Focus On - Macro
June 2009
Winner: Rick Ayrton
Second: Pedro Vierya
Third: Mark Atwell
Fourth: Kathy White
Sixth: Simon Brown
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BSoUP - 41st Year
BSoUP was founded in November 1967 by Peter Scoones and Colin Doeg.
BSoUP
is the largest underwater photographic society in Britain,
catering for both film and digital photographers.
BSoUP is
a not-for-profit organisation, run entirely by volunteers with a passion for underwater photography.
BSoUP holds meetings at the Holland
Club, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, on the third
Wednesday of each month, which include illustrated talks by
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BSoUP organises an annual British Splash-in Championship underwater photographic competition. See Splash-in 2008 for details of last year's event.
This year's Splash-in will be held on 4th July 2009. See Splash-in 2009 for details.
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Next
BSoUP meeting:
The next BSoUP meeting takes place on Wednesday, July
15th 2009 at 7.30 for 8.00 p.m. at our usual venue the Holland
Club, Imperial College, S. Kensington, London. Directions.
Annual
Event: Splash-in Review
Focus
On Competition: Green Water. BSoUP Members only.
Main
Event: Len Deeley talking about and showing audio-visuals
Feature: The
images on the left are four of the entries in the June's Focus On competition - 'Macro'. The competition attracted a total of 29 entries.
Congratulations to Rick Ayrton who came first with an image of Jewel anemones (left).
Congratulations also to Pedro Vierya (second) with an image of a Mantis shrimp, Mark Atwell (third) with an image of Gobies on a whip coral, Kathy White (fourth) with a Trumpet fish trying to conceal itself alongside a whip coral, Debi Henshaw (fifth) with an image of a nudi branch, and Simon Brown (sixth) with an image of a squid.
For further details - please see June News. |
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