Today is World Photography Day, so please open up your underwater image libraries and share your wonderful pictures. Given the ongoing disruptions to travel and the devastating effects of the COVID-19 crisis on communities worldwide, sharing imagery from the amazing places we visit and document helps to keep people from forgetting how special they are, and encourages them to plan trips once it is safe to do so.
Photographers Boaz Samorai and Noam Kortler have organized the Red Sea Diving Festival in Eilat, Israel from 11 to 14 March. Among the events during the festival are underwater imaging workshops, film screenings, and a photography competition. Wetpixel’s Adam Hanlon will be attending and presenting, so please keep checking back for updates from the festival.
Wishing the Wetpixel community the very happiest of New Year celebrations. We hope that you are enjoying a joyful evening with family and friends and that 2020 will bring you safe diving, cooperative subjects, and amazing imagery.
The admins and moderators wish the Wetpixel community the very happiest of holiday seasons. If you exchange gifts, we hope that yours include some new tools for underwater imaging! We hope that you will have time to share your holidays with friends and family and would like to thank you all for sharing your time, images and experience on the Wetpixel forums, and Facebook group. We look forward to sharing more techniques, news, and imagery in 2020
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.