Part 2 of our coverage of the 2019 Wetpixel Whale Sharks trip described the incredible encounters our second group had with huge numbers of whale sharks off Isla Mujeres. The action was amazing with several days when we had huge numbers of sharks and returned with empty camera batteries and full memory cards.
We are changing our servers and updating the site in order to provide some exciting new features and functionality over the next few months. Many apologies for the inconvenience, but this means that we will need to take the forums offline for around 24 hours. We plan to do so from 1500 GMT (1100 ET/0800 PT) today, Wednesday 24 July and hope to have everything back up and running by the same time on Thursday 25 July.
Happy Earth Day 2019 to the Wetpixel community. This organizers have named the event “Protect Our Species and dedicated it to the protection of endangered and threatened species.
Wetpixel will be hosting an intensive photographic workshop focusing on capturing stunning imagery of the underground world. The workshop will be held for 8 to 11 July 2020 in the epicenter of beautiful decorated caves, Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula in conjunction with Under the Jungle and photographer Tom St George. These caves offer an ideal environment to capture amazing images, with a variety of environments to allow for people with different experience and qualifications.
Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon offers an opinion on an image that was recently shared on the wonderful Wetpixel Facebook Group. The image shows a boxer crab (Lybia tessellata) beautifully lit with a snoot as it stood in the open (a clearing) on a blue Linkia sp. sea star.
Wetpixel wishes all those that are celebrating the Lunar New year, a very happy and joyous celebration. We hope that your festivities will be joyous and that the new year will bring you amazing images! May the Year of the Pig be a fantastic year for you.
As many members of the Wetpixel community start their holidays, we would like to wish you all a very festive season. We hope that: If you share gifts, you will get the imaging tools that you desire. If you are lucky enough to be diving, your subjects are plentiful, and if you are sharing time with friends and family, you have much joy and happiness.
Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon is very excited to announce that he has taken on the ownership of Wetpixel with effect from 1 December. Practically this means that he will be able to devote significantly more time and resources to developing the site and creating new features of benefit to the Wetpixel community. This will build on the fantastic work done by the previous owner, Eric Cheng, who will continue to be involved as an advisor.
The 2018 Wetpixel Whale Sharks trip is underway! Every year hundreds of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) gather North of the island of Isla Mujeres, close to Cancun, Mexico. The aggregation provides one of the most amazing natural spectacles in the underwater world. We will be posting daily reports, so please check back often
We have a few spaces available on the 2018 Wetpixel Whale Sharks trip. It is running from 10 to 16 August and we will be based in comfortable accommodation at the Playa la Media Lune hotel on Isla Mujeres. Unlike most trips that run to see the sharks, our skippers are full time professional charter boat captains that spend the bulk of their time at seas looking for fish. We also tend to leave early and stay late, allowing us to maximize the crucial times when the sharks are relatively undisturbed by other parties.