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 [...]

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 [...]

Located 300 kilometres off the northeast coast of Sabah, Layang Layang is a 14 sq km atoll rising 2,000 metres from the depths of the South China Sea. Its coral reefs are home to a variety of marine inhabitants, from pelagic life such as schooling hammerheads, barracuda and fusiliers to tiny critters such as nudibranchs, [...]

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):

Cara featured many of my underwater images in the making of this slideshow YouTube movie. She says “I love to interpret music through videos, and all of my videos start with a song that I want find a visual expression for. I use a MacBook and either iMovie or Final Cut for all my videos.”