The SCUBA Show, America’s Largest Consumer Dive Expo, will take place May 15-16 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. This is the 23rd year of this popular event. The show will consist of 76,000 square feet of diving related exhibits including new and revolutionary dive gear, travel pros (many offering show discounts), and diving experts. Several exhibitors also offer free drawings for valuable prizes. The first 1,000 people in attendance on Saturday and Sunday will receive complementary tote bags, and door prizes will be taking place through out the day.

Highlighting the exhibit hall will be a personal appearance by world famous artist Wyland. On Saturday he will be interacting with attendees while painting a new piece of art and on Sunday will be painting with over 200 children who have pre-registered in advance.

Legendary underwater filmmaker Stan Waterman will be headlining a weekend of seminars that include some of the most popular dive experts around. Some of the presenters include Jack and Sue Drafahl, Bruce Watkins, Dale Sheckler, Ken Knezick, Ken Kurtis, and many more. Subjects covered include underwater photography and video, marine life, dive travel, and more.

A continuous underwater film festival will be running in the exhibit hall on a three-story high screen and will feature films from around the world by over a dozen underwater imaging experts.

Saturday night will feature a Casino party benefiting California Ships to Reefs, a non-profit organization sinking ships along the California coastline as artificial reefs. Highlight of the party will be the awarding of the California Scuba Service Award.

Exhibit hall hours are Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $12 and includes admission to exhibit hall and film festival (seminars are an additional charge). Discount coupons are available at California dive stores, on California dive charter boats and through California dive clubs. Age 12 and under are admitted free. For information on SCUBA Show 2010 call (310) 792-2333 or visit the web site www.scubashow.com.

At our annual banquet, the following winners of club awards for 2009 were announced:

Photographer of the Year (most total points, open category):

• Scott Gietler

Videographer of the Year (most total points, video category):

• Nannette Van Antwerp

2009 Minicomp Open:

• 1st Place - Scott Gietler
• 2nd Place - Bill Van Antwerp
• 3rd Place - Kevin Lee, Todd Winner

2009 Minicomp Novice:

• 1st Place - Nikki Pieper
• 2nd Place - John Nolan
• 3rd Place - Judy Carlson

2009 Mincomp Video:

• 1st Place - Walter Marti
• 2nd Place - Nannette Van Antwerp
• 3rd Place - Janet Crumb

2009 California Shootout (Open/Novice combined):

• 1st Place - Todd Winner, Kevin Griffin
• 2nd Place - Bill Van Antwerp, Dave Nesheim
• 3rd Place - Kelly Bracken

2009 Californoa Shootout Video:

• 1st Place - Dwight Crumb
• 2nd Place - Nannette Van Antwerp, Walter Marti

2009 Video Edited:

• 1st Place - Nannette Van Antwerp
• 2nd Place - Dwight Crumb, Walter Marti
• 3rd Place - Anastasia Laity

2009 Intraclub Cold Water - Open

• 1st Place - Kevin Lee
• 2nd Place - Scott Gietler
• 3rd Place - Dave Nesheim

2009 Intraclub Cold Water - Novice

• 1st Place - John Nolan
• 2nd Place - Nikki Pieper

2009 Intraclub Macro - Open

• 1st Place - Kevin Lee
• 2nd Place - Bill Van Antwerp
• 3rd Place - Scott Gietler

2009 Intralub Macro - Novice

• 1st Place - John Nolan
• 2nd Place - Nikki Pieper

2009 Intraclub Wide Angle - Open

• 1st Place - Fletcher Forbes
• 2nd Place - Kevin Griffin, Bill Van Antwerp
• 3rd Place - Linda Blanchard

2009 Intraclub Wide Angle - Novice

• 1st Place - John Nolan
• 2nd Place - Nikki Pieper

2009 Intraclub Marine Related - Open

• 1st Place - Scott Gietler
• 2nd Place - Dave Nesheim
• 3rd Place - Tony Frank

2009 Intraclub Marine Related - Novice

• 1st Place - Nikki Pieper
• 2nd Place - Jamie Nixon

2009 Intraclub Black and White - Open

• 1st Place - Bill Van Antwerp
• 2nd Place - Scott Gietler
• 3rd Place - Kevin Lee, Kevin Griffin, Fletcher Forbes

Congratulations to Kevin Griffin and Nikki Pieper, who will both be moving to the Open category in 2010!

Saturday Jan 23rd
Ports’ O Call Restaurant in San Pedro
Price: $40 per person
6:30-7:30: No host bar
7:30: Dinner and Awards

To RSVP for the banquet, please use our online sign up form.

You will be asked to enter the names of up to four guests, and an entree selection for each (salmon, filet, or vegetarian).  After you submit the RSVP, you will be offered your choice of paying via Paypal, or sending a check to LAUPS.

If you have any problems using the web form, please contact Anastasia Laity.

At this year’s banquet, we have some wonderful raffle prizes which include a trip on the 2nd Stage
and a Fish Eye LED1000 DX video/modeling light from Tony Frank and Backscatter.

Also, if you pay your annual dues by Jan 23rd, you will receive a $5.00 bonus bucks certificate to use on monthly raffles, or other functions we might have.

If you have any questions, e-mail Bobbi Flusser.

The list of winners for the 2009 LAUPS International Underwater Photographic Competition has been posted here, and winning images have been added to the LAUPS Gallery.

Prizes will be posted soon.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Speaker

November’s speaker is Richard Salas, author of “Sea of Light: Underwater photography of California’s Channel Islands.”   Swim alongside 30 year studio photographer Richard Salas as he chronicles the undersea beauty of California’s Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary. For the last five years, Richard has braved the cold waters and unpredictable currents to bring us a truly memorable collection of portraits and seascapes. Not content to simply record the well-known life forms, Richard uses dramatic lighting to uncover a world you would scarcely imagine. It’s a world of never-ending color and texture, inhabited by a cast of ocean-going personalities ranging from the comical to the sinister. And all just a few miles off our beautifully familiar California coastline.

“Sea of Light” book website

YouTube Interview

Richard’s studio web site

Competitions

In November we’ll be running three competitions:

• 5-minute video edited (max one entry per entrant; please bring a playable DVD (standard definition), or miniDV tape (standard or hi-def)
• Minicomp: “Cleaning Stations” (upload entries)
• Shootout #3 (stills): voting delayed from previous meeting due to technical difficulties.

Tomorrow is the last day to enter the LAUPS International Competition!  Entry forms must be filled out and images uploaded no later than 11:59pm Friday, September 25th.  (Video entries and checks can be sent by mail).

Visit the International Competition page for more information.

This month’s Sept meeting is changing from Wed the 16th to Wed, Sep 23rd!! Due to construction and various things happening at the Museum we have to change the date.

Also note that the meeting will start promptly at 7:30pm, and all mini comp and shootout entries need to be uploaded before the meeting. Entries can no longer be accepted at the meeting. Please help us out and get them in at least by the night before.

Our speaker this month will be Underwater Cinematographer Tom Campbell. Tom has been shooting the RED camera and will be showing us some of his hi-def work from all over the world and discussing digital video and film making. Check him out:

http://www.tomcampbell.com

NOTE: Print Intraclub has been moved to OCTOBER.

In September, we have two competitions.

The first is a minicomp, topic “Shrimp,” and the second is for entries from our Sep 6 shootout trip. Please submit your entries (still and video) using the LAUPS upload page.

August Competitions:

This month, we have a minicomp (”Blue Fish Portraits”) as well as the judging for Shootout #2.

Please upload your photos and video clips using the minicomp upload page. Submissions are due by 11:59pm Tuesday, August 18.

August Speakers:

Our speakers for Aug are Jason Bradley and Bill Stotzner.  Their topic is “Cataloging Your Body: the art of managing your image library.”

It’s good timing as many of us have taken the class  with Rob Sheppard and Lightroom is fresh in our minds. They will also be raffling off a FREE copy of Lightroom!!

Jason Bradley
Jason is a nature and underwater photographer based in Monterey, CA.  He has worked extensively with aquariums, conservation organizations,  and field biologists, and his work has been published in many books  and magazines.  Jason is a self proclaimed workflow and Photoshop  geek, and in addition to his own classes,  he has taught digital  workshops with National Geographic Photographer Frans Lanting, and is the former imaging instructor from Backscatter in Monterey.

Bill Stotzner
Like Jason, Bill can be a digi-geek.  He got his start in imaging  obtaining a degree in Photographic Science and Instrumentation from  the Rochester Institute of Technology.  From there Bill worked at NASA  on scientific imaging projects, at Minolta as a science and tech  writer, and is now on the development team for Lightroom at Adobe.   Bill is an expert at keywording and metadata and knows Lightroom like the back of his hand.  He has been diving for over 15 years, and is lost if he is underwater with out his camera, experiencing his deeper passion, the ocean.

JULY MINICOMP - “SCHOOLING FISH”

(Minicomp winners are posted in the LAUPS gallery)

Open:

• 1st place - Carol Yin
• 2nd place - Margaret Webb
• 3rd place - Carol Yin, Bill Van Antwerp

Novice:

• 1st place - Nikki Pieper

Video:

• 1st Place - Walter Marti
• 2nd Place - Nannette Van Antwerp
• 3rd Place - Walter Marti

JULY 3-MINUTE VIDEO EDITED:

• 1st Place - Nannette Van Antwerp, “Funny Faces”
• 2nd Place - Walter Marti, “The Conflict”
• 3rd Place - Anastasia Laity, “Kona After Dark”