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Published: 06 November 2017

Please join us on Wednesday, November 15th at 7:30 pm, at the Natural History Museum in the 2nd Floor Classroom for our last meeting of 2017!

Todd Winner from Nauticam USA will be presenting a talk on water contact optics and showing a few of the new products including the Wide Angle Conversion Port and the SMC-2. These are exciting times for underwater photographers! There hasn’t been a water contact optic for full frame wide angle shooters since the Nikonos lenses. Alex Mustard has a great review of one of the pre-released Wide Angle Conversion Ports available here. http://www.wetpixel.com/articles/review-nauticam-wide-angle-corrector-port 

November Competitions:

• Photo  Mini-comp: "Ambient Light"
• Video: 5-minute Edited

Please see our submission instructions.  Entries due by 11:59pm Monday, November 13.

Video entries may also be brought on thumb drive*** to the meeting, or you can  send them via email (laups.comp@gmail.com), Dropbox, WeTransfer, or other method.

***If you are entering a video that you are bringing in on a thumb drive, you must declare your intended entry by Monday midnight, so we will know whether we are able to have both open and novice competitions or a single combined category.

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Published: 14 September 2017

Please join us on Wednesday, September 20th at 7:30 pm, at the Natural History Museum (room TBD) for a presentation by Dr. Hans Bertsch.

I study the ecology and biology of nudibranchs, which are shell-less gastropod mollusks and are often called sea slugs. I especially study their taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships, long-term community variations, feeding biogeography, and global patterns of distribution.  Although no stranger to the Caribbean and Central West Pacific, my main research area has been the water around Mexico's Baja California peninsula.

September Competitions:

• Mini-comps: "Ugly", and also "Juveniles" (rescheduled from August) - please indicate which is which when you submit your entries!

Please see our submission instructions.  Entries due by 11:59pm Tuesday, September 19.

NOTE: Anastasia will not have email access over the weekend until late Tuesday night, so you will not receive a "I got your photos" reply until Wednesday morning.  If you're worried, please feel free to bring your entries on a thumb drive just in case.

Video entries may also be brought on thumb drive to the meeting, or you can  send them via email (laups.comp@gmail.com), Dropbox, WeTransfer, or other method.