The Digital Shootout is a annual underwater photography workshop, usually held in the Caribbean in places like Bonaire for the last few years. This year it was in Little Cayman, and there were about 30 underwater photographers in attendance. Staff was onsite from Backscatter Photo, Canon, Light & Motion and Aquatica. Well-known underwater photographers Berkley [...]

Here is one of my recent photos that just got selected by a juried panel for publication. This was taken in the Indian Ocean, Maldives. There was an amazing fish count in this cavern and the model struck the right pose at just the right moment. Take the most famous photographers as well as many [...]

Backscatter recently dove again with the Manthiri.  A refit has given the Manthiri a large and gracious air conditioned salon. Half of this salon is organized with couches into cozy islands where small groups of passengers may gather to visit, or seek privacy in their book. The other half of this comfortable salon serves as [...]

Scuba Specialties, 4139 West Bell Road Phoenix (602) 866-3636 is now featuring giclee gallery wrap fine art prints from The Main Event Imaging.  Since 1993 Scuba Specialties has been the premier dive shop in the Phoenix area offering diver training, dive travel and retail equipment sales. “We offer open-water training from a beginner scuba diver to [...]

Shutterbugs meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month, N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, AZ at 7:00pm. The Elks Lodge has a Wednesday night Steak Cookout starting at 5:30 pm and we are invited to join in.  Cost: $9.  Come early and join us before the meeting at 7 pm.. All members are encouraged to [...]

The Wetpixel Photo contest will tests both underwater photography skills and image-manipulation skills. . Submitted images may be used and published by Wetpixel LLC to announce and promote Wetpixel photo contests. Special thanks to Ikelite Underwater Systems and the Solmar V Liveaboard Dive Vessel for their generous sponsorship of the contest. Link 1/ 2/.

Over $10,000 in Prizes we offered for the best images taken at the Shootout! The judging is over, and the votes are in to determine the winners of the 2009 Digital Shootout. The judges were asked to rank the photo entries primarily on the question, “Would I want this image on my wall?” Thus artistic [...]

Take the most talented photobloggers of the web and other famous photographers as well as many serious amateurs, select their best work and put it all in one place – there you have Onexposure. Every photo is screened, which means it has to be approved by an editor before being published. Onexposure is like a [...]

The results are in from the 2008 Layang Layang Underwater Photo Shootout in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The winners, whose photographs were judged by well-known underwater photographers Settimio Ciprianni, Stephen Wong, and Rod Klein, received prizes including trips to Palau, Truk, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, dive computers and watches, and Nikon and Sony dSLR’s and [...]

58 participants competed in four still categories and a single video category, and winners won a variety of prizes from the generous sponsors, including dive travel, underwater camera housings, and more. Here are my four award winning entries (two were first place awards):