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Call for entries: Ocean Photography Awards
The Ocean Photography Awards is calling for entries. Offering 6 categories, namely Conservation, Exploration, Adventure, Young, Collective and Community, full details can be viewed on the contest’s site. The deadline for entries is 30 June, with an awards ceremony and public exhibition planned in London, UK on 20 August.
The Underwater Tribe hosts live webcasts
Mike Veitch of the Underwater Tribe writes that they are live casting on Monday and Friday at 2:30 AM GMT and Wednesday at 9:00 AM GMT. There casts are available via their Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Tutorial: Great White Sharks, Hammerheads, Mantas and More by Annie Crawley
Annie Crawley has released the second of her “Our Ocean and You” tutorial series. This episode is entitled “Great White Sharks, Hammerheads, Mantas and More” and features footage captured by Bill Fisher, Joe Romeiro, Tom Osborn, Pascal Kobeh, and Amos Nachoum. In addition, Annie will be hosting a live webinar on 9 April at 9.00 AM PST.
Video: Part 3 of How to practice UW Photo at home by Brent Durand
Brent Durand has shared the third part of his tutorials offering activities for underwater photographers that are currently unable to practice their art. In this episode, he looks at backups, file organization, importing and exporting images and basic keyboarding, primarily in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
Call for entries: UN World Oceans Day Photo Contest
The 2020 UN World Oceans Day Photo Competition is now calling for entries. Offering 10 categories, each participant must agree to follow the UN’s Charter for Participants. Entries are open now and close on April 30, 2020, at 12 midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Video: Drift by Julia Sumerling
Another five minutes of serenity by Julia Sumerling. Filmed around a jetty in Raja Ampat, her short film features majestic coral gardens and stunning marine life. Let it soothe your withdrawals away…
Video: Float by Julia Sumerling
If your enforced isolation and lack of vitamin sea is giving you withdrawals, please find a quiet corner, turn up the sound and let Julia Sumerling’s beautiful video from Raja Ampat soothe your soul…
Paper describes new technique for assessing whale shark age
A paper published in the Frontiers in Marine Science Journal outlines an innovative new approach to aging whale sharks (Rhincodon typus). Using the increase of Carbon 14 that occurred after the nuclear bomb tests that started in the late 1940s as a datum, the technique can use the known decay curve of the radioactive isotope to provide an accurate age. So far, the results suggest that sharks are much more long-lived than was previously thought.
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