National Geographic photographer and Wetpixel contributor, Daniel Botelho is having a selection of his underwater images exhibited at the Louvre Museum, Paris. Entitled “Art from the SEVEN Seas”, the retrospective celebrates his 10 years of underwater image making and runs from 20 May to 15 June.
Norbert Wu continues his column highlighting his favorite images. In this episode, he talks about his images of orcas swimming down leads in the ice in Antarctica and muses on why being a nature photographer is often not seen as being “serious” enough in the mainstream media.
Nauticam has announced the availability of their long-awaited housing for the Atomos Shogun video monitor/recorder. Controls include access to touch-screen functions like “Waveform Monitoring Functions” and “Monitor Assist Functions” overlays. It is equipped with cooling fans powered via a battery in the housing, and Nauticam’s vacuum check system is supplied as standard.
Rich Stevenson of Diving and Marine Solutions has posted a video entitled “Under the Earth” of cave diving at the Fontane de Truffe in the South of France. It features a “tricky” entry, followed by beautiful clean phreatic tube.
It’s not everyday a photographer is hired to photograph a model in a pool with an elephant. So, when the owner of the largest privately owned pool in Asia hired Justin Mott to do just that, he jumped at the opportunity.
Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans episode this week is from Phuket, Thailand. The dive site, Kata Reef is a unique and beautiful coral playground. Underwater cameraman Nicolas Lurot captures a mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) making a dash for cover to evade a lionfish on the hunt and a giant frogfish (Antennarius commerson) as it “walks” along the seafloor.
If you are interested in amazing encounters and images with whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), we have one last space available on the Wetpixel trip to Isla Mujeres for this year. Every year, vast numbers of sharks and sometimes mantas gather to fed on the copious ammounts of fish eggs that are in the water. The space is available on the trip running from 06 to 12 August.
Back in September, two geologists predict the eruption of the underwater volcano, Axial, off the coast of Oregon. The prediction was unprecedented, but wouldn’t have been possible without the aid of the underwater observatory, NeMO (New Millenial Observatory).
Aditech has announced their housing for the Sony PXW-X70 and the HDR-CX900 camcorder. It has LANC control for 25 camera functions via 12 electromagnetic external push-buttons. Framing is via a 3.5” TFT LCD screen or an optional AUO 3.5” 16:9 ultra-high resolution monitor.
The results of Wetpixel and DivePhotoGuide’s 2015 DEEP contest have been announced. Congratulations to all who placed in our contest and especially to Eduardo Acevedo for his stunning image “Open Water” that won the Animal Portraits category and was voted Best of Show by our esteemed judges.