Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Eagles Nest film wins an Emmy

Wetpixel member Becky and partner David Schott of Liquid Productions were awarded an Emmy each at the National Academy of Television Arts and Science Awards held December 3rd, 2011 in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. It was awarded for the Eagles Nest Cave feature story produced by them and that aired on CBS last year. The film involved using rebreathers, trimix, DPV’s, 600 watts of light to travel and film the 2000 feet upstream as far as Kings Challenge, illuminating one of the most interesting underwater cave systems in Florida. The film crew spent an hour at 270’ and the video was shot over a total of 2 days.

Congratulations from us all at Wetpixel!

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Bite-Back 2012 shark calendar released

Environmental charity Bite-Back has released its 2012 shark calendar. Thirteen underwater photographers including David Doubilet, Doug Perrine, Alex Mustard, Brian Skerry, Amos Nachoum, Michael Aw and Jeff Rotman have combined their images with thought-provoking commentary on the status of the oceans on the high-quality A4 calendar. Bite-Back aims to protect of sharks by reducing consumer demand for their meat and fins and all funds raised in the sale of the calendar will be used towards this goal.

The calendar is available now at £7.99 ($12.50) plus shipping from Bite-Back’s online store. It is a great present for all underwater enthusiasts!

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Entries open for Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the year 2012

The Veolia Environnment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 has now opened for entries with renowned underwater photographer, David Doubilet, as one of the judges. Categories include: Animal portraits, behavior (mammals, birds and cold-blooded animals), animals in their environment, botanical realms, underwater worlds, wildscapes, urban wildlife, nature in black & white, creative visions and 4 special awards. There is also a youth competition with classes in three age groups.

Fore more details of entrance procedures or competition rules, please see the contest’s website. Entries are open now until 23 February, 2012.

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Late availability: Wetpixel PNG Eastern Fields 2012

A couple of places have opened up on the Wetpixel Papua New Guinea Eastern Fields Expedition. The spaces are available on the trip running from 10 to 20 January 2012 and is aboard MV Golden Dawn. The Eastern Fields are a submerged coral reef atoll system in the middle of the Coral Sea, where the corals are unspoiled. The waters of Papua New Guinea are teeming with marine life, and you can’t get to many of the places that will be visited except on a liveaboard. Even better, at any given time, the group will probably be the only people in the water. This trip has been sold out for quite some time so these spaces are going to go very quickly.

If you are interested please get in contact with Dan Baldocci very soon.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

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.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

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.

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

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.

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

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.

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

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.

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

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!

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