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LAUPS announces winners of 2011 competition
The Los Angeles Underwater Photography Society (LAUPS) has announced the winners of its annual International Underwater Photographic Competition. The overall winner was Pasquale Vassallo of Napoli, Italy, with an over-under image of an octopus in a sea weed bed entitled “View from the bay”. Keri Wilk won the Open category with a wide-angle shot of a sunburst through a large sargassum bed. The overall quality of all the images in the finals is stunning, and many congratulations to all who placed. As always, it is great to see so many Wetpixel members amongst the winners.
Picture Perfect Curacao
Over on DivePhotoGuide (DPG), a report on and the results of the Picture Perfect Curacao (North American Underwater Photographer of the Year) competition have been posted. The basis of the contest was that a group of DPG monthly competition series winners, Allison Vitsky, Jeremy Kozman and Rand Mcmeins, were flown to Curacao, given $1000, put up at Lions Dive and Beach Resort and given diving by Ocean Encounters to compete not only between themselves but also against Keri Wilk, to see whose images would be used for Curacao Tourism’s next ad campaign. Despite the “amateurs” achieving great results, with Alison winning three of the five categories, the overall winner was Keri. The contest was an interesting one, as the images were being judged for use in Curacao’s upcoming advertising campaigns, rather than solely on artistic merit.
Beneath the Sea offers early bird discounts
Beneath the Sea are offering an early bird discount to people buying tickets for the 2012 show from now until 1 January, 2012. The show will be held from 23 to 25 March 2012 at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, Secaucus, New Jersey. Events planned for the show include workshops and seminars about underwater photography, diving medicine and the underwater imaging competition.
Full details of the event are to be found on its website and it is open now for the purchase of discounted tickets.
One World One Ocean reports from Cocos
The One World One Oceans (OWOO) team has sent a report from the field about their diving and filming at the Cocos Islands. OWOO is a nonprofit campaign that aims to harness the power of film, television and new media to spark a global movement to protect and restore the ocean. Founded by MacGillivray Freeman Films, it aims to be the largest multi-platform, media-driven campaign of its kind in the ocean conservation space.
The current project involves Howard Hall and ichthyologist Dr. Richard Pyle who plan to use the submersible DeepSee and mothership Argo to get IMAX footage from deep dives around the Islands.
Our World Underwater and DEEP Indonesia 2012
Full details of the annual Our World Underwater and DEEP Indonesia contests are now available for 2012. In their seventh year, they offer over $100,000 in prizes including dive trips and holidays, underwater photography and video equipment and cash. The judging panel will consist of industry experts including professional photographers, cinematographers and magazine editors. The winners will be announced live on stage at the Our World Underwater Film Festival in Chicago on 17 February and will be exhibited at DEEP Indonesia in Jakarta beginning on 29 March. The winning images will be widely published worldwide and will reach millions of readers.
Full entry details are available on the Our World Underwater pages, with still and video entries being accepted from 6 December and closing on 23 January. DEEP Indonesia will also be accepting still entries from 6 December, with a closing date of 10 February. 15% of all entry fees will be donated to marine conservation causes.
Jonathan Yi on the Canon EOS C300
Commercial director Jonathan Yi has posted a humorous but thorough video review of the new Canon EOS C300 digital cinema camera onto Vimeo. He says about the film:
“In early Fall 2011, I shot some footage with a pre-production model of the Canon EOS C300 for one week in NYC. I created an article and a video for Canon based on my experiences with the camera. The video is meant to poke fun at most camera test videos I’ve seen over the years. Canon, not thrilled with my sense of humor, does not credit or condone this video, but I think it shows a lot of the camera’s strengths.”
His full review of the camera is available on the Canon Digital Learning Center. The video contains a little (humorous) bad language and some implied nudity!
Call for entries: Beneath the Waves 2012
The 2012 Beneath the Waves film festival is calling for film entries. It will take place from March 21-24 in Norfolk, Virginia and is to be held in conjunction with the Benthic Ecology Meeting, hosted by Old Dominion University. In previous years, films have been shown concurrently with the normal poster sessions, but new for this year is a special evening devoted to films only with selected films being shown on March 23 from 6:30-8:30 PM on the IMAX screen at the Nauticus IMSX Theatre. The evening will feature the screening of a collection of top 2012 films, engaging filmmaker/researcher discussions, and audience participation.
Beneath the Waves will also be hosting a conservation filmmaking workshop and there will be the “Shore Dive Series” of mini-film festivals that will showcase a handful of 2012 films at various community theaters across the country. Full details for entry submission are available on the Beneath the Waves website and the deadline for entries is 20 January.
African Diver issue 40 available
The December 2011/January 2012 issue of African Diver magazine has been released and is now available to download. Issue 20 features an article by Allen Walker on shark photography, an interview with “Shark Warrior” Lesley Rochat and a feature on Cape Town’s shark spotter program and how it compares to more traditionally implemented solutions. In addition, there are two articles dealing with breathing and diving: one on coping with asthma while being a diver and the other on using yoga to improve your free diving skills. The featured photographer this issue is Evert Nel.
Issue 20 is available to download as a free pdf.