Next Photosub meeting – 26 May

I can now give you details of the next meeting. This will be held on 26th May in Lawnsmead Church Hall in Wonersh nr Guildford and is adjacent to the village green. It has been organised by Kam. It is the same one that was used for an earlier event. (See Map) . Kam says if it is a nice day people can come early as it is a picturesque village and a good photo opportunity. We will be making a small charge of £2 towards the hire of the hall. For a change we will be arranging a ‘fish and chip supper’ which will be delivered in by a local fish shop. The choice of menu follows and you can pay on the day:

  • Cod and chips £5.30
  • Chicken and chips £5.30
  • Pie and Chips £4.00
  • Sausage and chips £2.90

We will arrange for roll and butter to be provided. Meals will be boxed and cutlery will be available in the hall. You need to bring your own drinks.

Please let me know your requirement as soon as possible and we will put in the order.

We have arranged for a speaker for part of the evening. This is Suzy Q and her talk is ‘Sharks: Fear and Fascination’.

Suzy has worked in the field of shark research and conservation for over 10 years and runs Africa Diver which specialises in taking shark diving tours out to Southern Africa. She is the UK Director for the Shark Research Institute and has worked with whale sharks in Western Australia, Tanzania, Djibouti, India and Honduras. After which she found herself working with great white sharks in South Africa and filming, amongst other things, for a Discovery documentary – great whites without cages. A freelance wildlife film maker she recently produced a film about diving with crocodiles in the Okavango. She strongly believes that introducing people, whether divers or non-divers, to the marine environment is one of the most effective conservation tools available. The talk covers topics including the philosophy of fear, psychology of human rational thought, shark behaviour and shark ecotourism.

In addition I will bring along the entries for the last annual competition for everyone to see and also a short AV , Photosub Revisited, which introduces some of past and present members of Photosub over 21 years.

Photosub Annual Competition 2011

Judged on 3 March 2012 by Paul Naylor

The Photosub 21st Dinner took place on Saturday 3 March 2012 with a few extra ingredients.

Len Deeley put an audio visual together of Photosub Revisited, with images of some of our members over the past 21 years. Kam Arya also had a 21st Birthday cake made by a dear 89 year old lady to celebrate our coming of age. There were 44 guests booked although unfortunately two were unable to make it. It was very nice to see some of our ex members who came for the special occasion e.g. Keith Webster and Ron Lee.

After the dinner and the cake cutting there were a few well chosen words from our new Chairman Keith Lyall and the audio visual was run. Our guest of honour was Paul Naylor with his wife Teresa and Paul then said a few words and thanked us for the invitation. Paul was sent the PDI images in advance for judging so they were already prepared to be run through and then the winners projected with comments from Paul on each of the winning images.

We had received :

  • 9 green water images
  • 34 green water advanced images
  • 14 blue water images
  • 44 blue water advanced images

Here are the winning images.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Photosub website. I hope you enjoy visiting these pages. Some of them are still work in progress and I look forward to receiving your comments and feed-back to try and make this site better.

If you are a renewed Photosub member and have any announcements, competition results or info which you would like to share with other club members, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line and I will set your user ID up to be able to post on the site.

JP Trenque

Photosub Annual Competition 2010

Judged by Dive Magazine’s editor Simon Rogerson

The 2010 competition took place at the Farnham House Hotel and was judged by Dive Magazine’s editor Simon Rogerson who chose 3 favourites andone or two highly commended in 4 categories : Blue Water, Green Water, Blue Water Advanced, Green Water Advanced.

The Blue Water category was won by Gillian Marsh and Isabella Nash took the Green Water trophy. In the Advanced Category, Joss Woolf’s seal was chosen as best Green water advanced image while Martyn Guess won the blue water advanced category

Photosub Splash-in 2010

Our guest of honour and judge for the evening was Steve Laurenson a well known photographer in the Surrey area and circuit judge with the Surrey Photographic Association. He was tasked with selecting the winning entries for the Photosub Splash in. There were 16 entries but three had to be withdrawn as the author mis-understood the rules and thought that the entries were allowed from the weekend of the BSoUP Splash in, whereas the competition dates were the 8/9 May. Therefore, the final results were as follows:

  • 1st place Bob Soames with a picture of a Tompot Blenny
  • 2nd place Alex Tattersall with a picture of a nudibranch
  • 3rd place Bob Soames with a picture of a sea slug egg ribbon

Bob was awarded the Photosub Splash in trophy, which he retains for a year as well as a permanent trophy. He also won a DVD fish guide and a waterproof storage bag. Alex wins a woodcut construction kit of a blue whale (and may he have many happy hours constructing it!)