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Dreams of Kelp - Liquid Grandeur Mystiquez Photo

Dreams of Kelp - Liquid Grandeur Mystiquez

Mikko has posted a video on the forum which he describes as:

“Scuba diving the magical kelp forests of California Channel Islands. Close to the California mainland, yet worlds apart, Channel Islands encompasses eight remarkable islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, San Clemente, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina, and Santa Barbara) and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural resources. This is a journey to the dreamlike underwater habitats of San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands and their ever dancing kelp forest. Isolation over thousands of years has created unique animals, plants, and archeological resources found nowhere else on Earth and helped preserve coastal southern California as it once was. Shot on location, on the liveaboard Vision of Truth Aquatics in September 2010.”

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Canon EF 8-15mm f4L lens sample videos features underwater clips Photo

Canon EF 8-15mm f4L lens sample videos features underwater clips

Canon has posted a sample video from the EF 8-15mm lens, showcasing it using EOS 5D Mark 2 and 7D cameras behind custom dome ports in Sea & Sea MDX housing. The scene from Palau includes the famous Jellyfish Lake and Germany Channel. Underwater scenes from California’s kelp forest are also included as are some time-lapse photography sequences. Watch the opening sequence carefully to see how this lens performs.

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Eric Cheng interviewed on Small Aperture Photo

Eric Cheng interviewed on Small Aperture

Eric Cheng has been the subject of an interview in Small Aperture: a web-based photography news outlet. The interviewer questions Eric on how he got involved in underwater photography, and his photographic motivations, as well as the usual queries about what equipment he uses, and whether it is scary to shoot pictures of sharks. In addition, Emma the tiger shark is erroneously mentioned as being the only “chick” he is interested in!

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Registrations for Digital Shootout 2011 open Photo

Registrations for Digital Shootout 2011 open

Registrations for the Digital Shootout 2011 are now open. It will be held around the Divi Flamingo Resort on Bonaire from 18-25 June 2011. The Shootout caters for photographers and videographers at all levels, and includes the chance to try out demo gear and to participate in a contest with over $25,000 worth of prizes run during the event.

In addition, there will be seminars and workshops run by industry professionals like; Berkely White, Dan Baldocchi, Sterling Zumbrunn, Mary Lynn Price, Erin Quigley and Jim Decker.

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Scientists use Flickr image to track whale’s movements Photo

Scientists use Flickr image to track whale’s movements

Boston.com has reported that scientists have used a tourist’s image of a whale fluke, posted onto Flickr, to match with pictures taken by scientists of the same whale to show that it made an unprecedented 6,000 mile journey from Brazil to Madagascar. Whale number 1363 in the Antarctic Humpback Whale Catalog was first spotted by scientists off the coast of Brazil in August 1999, swimming with another whale for an hour. The scientists took skin samples and did genetic analysis, determining that both whales were female.

Skipping on two years, Freddy Johansen, a Norwegian tourist on a whale watching cruise, took a photo of the same whale’s flukes as it swam with two other whales off the east coast of Madagascar and then uploaded it onto Flickr some while later in 2009. Gale McCullogh, liaison to Flickr for the Allied Whale research group at the College of the Atlantic, Maine, matched the two images and was hence able to track the whales movements. McCullogh said:

“This to me is just an incredibly exciting way of reminding people they are our whales — they’re not the biologist’s whales.’’

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Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area threatened. Photo

Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area threatened.

AfriOceans reports that attempts are underway to allow line fishing in the Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area (MPA), which has been established by the South Africa government as a “no-take” zone. In fact, the Tsitsikamma National Park is the oldest (proclaimed in 1964) and largest “no-take” MPA in South Africa and makes a substantial contribution to marine biodiversity protection in the Agulhas Bioregion. This new threat is a secretive process between government departments, after an attempt to open the area to fishing in 2007/8 failed.

Concerned individuals are being encouraged to send comments, which will be forwarded to the relevant minister.

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Wildscreen Film Festival 2010 Photo

Wildscreen Film Festival 2010

The 2010 Wildscreen wildlife and environmental film festival kicked off in Bristol, England last Sunday (10 October). The event, sponsored by BBC Earth and Animal Planet, lasts for 5 days, and will culminate in the judging of the 440 plus finalists of the Panda Award film competition. In addition, the festival features discussion panels and workshops, and is seen and marketed as a place to meet and network with other wildlife filmmakers.

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