Underwater Photography Nov/Dec 2010 www.uwpmag.com 57/2 35 Canary creativity Contents by Alex Tattersall Underwater Photography 4 Editorial A web magazine UwP57 Nov/Dec 2010 5 News & Travel 10 New Products 51 Off camera strobes 69 Basking sharks by Alex Mustard by Charles Hood 40 Veolia Wildlife winners 21 Nauticam Sony NA-NEX5 by Phil Rudin 73 French muck diving by Jean-Philippe Borges & Gilles Suc 56 Ultraviolet photography by Matej Simonic 25 Seahorn Snoot review 43 Wildlife ethics by Kay-Burn Lim 77 Gozo by Tim Priest Seahorn Snoot Award Winning Images! by Sean Arrowsmith by Kay Burn Lim 1st Prize in Portfolio Category Timor Leste Dive Photo Contest 2010 60 Stroboscopic 27 L & M SOLA600 by Glenn Lawyer by Alex Mustard Type to enter text 48 Rabbit ear lighting 83 Parting Shots by Julian Cohen by Julian Cohen, Diggy Desai and Tim Priest 31 Athena ARF Ring flash 63 Diving in Sark Seahorn Snoot are now available from:by Phil Rudin by Sue Daly Reefphoto & Video,USA: http://www.reefphoto.com Underwater Photography Scuba Symphony- Your Ultimate One-Stop Fotosub, Italy: http://www.fotosub‐shop.it Diving and Underwater Imaging Solution! 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And then it dawned page 43) on the ethics of underwater photography continues the long line of consistently great cover on me very quickly that the way in which UwP is made very interesting reading for me, and I hope it images and I am very greatful to him for allowing produced would be the ideal way to enable such a will for you also. us to use it. It won the One Earth category in the book to come to fruition. As travelling underwater photographers we recent Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer The beauty (and some would say genius...) face the dilemma of increasing the weight of our of the Year 2010 but it is not really front cover of the idea behind UwP is that it costs only time baggage with tons of carbon emitted by air travel. material in the traditional sense. to produce and virtually nothing to distribute His observation that some competition winners Printed magazines on shelves need their front worldwide so it can be free to download. A book of are looking closer to home for their images (urban cover to say “Buy me”. A colourfully clad, well lit images and text showing the stark reality of some foxes in London and Paris by one and raccoon diver watching a cuddly clownfish usually does the underwater life could be produced in such a way dogs and badgers near one photographers home trick or sadly any image of a shark, for some reason. and in doing so could be made available to anyone in Finland) made me all the more pleased when I But put a struggling turtle, terminally entangled who wanted to download it. As a result the stark received articles for this issue from Sue Daly and in a discarded fishing net, and the reader will feel message could be transmitted worldwide and, who Charles Hood. uncomfortable and move on to pastures prettier. knows, the media world may even pick up on it and Sue covers her local diving on the island of I went along to the press launch of the Veolia publicise it to give it an even greater effect. After Sark in the Channel Islands just north of France Competition and had the opportunity to meet and all, bad news makes good news, as they say. while Charles extols the virtue of photographing chat with Jordi about this image and his recent If there is one thing which has changed the the second largest fish in the sea - the basking shark work. He spends a great deal of time on the water world in the late 20th, early 21st century, it is - in his native Cornish waters. They are both great between Barcelona and the Balearic Islands in the the power of the people. The power through the photographic examples that we do not have to fly Mediterranean and finding such as turtle stranded internet, free downloads and video clips to educate thousands of miles to encounter excellent diving in fishing nets is far from uncommon. In fact the and inform the general public - in this case to the and world class subjects; more often than not they majority of inspections of discarded fishing nets real dangers faced by the underwater world. A are on our doorstep. on the surface reveal stranded or dying species of world which remains hidden to the vast majority Sue’s images were, in particular for me, a one kind or another. He revealed that the majority and which is so easily ignored. A world normally breath of fresh air for if you were to look at images of his underwater images nowadays were of the portrayed by pretty colourful pictures (which sell in UK diving magazines taken around our coast you destructive nature of man’s waste rather than the books) published by companies with both eyes on would be forgiven for thinking that all backgrounds beauty of the underwater world. the balance sheet. are black with little or no available light or His portfolio of such shots has built up so Now we can self produce the pdf books which alternatively they need to blasted with flashlight to much over the recent years that he thought he might will show parts of our world in a newer, more illuminate the foreground because it is so dark. try and get a book of them published. My initial truthful light. They can still be technically excellent, It isn’t like that and Sue’s images prove it. reaction was to say what a good idea it was but then as Jordi’s most certainly is, but maybe, just maybe, it dawned on me that no publisher would commit they will help to draw the general public’s attention capital to such a project. Sales of coffee table books away from ‘Nemo’ and its saccharine reassurance to Peter Rowlands are precarious enough without choosing a subject the plight of the real world. [email protected] www.uwpmag.com 57/4 News, Travel & Events Eco Divers Scubazoo Digital Photo Centre in North Sulawesi Hasselblad and Custom Photo Eco Divers’ Images workshop is delighted to January 22-29, 2011 announce the Cobalt Coast Dive Resort Grand Cayman appointment of Scubazoo to manage Hasselblad and Custom Photo Images invites The Digital Centre, scuba divers to a fabulous photography workshop the only dedicated January 22-29, 2011 at the Cobalt Coast Dive photo and video Resort on Grand Cayman Island. What makes centre in North this a unique opportunity is we supply H4D Sulawesi at Kima Hasselblad digital cameras and the housing for the Bajo Resort & Spa cameras. Each attendee will work with experienced and Lembeh Cottages, from 1 October 2010. underwater photographers, and once topside with The Digital Centre will be managed by experienced Hasselblad Phocus software and Christian Loader, a very talented underwater Photoshop users. 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Stay tuned - the official call for Often referred to as the “Super entries is right around the corner! Bowl” of underwater imagery events, the Our World Underwater www.underwatercompetition.com www.uwpmag.com 57/6 THE ULTIMATE IN DIVING HOLIDAYS 2011 Beneath the Sea International Imaging Competition December 31st deadline Beneath the Sea is pleased to throughout the world.