Thursday, November 27th, 2003

INON Artists of the Month

Congratulations to Wetpixel moderators Craig Jones and Herb Ko for being selected as the first two INON Artists of the Month! You can see testimonials and a small gallery of their images at INON America's website.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

Birmingham Festival 2003 Coverage

Wetpixel contributor Paul NG attends the Birmingham Image 2003 Festival at the National Exhibition Center (NEC) in Birmingham, England..

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

Nikon 10.5DX Fisheye

Thanks to our friends at Aquatica for sending in an image of the new Nikon 10.5DX fisheye lens. This is the first diagonal fisheye lens for use with digital SLR cameras.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2003

Rolex Our World Underwater Scholarship

Those of you who are interested in educational activities associated with the underwater world and who are between 21 and 24 years of age (inclusive) should check out the Rolex Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (OW-USS). The Rolex Scholarship offers a North American Rolex Scholarship ($20,000), a European Rolex Scholarship 15,000 Pound Sterling), and support for multiple internships during the 2004 calendar year.

Although the deadline on the promotional material says November 30, 2003, representatives at the Antibes Festival told us that the deadline has been extended. Get in touch with them soon!

Qualifications and more information can be found at: http://owuscholarship.org/

Saturday, November 1st, 2003

Wetpixel wins at Antibes!

Wetpixel.com has won one of the most prestigious awards in the underwater photograpy and videography community: the underwater web site of the year award at the Antibes Juan-Les-Pins 30th Festival Mondial de L’Image Sous-Marine (30th World Festival of Underwater Images). The awards ceremony last night here in the South of France was not unlike a small version of the Academy Awards, and the two-hour ceremony honored winners for underwater web sites, books, images, and films.

On behalf of Wetpixel.com, I’d like to share the Antibes 2003 award with all of you who make our site successful. This includes the small volunteer staff force who administer and moderate the site, the array of individual content contributors, the 1300+ active participants in the forum, and those of you who are just here to browse anonymously. Thank you!

- Eric Cheng, Editor and Administrator

Saturday, November 1st, 2003

Jim Chambers, Popular Photography Prize

Congratulations to Wetpixel member Jim Chambers, who recently won a photography prize from Popular Photography for his photo of a Nassau grouper eating a blue tang! There is an active thread in the forums about his photo.