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May/Jun 2011 UnderwaterUnderwater PhotographyPhotography Issue 60 Issue 60/2 www.uwpmag.com 41 Selective lighting Contents by Daniel Stassen Underwater Photography 4 Editorial A web magazine UwP60 May/Jun 2011 5 News Travel & Events 15 New Products 30 Fantasea FP7000 59 Antarctica 73 Visaya Island by Peter Rowlands by Chris Sterritt by Massimo Mazzitelli 45 Talking tek by Damien Siviero 64 Amazon 33 Sigma 8-16mm 49 Alternate views by Oliver Lucanus by Tim Rock by Mark Webster 75 Guga Hunters by George Stoyle & Richard Shucksmith 68 Blue Heron Bridge by Mark Sagovac 36 Born free 54 Raja Ampat 81 Book Review by Tim Rock by Carlos Virgili 84 Parting Shot by Chris Sterritt Underwater Photography 2001 - 2011 © PR Productions Publisher/Editor Peter Rowlands Cover shot by www.pr-productions.co.uk [email protected] Tim Rock www.uwpmag.com Issue 60/3 UwP60 so I decline. Editorial I like it a bit more personal and Well, well, well. Who’d have e mail is just fine for me and so far as thought it, eh? 60 today and the have provided a platform from which the oceans are seriously damaged. me communicating outwards, so to contributors for this issue have so many have set out. What’s the point of having all speak, I think it’s more than enough surpassed themselves yet again in the The cover images should also this amazing camera gear when we that you should have to put up with range of locations from hot to hostile, take a bow and I’m going to pat won’t have much to photograph? me every 2 months. photo techniques that won’t break myself on the back if that’s OK. You the bank illustrated with inspirational see it’s my job to spot them and with New website Sell your old gear images from all over the world. very few exceptions they’ve all been Each issue, for me, has a stand lurking in the submissions. I don’t I am fortunate to know an Now is always a good time to out article. In the last issue it was worry about finding the front cover excellent website designer who has sell that gear you don’t want or don’t Alex Tyrell’s ‘Egg-cellent shots!’ and each time I’m compiling a new issue. recently rebuilt ours from the ground use anymore. in this issue it is undoubtedly Tim They just seem to jump out as I’m up, given it a fresh new look and There are tens of thousands of Rock’s ‘Born Free’. It is an excellent working on a layout and it’s always added many excellent new features. UwP readers who are looking for example of what can be done without very satisfying when they do. Ah, He is great to work with, doesn’t gear which you might have, so book a scuba gear and the benefits it brings. that’s where you’ve been, I say to charge a king’s ransom and does small ad on the UwP website for just Tim is a consistent UwP contributor myself. exactly what I ask him to do. I like £5 and before you know it there could yet we have never met but his One thing’s for sure it will working with people like that. be a space on that shelf and you’ll support of the magazine is very much be a very different world when we have a healthier bank balance. appreciated by me and I am sure by celebrate our 20th birthday in 2021. With international currency sites you the reader. Think of the changes that have Facebook and Twitter like PayPal it’s never been easier, The other contributor I would happened between 2001 and now, then or cheaper, to accept money from like to take a bow is Mark Webster multiply them exponentially and you It might appear to the outward anywhere in the world so get listing whose output is both consistent in might be somewhere near the mark. observer that I am bang up to that gear and get a Small Ad booked. terms of interesting subjects and But such technological capability date with the modern methods of impressive in terms of images, comes at a huge cost. If the scientists communication and that is actually especially his UK work which at the National Center for Ecological quite true but what I don’t quite Buy your small ad produces very attractive images in Analysis and Synthesis in Santa understand, and so can not raise any here what can be far from easy waters. Barbara, USA are right only 4% of the enthusiasm for, is the Facebook and With the exception of Tim and worlds oceans are now undamaged Twitter method. Mark all of the other contributors to by human activity. Climate change, I do, however, get very kind Peter Rowlands this issue are new and I’m delighted fishing, pollution, and other human invitations from Facebookers and [email protected] to welcome them all. It is one of my factors have taken their toll in some Twitterers to hear what they are up to great pleasures to work with new way on all the other 96 per cent of the and to see the shots they are taking contributors and I am proud that we and a staggering forty-one per cent of but they are not my prefered method Issue 60/4 www.uwpmag.com The Sardine Run with Mauricio Handler News, Travel & Events June 11-17, 2011 June 19-25, 2011 Shark Fin Possession Bill Made Law in Guam Join Mauricio Handler on this one of a kind live-aboard photography expedition to the Sardine Run off of South Africa. Two back to back expeditions aboard 153’ Snow Petrel. A few berths still available. June 11-17, 2011 (3 spaces) June 19-25, 2011 (2 spaces) www.handlerphoto.com Canadian photographer unveils u/w portraits Guam became the third place in curb the trade of shark fins in the US An underwater the world to ban the possession and Territory of Guam. art project had been sale of shark fins and ray parts today The bill is an act to prohibit the on Rodney S. Braun’s as Guam Governor Eddie Calvo Jr. possession, selling, offering for sale, white board for 7 years. signed the legislation into law. Guam trading or distribution of shark fins The Winnipeg, Canada joins the Commonwealth of the and ray parts. portrait photographer Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) The shark fin trade is a wasteful finally embarked on the and Hawaii as places that discourage industry that fins sharks for use in project in the summer and outlaw shark fin commerce. shark fin soup. This is considered of 2010 and unveiled it After a lot of emotional a Chinese delicacy that must be this March. Entitled, “H2Oohhh”, a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a B&H testimony from fishermen, school served at Chinese weddings. The The project was a collaboration housing. Lighting was a mix of students, shark lovers and an amazing practice is roughly 6 decades old. 73 with local Winnipeggers (who ended natural available light, on-camera show of support from an international million sharks are killed only for the up being women), some of whom flash and off-camera flash. community of ocean loving concerned fins every year with the body being were dancers. There were about A 50-image exhibit and a 96- citizens from well over 100 countries, discarded. 20 different sessions in all, mostly page book were created. Guam’s legislators passed Bill 44-31 outdoor, as well as several Manitoba unanimously. The bill is intended to Story & Photos by Tim Rock locations. The project was shot with www.rodneysbraun.com www.uwpmag.com Issue 60/5 Estonian U/w photo Exhibition Your advert could be here for just £50 or less. For full details visit www.uwpmag.com/?p=advertise or e mail [email protected] DOLPHIN DREAM Have you heard about an the end of last year he started a Bahamas Live Aboard Diving underwater photo exhibition? Not just travelling exhibition WET EYES II. and an exhibition of underwater images, It differs form the first one in many Big Animal Encounters. but a photo exhibition under the ways. Apart from being a traveling Expeditions to: water? exhibition, that has been up in more Dive with Tigers Sharks, Five years ago award winning than 20 different swimming pools Lemon Sharks, Reef Sharks, Estonian photographer Kaido Haagen all over Estonia, the photos of WET and more. opened his first underwater exhibition EYES II are all taken in Estonian Snorkel with Friendly WET EYES in Tallinn’s KalevSPA waters and shot on digital camera, Wild Dolphin. swimming pool. “If you want the as opposed to the first WET EYES visitor to get a great but also a real exhibition, where all photos where Spacious and comfortable expedition trawler experience, you have to put him in an taken in tropical waters and shot on Owner Operated environment similar to the one where film. Small groups www.sharkexpedition.com the photos were taken” www.dolphindreamteam.com Haagen explained the unusual www.kaidohaagen.com Ph 001 561 351 9354 choice of the exhibition hall. In [email protected] Issue 60/6 www.uwpmag.com Zeeuws and Dutch Open Championship 15th May 2011 and 26th June 2011. Underwater photography THE ULTIMATE IN DIVING HOLIDAYS is extremely popular these days and more and more divers are taking underwater pictures. Do you also take underwater pictures? We would very much appreciate if you will join us on (one of) our competition days in 2011.