelgum. UWC's latest program is:
Our DEMA Special! From Las
Vegas! DEMA is the world's biggest trade show attended by around
10,000 industry professionals. Julie Anderson (US
Face of the Channel) and equipment specialist Steve
Barsky meet some of the key figures of the dive world and
bring you the newest dive gadgets, gear and gizmos! Join them in this
3 part voyage of dive discovery!
The Underwater Channel also hosts a wide range of
professionally produced documentaries from underwater film makers
covering natural history, marine conservation, expeditions, creature
encounters, scuba adventures and everything in between!
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UnderwaterChannel.tv
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Anthony
Hollley's website |
Website of the week -
Anthony Holley
Each week we are highlighting a
BSoUP member's website.
This week's choice is Anthony
Holley's Nudibranchs website. Anthony was introduced to nudibranchs
when he started taking macro pictures back in 1985. His site includes
some of the hundreds of nudibranchs he has seen and photographed in
over 3,200 hours of diving in over twenty countries.
To visit Anthony's Nudibranchs
go to www.holleyuwphoto.com/
If you are a
BSoUP member and your website is not included on the
BSoUP member's websites page, please
send the URL of your site to the BSoUP Membership
Secretary, Mike
Russell.
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Gift
ideas
Prints make ideal gifts. Why not
buy one from a BSoUP Member this
Christmas?
We invited members to send in a
couple of images as a sample. Several responded and their images are
reproduced on this website at Prints.
Alternatively, visit our
Online shop for books or
photographic and diving equipment or check out the Amazon Carousel at
the foot of this page. Every purchase made via Amazon from this site
earns a small commission for BSoUP.
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Green Turtle © Linda Pitkin
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BSoUP
Chairman, JP Trenque (centre) at DIVE 2008
Image © Anthony Holley |
BSoUP at DIVE 2008
BSoUP's stand at DIVE 2008 as
usual attracted a lot of interest with an excellent display of
member's work. For the first time the society offered one-to-one
advice and tuition to visitors. JP Trenque, Chairman (centre left),
was among those who demononstrated techniques.
BSoUP is grateful to Anthony
Holley, Bob Bailey, Gill McDonald, Jane Burnett, JP Trenque, Joss
Woolf, Len Deeley, Martha Tressler, Nigel Hollinsgworth, Paula
Bailey, Peter Ladell, Robert Cuss, Mike and Jan Maloney and Trevor
Rees who helped man the stand over the weekend.
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BSoUP/RPS Distinctions
Workshop
BSoUP have
organised a Royal Photographic Society Distinctions
Workshop for this Sunday 9th November in Camden
Town.
Although the event was initially
oversubscribed, a number of members have had to drop out for various
reasons. There are now just two places for members available on a
first come first served basis. E-mail brian.pitkin@virign.net now if
you are interested.
The Workshop will be lead by
Jack
Jackson FRPS, FRGS
The RPS
award Distinctions at three levels - Licentiateship, Associateship
and Fellowship. Full details at http://www.rps.org/
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The Royal
Photgraphic Society's website
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EuroTek
2008
Organised by divers for divers,
the EuroTek.08 Conference and Dive Exhibition will offer
unique insights into the world of advanced diving by encouraging a
better understanding of emerging technologies.
Staged at the Birmingham ICC
(International Convention Centre), in the United Kingdom on the
weekend of the 15th and 16th November 2008,
EuroTek.08 promises to be a highlight event on the European
dive industry calendar. There are both still and film
competitions.
For further details visit
www.eurotek.uk.com/index.htm
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Website of the Week -
Mark and Eugenie Hardy
Each week we are highlighting a
BSoUP member's website.
Boogiediver the
website of Mark and Eugenie Hardy is this week's
choice. Mark first started taking underwater photographs with an
amphibious Sea and Sea MotorMarine II camera, and was otherwise armed
only with the first edition of Martin Edge's book "The Underwater
Photographer". Little did he know that he would meet and learn from
Martin who has since become his mentor and friend. Recent trips with
Martin include photographic expeditions to Lembeh Straits (Sulawesi)
and Sipadan (Borneo). To learn more about Mark and Eugenie visit
their website at www.boogiediver.com/
If you are a
BSoUP member and your website is not included on the
BSoUP member's websites page, please
send the URL of your site to the BSoUP Membership
Secretary, Mike
Russell.
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