Good news! We have t-shirts. They are made of organic cotton and are really soft. The first 3 people who bring a printed copy of this picture to our booth at DEMA (#3049) during standard exhibit hours get a free Wetpixel t-shirt. Click through for the full image.
Bonus points if you talk to the people in the booth. Ready? GO!
WARNING: Feed the intern at your own risk!
Wetpixel Quarterly staff members Michaela Brockstedt, Adam Lau and I arrived in Las Vegas this afternoon and headed directly to the convention center to set up the Wetpixel booth. DEMA is always a whirlwind of activity; this year, the schmoozing started before we had even gotten our luggage. Stephen Frink and Liz Johnson of Seacam USA and Jenny Collister and Meghan of Reef & Rainforest hung out with us while we waited for our baggage to come out of the magic baggage dispenser…
DIVE Magazine Contributing Editor, Wetpixel member, and yellow wetsuit-wearing photographer Douglas Seifert has been named World Editor of DIVE magazine in the United Kingdom. Starting with the December issue, DIVE will publish Water Column, Douglas’ monthly feature column of images and words devoted to ocean natural history, phenomena, destinations, adventure, and conservation issues worldwide. I have always enjoyed Douglas’ entertaining and informative writing, not to mention his fantastic underwater photography, and am looking forward to reading the new column.
DIVE is the official publication of the British Sub Aqua Club and is the largest circulation English language dive magazine in Europe, distributed worldwide from South Africa to Australia to Asia and the US.
Our friends over at X-Ray Magazine have just announced the immediate availability of issue 26, which features articles on the Caribbean, a review of the XScooter Dive Propulsion Vehicle, Bangaram Island, deep diving, and Thetis Island in British Columbia.
Did you know that reef fish are flourencent and that CO2 makes oceans noisier? Did you ever wonder how the jellyfish get its sting? Explorers find hundreds of undescribed species on Australian reefs. Want to know how to pick Ocean-Friendly Sushi?
Check it out—X-Ray is totally free, and only takes a few minutes to download.
Let’s suppose you are the author of a hot selling series of books, with titles like “Fifty Places to Go Birding Before you Die,” and “Fifty Places to Sail Before you Die.” Now your editor suggests you write one about diving. The problem is you are a casual diver, with only a few hours underwater.If you’re Chris Santella, you seek out fifty experts and interview them about their favorites, in addition to doing basic research.
Here’s a dive book for the general public that provides a highly positive look at the beauty and diversity of the underwater world. At the same time, it’s a valuable reference for traveling divers who are looking for the best that world has to offer…
Congratulations to Wetpixel members Bruce Yates, Alex Connah, Thomas Peschak and Gary Brennand for winning and taking honorable mentions in this year’s Nature’s Best Magazine‘s Windland Smith Rice International photo contest! Bruce won the Oceans divisions with his wonderful image of a lemon shark at the surface in the Bahamas. Gary took honorable mention with a close-up shot of a Napolean wrasse.
Selected Nature’s Best winners will be shown in an exhibition at the Smithsonian starting this coming November. The full list of winners can be found in the discussion topic where this news was broken; we haven’t been able to find them on the Nature’s Best website yet.
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Dunking an empty housing wasn’t much of a gamble, but adding a camera to the housing instantly created a variant of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” which I call “Camera, Housing, Water”. Camera is okay with housing, housing is okay with water, but camera is not okay with water. Or maybe it’s more like that puzzle where the farmer needs to get grain, a chicken, and a fox across a bridge, and can only carry two at a time. (Can’t leave the fox and chicken alone, nor the chicken and grain.)
The goal, regardless of the combination, is to keep water away from the camera. Rock beats scissors, paper beats rock, scissors beats paper, water beats camera…
Wetpixel & DivePhotoGuide are proud to announce the relaunch of our joint venture, UnderwaterCompetition.com, home of our series of international photo competitions, hosted collaboratively between our two popular underwater photo & video websites. In just 4 years, these competitions have become some of the most prestigious and widely supported international underwater photography & video competitions in the world. As our readers already know, the primary competitions are unique in the fact that they are held in association with two dive expos on opposite sides of the world simultaneously. Our World Underwater in Chicago, USA, and DEEP Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Not only did we give UnderwaterCompetition.com a facelift, including highlighting and ranking winning photographers, but we also automated the entire competition. As a participant, you can now sign up for your own UnderwaterCompetition account, upload your submissions, and pay for your entries through this website.
We hope you enjoy the new website, which soft launched this week and will be open for registration and submission within the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for the official call for entries!
In an addendum to our general Photokina 2008 coverage, we received word of the Seacam booth at the exhibit - a 35-sq-meter location displaying their new Seaflash 150 eTTL2-compatible strobes alongside the collection of Seacam housings, domes, and accessories.
Wetpixel friend Stephen Frink has posted additional photos from the exhibition - we’re personally looking forward to rumors of new products at DEMA…
