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CUPS APRIL NEWSLETTER:
CUPS Meeting Tues April 16th at 6:30 for socializing and 7pm for the presentation at the Downtown Aquarium.
The ‘Big Game’Thresher Sharks and the ‘Little Game’ Muck Diving of Malapascua, The Philippines
By Richard Barthorpe and Sonia Atwood
On their second trip back to the Philippines, they decided to stay for 6 weeks. It made sense to only pay one airfare. Richard and Sonia visited 6 locations diving in 5 of them. Malapascua is an island located off the Northeast tip of Cebu. Exotic Dive Resort is a first class facility from the white sand beach to rooms to food to diving and the staff. They offer dives to see the Thresher Shark cleaning station which may also include mantas and sail fish. Other dives include white tips sharks, mating cuddlefish, giant frogfish, ghost and robust pipefish, pegasus sea moths, pigmy seahorses, convict sea krait, nudibranchs galore and much more.
Richard and Sonia started diving in 1989 and 1982. Their real addiction came when they took up photography and videography. Their motto is, “There are some people who need diving to live.” They have worked at and owned a dive store, have been instructors and still lead a few dive trips each year. They have visited Australia, Belize, Bonaire, California, The Caymans, Florida, Fiji, Hawaii, Honduras (Roatan, Utila, Guanaja, Cayo Cachinos), Indonesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Mexico (Cozumel, Cancun, Sea of Cortez, Soccoro), Roatan, St Lucia, Tahiti, Truk, Texas Flower Gardens, and US and British Virgin Islands and locally (CO, NM, UT).
Future Meetings:
May 21 Steve Weaver will present the Wacky and Weird Critters of Lembeh, Indonesia
SEE CUPS on Facecbook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
· The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
· Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
· Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
· Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
· Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
Colorado Ocean Coalition “Blue Drinks” April 25th https://www.facebook.com/events/595115100506262/permalink/597367683614337/
Dr. Paddy Ryan is a PADI divemaster with well over 1,000 dives recorded. He has many publications including eight books. If you are interested in joining him on this year's dive trip to Baja, email Paddy.
Mel Cundiff is leading a Killer Trip to Southern Red Sea. We have booked a 36 meter high-end Live-aboard MY Suzanna out of Port Sudan for May 20-27, 2013 http://www.blueotwo.com Mel’s email is cundiff@colorado.edu for more info http://spot.colorado.edu/~cundiff/
Shark Bait Dive Club’s Palau trip and other upcoming trips!
The Team at CUPS
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CUPS Meeting Tues March 19 at 6:30 for socializing and 7pm for the presentation at the Downtown Aquarium.
Can’t keep your Anemonefish Straight? Nick’s Easy ID Primer and a Look at Their Behavior
Retired professional geologist, Dr. Nick Ferris, spent almost fifty years with his emphasis on silica sand, and exploration for uranium and gold. Somehow he found time to be a Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. Nick bought a SCUBA outfit and took up diving in early 1957. He went diving alone as there were very few others interested in SCUBA back then, still considered an acronym for Some Come Up Barely Alive. It was simple back then -- no certifications, no gauges, no neoprene, no counterweights and no B.C.s. The only rule was to come up when it got hard to breathe. That worked very well. In those days divers would end the dives with free ascents, just for drill. That's not encouraged anymore. But it can still be useful.
Nick got into underwater photography in 1976 when his wife bought him a Nikonos. He has used film cameras Nikonos II, Canon F-1, Nikon 8008, and Canon Rebels with Ikelite strobes, but was forced to go digital when he got too slow to change film underwater. He tried Olympus E-300 and Canon G-12 cameras and now shoots with a Sony NEX 5N camera, Nauticam Housing, and YS-01 strobes. His love for anemonefish grew because his scientific mind was not content to take pictures of pretty fish without learning about them. He has consulted with Gerry Allen, who he feels is the US expert on anemonefish. Some of Allen's work will be included.
John Daigle will show a video of pink skunk anemonefish (A. perideraion) spawning in his aquarium. Shot over a 6-month period, It reveals the surprising process of preparing the nest, moving the anemone out of the way, laying and fertilizing the eggs all the way through hatching and development to the juvenile stage. John and Nick Ferris have dived together on their quest for documenting anemonefish behavior (including a vicious attack by a Mom defending her young ones!) John will also show a variety of anemonefish species shot in Wakatobi, Manado, Siladen and Lembeh all in Indonesia.
Richard Barthorpe, Sonia Atwood, and Michael Stallings will also show some of their recent and interesting anemonefish shots and behavior videos.
Attendees: Please bring up to 5 still shots or 5 video clips of Your Anemonefish for identification and to learn about behavior.
Future Meetings:
April 16 Sonia Atwood and Richard Barthorpe - The ‘Big Game’ Thresher Sharks and the ‘Little Game’ Muck Diving of Malapascua, The Philippines
May 21 Steve Weaver will present the Wacky and Weird Critters of Lembeh, Indonesia
SEE CUPS on Facecbook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
· The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
· Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
· Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
· Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
· Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
Dr. Paddy Ryan is a PADI divemaster with well over 1,000 dives recorded. He has many publications including eight books. If you are interested in joining him on this year's dive trip to Baja, email Paddy.
Mel Cundiff is leading a Killer Trip to Southern Red Sea. We have booked a 36 meter high-end Live-aboard MY Suzanna out of Port Sudan for May 20-27, 2013 http://www.blueotwo.com Mel’s email is cundiff@colorado.edu for more info http://spot.colorado.edu/~cundiff/
Shark Bait Dive Club’s Palau trip and other upcoming trips!
The Team at CUPS
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The meeting will be Tuesday February 19th at 6:30 for socializing and 7pm for the presentation at the Downtown Aquarium.
Lightroom 4 Tips and Techniques for the Underwater Photographer: By Doug Sloss
Presentation Summary: Does your Lightroom workflow need a tune-up? Still trying to figure out the best way to design an effective setup for your catalog and image library? Lightroom is a very user friendly piece of software, but tapping into program's powerful editing features sometimes requires a bit of help.
Doug will be sharing some of his digital workflow tips from start to finish, with emphasis on develop techniques every underwater photographer should know to bring out the very best in their photos. This fast-paced presentation covers key develop edits using Lightroom 4's new Basic controls, then moves on to more advanced retouching scenarios using the Adjustment brush, Graduated filter and HSL controls for more localized edits. He'll also demonstrate a few sharpening tips and show you how to incorporate Photoshop editing into your Lightroom workflow. If you're still curious about how to fully into Lightroom's editing tools, this is your chance to find out. If time permits, there will also be a question and answer session to follow.
Bio for Doug Sloss
Doug Sloss is a freelance travel and underwater photographer who has taught hundreds of people to dive and shoot photography. His passion for teaching translated into the creation of a successful series of DVD tutorials that help underwater and topside shooters of all levels effectively and professionally post-process their images with Photoshop and Lightroom. Doug's work has appeared in numerous diving magazines and books worldwide. Doug currently teaches Lightroom and digital photography workshops around the world, both for underwater and land photography.
Visit his website at www.underwaterlightroom.com
SEE CUPS on Facecbook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
· The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
· Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
· Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
· Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
· Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
Dr. Paddy Ryan is a PADI divemaster with well over 1,000 dives recorded. He has many publications including eight books. If you are interested in joining him on this year's dive trip to Baja, email Paddy.
Colorado Ocean Coalition’s Blue Drinks expands to Golden!
Join us for our first Golden Blue Drinks at the Old Capitol Grill, 1122 Washington Avenue, Golden, 80401 on February 20th from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. We have a room reserved by the bar. Network with others involved in, interested about, or in love with our Ocean! RSVP here to join us!
Mel Cundiff is leading a Killer Trip to Southern Red Sea. We have booked a 36 meter high-end Live-aboard MY Suzanna out of Port Sudan for May 20-27, 2013 http://www.blueotwo.com Mel’s email is cundiff@colorado.edu for more info http://spot.colorado.edu/~cundiff/
Shark Bait Dive Club’s Palau trip and other upcoming trips!
The Team at CUPS
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CUPS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2013
Dr Paddy Ryan presents
The Raja Ampat region of Indonesia's Bird's Head Peninsular has some of the highest marine biodiversity on the planet. Paddy spent 3 weeks diving there in 2009 which whetted his appetite for another visit. This occurred in 2011 and this time he stayed 4 weeks. This talk presents some of the more spectacular photos of the trip and some unedited high definition video footage.
Cheers and beers,
Paddy
Dr. Patrick (Paddy) Ryan is a full professor at the Denver Campus of Johnson & Wales University where he teaches Ecology, Environmental Science, Marine Biology, and Ecotourism. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. He has been a photographer since he got his first camera, a box brownie, at the age of seven, and has been passionate about nature for nearly as long.
On leaving high school, Paddy spent a year in Sarawak in East Malaysia, as a volunteer with New Zealand’s Volunteer Service Abroad and then attended the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji for ten and a half years. On return to New Zealand in 1988, he worked as freshwater biologist and environmental planner before becoming a freelance environmental consultant and photographer.
In 1997 he moved to Thornton, Colorado to join Kathy. He has two daughters, Sarah and Lucy, step-daughters Becca and Sarah, and Sammi, his step grand-daughter. He also has part shares in three cats. He now lives with Laura, a black cat and a homicidal rabbit.
Dr. Ryan is a PADI divemaster with well over 1,000 dives recorded. He has many publications including eight books.
If you are interested in joining him on this year's dive trip to Baja, email Paddy.
SEE CUPS on Facebook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST: Blue Drinks social of the Colorado Ocean Coalition
UPCOMING TRIPS: News from Douglas Hofmann, I will be doing a photography workshop on the Siren in Fiji May 17-25, 2014. Now is a good time to sign up here contact info at bottom of his web page.
The Team at CUPS
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CONGRATULATIONS----- With great pleasure CUPS is announcing the winners of the Making WAVES event. We are asking all who were in the competition to donate to the Colorado Ocean Coalition a suggested $25 per entry would be appropriate; this is for a good cause and a tax write-off you can send your donations here Colorado Ocean Coalition donation. We thank you for your participation and with your donation you can expect many more Making WAVES in the future.
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ARTISTIC
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PHOTO'S NAME
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PHOTOGRAPHER
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PRIZE
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PROVIDER
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1st place
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Cheeky Spinecheek
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Larissa Roorda
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4 Nights 3 days diving
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Dive Paradise & Hotel Cozumel
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2nd place
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Mimic Swimming
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Al Knoblock
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2 tank dive trip
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Conch Republic
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3rd place
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Ebb and Flow Anemone
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Larissa Roorda
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LED Flashlight
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Ikelite
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BEHAVIOR
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PHOTO'S NAME
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PHOTOGRAPHER
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PRIZE
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PROVIDER
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1st place
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Swirling Pier
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Larissa Roorda
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4 night 3 day dive pac
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Divi Resort Bonaire
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2nd place
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Mandarin Love
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Mark Wolff
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Hammerhead Watch
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Lifestyle
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3rd place
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Harlequin Shrimp
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Richard Glouch
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LED Flashlight
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Ikelite
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ENVIRONMENTAL
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PHOTO'S NAME
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PHOTOGRAPHER
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PRIZE
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PROVIDER
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1st place
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Old Net and Cuttlefish
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Daffy Knoblock
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3 days of diving for 2
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Aqua-Trek
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2nd place
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Resting Turtle
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Richard Glouch
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Hammerhead Watch
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Lifestyle
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3rd place
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Heron Fishing in the shallow
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John Gordon
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Two OPS shirts
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OPS
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Thank You,
The Team at CUPS
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COLORADO UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Come and see our Photo Exhibit at Making Waves Oct 21 in Boulder at the Wolff Law Building on CU campus. This event is not to be missed! With Jean Michael Cousteau and Dr Sylvia Earle and numerous other ocean heroes! To register for this event go to the Colorado Ocean Coalition website.
The Winners of the online Photo Contest in Artistic Category are:
- Cheeky Spinecheek
- underwater color
- Mimic Swimming
- Purple Seafan found on the Beach
- Gray Angel in the Blue
- Tastes Like Chicken
- Nudibranch-Chromodoris Annane
- Nudibranch-Fish Net Hypselodoris
- Ebb and Flow Anemone
- Red on Red Triplefin
- Octopus Lifts off Reef
- Bubble Coral Fish
The Winners of the online Photo Contest in Behavior Category are:
- Mandarin Love
- Puppy Luv
- Making Waves
- Mosaic Octopus
- Yawning
- Harlequin Shrimp
- Swirling Pier
- Scrambled Eggs aka Notodoris Minor
- Slow Ride...
- Hawkfish in Anemone
- Lying in wait
- Hide & Seek
The Winners of the online Photo Contest in Behavior Category are:
- Old Net and Octopus
- Resting Turtle
- Poparazzi
- Sunny Side Up
- Heron Fishing in the shallow
- Elephant Ear Sponge and a diver
- Snell's Window
- Diver in Sunlight
- Something About Hairy
- Flores Seahorse
- Scorpionfish
- Spotted Moray
Congratulations if your photo was chosen to be at the Making Waves Event in the CUPS photo exhibit and contest. Now in order to make this a successful competition you will need to follow these instructions carefully.
1. Have the print made in its highest resolution that you have of image.
2. The outside of the frame can be no larger than 24 inches on the longest side. (preferably about 20 inches)
3. The mating and frame can be anything of your choice.
4. The cover should be Plexiglas for safety. (no glass please)
5. It should be capable of being mounted to grid-wall with zip ties from the top of picture frame.
6. Please use bubble wrap and cardboard to protect your photo. (Make sure to put your name on all wrapping materials!)
7. Delivery will be at the October CUPS meeting. Otherwise you will have to deliver it to the Wolff Law building on the CU campus Boulder, no later than 7:30am Sunday October 21.
8. You should plan to attend the event to receive award or prize if selected (Go online and register for the Making Waves Event and to order lunch). Colorado Ocean Coalition
9. If one or more of your images was chosen please forward your contact information and details for each photo chosen using the names listed above to info@cupsonline.net
CUPS Lighted Display Grid has room for 36 images of a limited size this will be prominently displayed in area with high traffic Guest judges from the qualified speakers at MAKING WAVES will choose 1st 2nd and 3rd from each category prizes may be available. These winners will be announced by CUPS at the event.
Thank you for your Consideration,
The Team at CUPS
If you have any additional questions contact me.
John Gordon
303-477-5951 or 720-690-5463 cel
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 CUPS Meeting -- 6:30pm socializing -- 7pm Presentation
Ocean enthusiasts and the community are invited to join the premiere of
Green Fire Productions new film, “Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean
Stewardship.” This event, which is open to the public, has been gaining acclaim across the country.
“Ocean Frontiers” is a documentary that tells the story of people across the country working together to help protect our watersheds, coastlines and oceans, which many of our nation’s communities and economies rely on. The interconnectivity of land use and how it affects the oceans is a major topic of the documentary. After the screening we can discuss your concerns and interests. Get a preview here http://ocean-frontiers.org/
Also this movie has some great underwater footage.
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CUPS U/W Photo Contest at COCO’s MAKING WAVES 2012 with CSRA support (please note that Firefox works best)
Your photo contest entries can be part of Making Waves!
News! - Jean Michele Cousteau is coming to Colorado in October. He will be the keynote speaker along with Dr Sylvia Earle at Making Waves in Boulder for the Colorado Ocean Coalition. This event will behold many other ocean conservation luminaries stay tuned here!
This photo contest will be in two stages. The first will be online (here on the CUPS Website). Photos will be uploaded and they will be voted on to determine the participants who will have their images displayed at Making Waves and to be judged for prizes. The concept includes different categories of ARTISTIC, BEHAVIOR and ENVIRONMENTAL.
Once you become registered member on CUPS website (it's free!) you will need to follow the instructions on this page and rules of the contest to upload your photographs in the Contest Gallery. Contestants may enter up to 3 photos entries for each category.
Deadlines:
- Upload your photo entries from now until midnight September 19th.
- Voting begins September 20th and will close at midnight September 27th.
Three steps to enter!
Step #1 How to enter the contest and Rules
Step #2 How to upload your contest entries
Step #3 Upload your entries (free) in ARTISTIC, BEHAVIOR or ENVIRONMENTAL Photo Galleries
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 CUPS Meeting -- 6:30pm socializing -- 7pm Presentation
An Introduction to the Identification and Ecology of Fish for Divers and Snorkelers.
Summary: Photos and videos of fish commonly seen on the reef outline with information about characters and lifestyles. People generally look at fish based on shape, but there is more you can do: What do they eat? How do they behave? Who are they related to? How do they fit with their environment? This relies more on visuals and less on biological theory. And yes, you ought to log your dives with flora and fauna you see and illustrate your computer photo book with fish, date, and location.
Jon Miller learned to dive first in the Caribbean in 1975 reading original PADI documents and was certified in Seattle, Washington in 1977 while studying physics at the University of Washington. He is an attorney practicing transactional law in Boulder, CO but also involved in filmmaking and photography. Over the last decade, he has become a PADI MSDT, a SSI Advanced Instructor (inactive) and shot underwater photos and videos in British Columbia, Florida, Cozumel, Bali, and Belize. He is passionate about the study of biology and environmental policy.
NEWS!!! Jean Michele Cousteau is coming to Colorado in October 20th & 21st. He will be the keynote speaker along with Dr Sylvia Earle at Making Waves in Boulder for the Colorado Ocean Coalition. This event will behold many other ocean conservation luminaries stay tuned here! CUPS will have our photo display at this event! Watch for details.
SEE CUPS on Facebook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting. Especially Fish ID photos this month
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
The Colorado Dive Show is coming back September 28th and 29th we will have a booth at the show. Get your photos ready! We will have our display at this event the first 38 framed entries will be displayed.
Mark your calendars for the Colorado Ocean Coalition’s Making Waves 2012 and the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Boulder October 20th and 21st
UPCOMING TRIPS: News from Douglas Hofmann, I will be doing a photography workshop on the Siren in Fiji May 17-25, 2014. Now is a good time to sign up here contact info at bottom of his web page.
The Team at CUPS
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012 CUPS Meeting 6:30pm socializing 7pm presentation
University of Colorado Professor Mel Cundiff will again be our featured speaker Thursday. His past talks have often drawn large crowds, so come join us. Mel had the opportunity to take a submersible really deep and his talk will be on his experience and what he saw. Come listen as Mel takes us “Beyond the Reef – Into the Twilight Zone”!! Who is MEL CUNDIFF? He is a guy who has managed to combine Scuba Diving with his Employment. As Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at CU in Boulder, he also doubles as a Scuba Instructor. He also has to his credit contributions or publication including some of his photos in Dive Training, Alert Diver, Colorado-Wyoming Scientist, Colorado-Views from CU-Boulder, Diving Into Darkness: The Elements of Safe Night Diving, Between the Reefs, Underwater Universe and Who's Who in Scuba Diving.
Mel teaches advanced college-credit courses in Tropical Marine Ecology and Coral Reef Ecology-the latter course being taught in Cozumel, Mexico, to SCUBA-certified, seňor-level biology students. Each year he presents about four all-day, well-illustrated "Coral Reef Ecology" seminars to SCUBA-certified divers in the Colorado area. These seminars have been well received and, along with the coral reef ecology course, have been the focal point of some of his articles published. Now I ask you - where will he go next? Come to the meeting and he will invite you along.
REVIEW: I have seen this presentation and it is very different and intriguing lots of creatures you may not see anywhere else, perhaps Mel’s best to date – John Gordon
NEWS!!! Jean Michele Cousteau is coming to Colorado in October. He will be the keynote speaker along with Dr Sylvia Earle at Making Waves in Boulder for the Colorado Ocean Coalition. This event will behold many other ocean conservation luminaries stay tuned here!
SEE CUPS on Facebook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2012 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own MapQuest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST: Meet Peter Hammarstedt, second mate of Sea Shepherd, at Weaver's Dive Center in Boulder check it out here Meetup Event Page
Mark your calendars for the Colorado Ocean Coalition’s Making Waves 2012 and the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Boulder October 20th and 21st
UPCOMING TRIPS: News from Douglas Hoffman, I will be doing a photography workshop on the Siren in Fiji May 17-25, 2014. Now is a good time to sign up here contact info at bottom of his web page.
The Team at CUPS
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012 CUPS Meeting
Nick Ferris discusses Sony NEX 5N camera and Beqa Lagoon in Fiji.
The meeting time is 6:30 for socializing and presentation at 7pm.
The first short presentation is on the new u/w rig featuring the Sony NEX 5N camera, Nauticam Housing, and YS-01 strobes, and the reasons for my using them.
The second presentation briefly covers the Beqa Lagoon Fiji trip in February, the resort and especially the diving with emphasis on images taken with the new rig.
Retired professional geologist. Fifty year career after earning Ph.D., emphasizing silica sand, and exploration for uranium and gold. Also retired as Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. Still a competitive rifle shooter. Bought a SCUBA outfit and took up diving in early 1957. Mostly dived alone as there were very few others interested in SCUBA, still considered an acronym for Some Come Up Barely Alive. It was simple back then -- no certifications, no gages, no neoprene, no counterweights and no B.C.s. The only rule was to come up when it got hard to breathe. That worked very well. Used to end the dives with free ascents, just for drill. That's not encouraged anymore. But it can still be useful.
Underwater photography can be addictive, ruining dives with frustration, but it challenging one to come back and try to get the sand grains in better focus. Film cameras were great, but I was getting too slow to change film under water. Digital cameras have lifted that burden. Eventually u/w photographers get old and feeble. The smart ones quit and take up golf or ironman competition. The others need smaller and lighter cameras, and a large liveaboard crew to get them geared up and pushed overboard. Tonight I'll talk about a smaller camera.
Nick
SEE CUPS on Facebook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
Colorado Ocean Coalition Dairy Center Ocean Frontiers screening 7:00pm Tue, May 21 Planning for Making Waves 2012. Blue Drinks at 5:30pm to RSVP
Shark Bait Dive Club Meeting June 14th CUPS member Michael Stallings Presents
The Dive Club Ocean First Meeting
Denver Photographic Society Web Site photographic equipment Swap meet coming soon.
UPCOMING TRIPS:
Whale Shark Adventure in Mexico with Colorado Ocean Coalition July 19th For more information go to COCO link above or http://reefstorockies.com/ or call 303-860-6045
The Team at CUPS
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 CUPS Meeting
Diving Playa del Carmen (and other treats) by Michael Stallings
The meeting time is 6:30 for socializing and presentation at 7pm.
The presentation encompasses three videos of Mike's trip to Playa del Carmen in August 2011. The videos are of 1. Local reef diving offshore at Playa del Carmen, 2. Diving the Kukulcan Cenote and 3. Snorkeling with whale sharks. The diversity and diving opportunities in this area provide for an adventurous vacation. The whale shark video combines sequences shot with a miniDV camcorder and a GoPro wide angle video.
In addition, if time permits and if people are interested in watching… Mike will have a screening of his 2006 trip to Sangalaki.
About Mike:
Since 2001, Mike Stallings has produced underwater videos under the name MASDIVE. Mike still shoots with his original underwater equipment: a Sony TRV900 miniDv camcorder, housed in a T-9 Undersea's Video Housing with dual florescent lights. Additional production lenses include a 0.6 wide angle, an internal 4x achromatic and an external 2x "Woody" CU lenses. He edits video using a dedicated standalone PC running Avid/Pinnacle Liquid 7.2.
SEE CUPS on Facebook! And The Colorado Scuba Meetup Group please RSVP
NEW BRING AND SHARE: Time permitting we will show your photos or items of interest during the meeting.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST:
Colorado Ocean Coalition Blue Drinks Tue, May 22 Planning for Making Waves 2012.
Sea Shepherd’s Paul Watson Event Fri, May 11 Listen to the Man who brings you Whale Wars.
Shark Bait Dive Club Meeting Paddy Ryan’s BP oil spill enlightening exposé.
The Dive Club Ocean First Meeting Mel Cundiff Presents into the Twilight Zone deep submersible.
Denver Photographic Society Web Site photographic equipment Swap meet coming soon.
The Team at CUPS
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Tues., April 17, 2012 CUPS Meeting
Jim Durkee will present vignettes on Tigers, Sharks and Underwater Archeology.
The meeting time is 6:30 for socializing and presentation at 7pm
About Jim Durkee: he is an Underwater Photographer who is now taking fantastic topside wildlife photos. He has traveled around the globe to capture the exotic wildlife in his images and has a collection of Underwater Photographs as well.
NEW!!!SHARE: Anything you would like to share with fellow members please bring it with you, this would include digital images, camera gear, framed photos and books. This will be done before and after the presentation.
SEE CUPS on Facebook!
** March Meeting Thank you to Paddy Ryan for the enlightening exposé on BP oil spill - !
**May 15 Meeting – TBA
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
The Team at CUPS
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Tues., March 20, 2012 CUPS Meeting
The BP Oil Spill
An Exclusive Inside-Look by Paddy Ryan
The meeting time is 6:30 for socializing and presentation at 7pm
About Paddy Ryan: he is an Underwater Photographer who takes fantastic photos above and below water. The Oil Spill opened an opportunity for Paddy to combine his environmental interests with his photographic talents. He spent several weeks on location with exclusive access.
About Paddy Ryan: Paddy was born In England and has lived in Jersey in the Channel Islands, Fiji, New Zealand, Sarawak, Australia and the US. He has a doctorate in zoology and is currently employed at Johnson & Wales University in Denver where he is a full professor and interim Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences. He also teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. He is a keen, widely published, nature photographer who has written a number of books including the Snorkeler’s Guide to the Coral Reef, Fiordland Underwater - New Zealand’s Hidden Wilderness, Fiji’s Natural Heritage and most recently Kri Eco - Raja Ampat. He has been diving for 30 years and taking underwater photographs for nearly all of that time. He’s a PADI dive master with well over 1000 dives to his credit.
NEW!!!SHARE: Anything you would like to share with fellow members please bring it with you, this would include digital images, camera gear, framed photos and books. This will be done before and after the presentation.
** February Meeting Thank you to Douglas J Hoffman - !
**April 17 Meeting – Jim Durkee has put together 2 or 3 short vignettes on Sharks, Tigers and undwater archeology.
Help - please volunteer to present at a future meeting contact: info@cupsonline.net
- The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place. Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map, here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants, Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule at the beautiful Downtown Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
The Team at CUPS
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| Nick Ferris Fiji Trip Report
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Fiji Trip Report - Beqa Lagoon Resort - February 2012
Story and Photography by Nick Ferris
The Beqa (pronounced Benga) Lagoon Resort is on a large island in Beqa Lagoon opposite Pacific Harbor on the southeast part of the main Island of Viti Levu, Fiji. It used to be the Marlin Bay Resort.
Slingjaw Wrasse
The bus ride from the airport at Nadi (pronounced Nandy) to Pacific Harbour near Suva takes about 3 hours, counting a long stop in Sigatoka where screaming loud shirts and war clubs could be purchased. A 40 minute boat ride takes you to the resort.
Guests stay in very nice cabins called bures. The restaurant and office are in a large thatched roof long house. Meals were all very good, with choices of main dishes that included vegetarian. All the personnel were friendly and helpful. There was usually some afternoon visit to a village or waterfall, and evening entertainment.
The typical program calls for 2 scuba dives in the morning, leaving the afternoon for entertainment, socializing, or sacking out. Typically, however, the dive boat doesn’t return for lunch until 2 PM. One reason is that the dive sites are 40 to 50 minutes running time away. Another is that there is no dock, which creates a logistics delay that affects everything. The native land owners won’t allow it, and the cyclonic storms would ruin it. So air tanks and divers are taken in separate boats with outboard motors across hundreds of yards of shallows to where the dive boats are tied to mooring buoys. This takes place coming and going, for 3 boats, every day. Fuel and other provisions are additional problems.
The diving was problematic. There had been several cyclones which resulted in floods that washed a lot of debris and silt into the ocean and reduced visibility to 30 or 40 feet. Still, the water temperature was 83 F and a lot of coral and fish were entirely visible. The more serious problems were that the three dive boats are not is the best condition. One broke down and had to be towed back. One is used to take/get guests to or from Pacific Harbor so is not used for diving then. This results in various dive groups being combined, with 20 or more on the cattle boat. One day the tank refill equipment was down and only one dive was made. The most noticeable problem was that several of the native divemasters did not look back at the divers or respond to their signals concerning air pressure. Some divemasters were quite good, of course. Nonetheless, there was insufficient communication and understanding both in and above water as to what the dive was all about and what the divers wanted to do or see. Each week a night dive near the resort and a shark dive far from the resort are available at extra cost. The shark dive was deep and attended by (too) many divers from the Pacific Harbour area.
Fiji Anemonefish
Other than diving with part of my family, my purpose was to try out a new camera-strobe-housing system. I saw a species of butterflyfish and of anthias that were new to me. Large families of the red Fiji anemonefish in bulb-tipped anemone nests atop coral bommies made endless photo opportunities. Colorful slingjaw wrasses were cooperative targets.
Hexabranchus sp. (Giant Nudibranch)
The main event, however, was the giant nudibranch (Hexabranchus), discovered by Mark Stephenson of Rock Mountain Diving Center, my wife, and myself in 71 feet of water on a sandy bottom. It was mostly red with large poorly defined spots, and measured 11 inches. In summary, the Beqa Lagoon Resort is good if you stay ashore, with good to problematic scuba diving. The new camera needs more testing, of course.
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FEBRUARY MEETING:
We had a large turnout for Douglas Hoffman's presentation on Diving with the Humpback Whales of Tonga. He gave us details on the techniques for having a highly successful photographic encounter with the whales. It was a great privilege to have Doug and his wife Meiko join us here in Colorado.
JANUARY meeting was an organization discussion group to cover CUPS priorities for the future. The CUPS website did get an overview and the NEW CUPS FaceBook Page was also discussed. The face book page will allow us to use it like a forum at the same time attract new members, also increase our presence in the world of diving and photography on the web. We did have an unveiling of a CUPS T-shirt. Several good ideas were discussed, including members wanted more interactive presentations ie. Equipment and Photoshop techniques.
FEBRUARY MEETING:
Our friend Douglas Hoffman from Maui (formally Colorado) will be in town for a short visit and will only be available on February 6th for his presentation on The Humpbacks of Tonga and The Sharks of Fiji. We now know the location; it will be at El Senor Sol right across the street from the Downtown Aquarium. The restaurant will serve dinner at 6pm and the presentation will begin at 7pm. You may to choose to attend the presentation without having dinner. This is a not to be missed event of some truly majestic images of Humpback Whales. Mark your calendars.
The Team at CUPS
From Douglas:
Originally from Colorado but now based in Maui Hawaii, Douglas is a professional photographer. Douglas and wife Mieko operate Maui Photography specializing in family portraiture. The couple also runs Maui Photo tours which takes visitors to Maui to scenic locations and helps them create beautiful landscape photographs along the way. Two or three times a year Douglas leads small groups of photographers, divers, or snorkelers on adventures and workshops to destinations throughout the Pacific-Rim, including Fiji, Indonesia, and Tonga. Douglas has well over 10,000 dives and still has incredible passion for diving and all forms of marine life, and especially Humpback whales.
All that has changed really is that I received the PPA Master of Photography Degree. Started Maui Photo Tours and Workshops
Travel schedule- people are welcome to join.
July 30 - Aug 9, 2012 I will go to Raja Ampat, Manakwari, and Chandrawasih Bay Indonesia on The Damai I. On Aug 10, I will go to the Lembeh strait fro a week.
I have been hired to be the special host and inwater guide for a few special adventures in 2012 and 2013.
2012 schedule.
Sept 12-19th 8 day live-aboard trip dedicated to whales in Ha'apai Tonga. Limited to 6 people to maximize the fun for everyone on the boat.
Sept 21-29th 9 day live-abaord trip dedicated to whales. Adventure starts in Ha'apai and ends in Vava'u Tonga. Limited to 6 people to maximize the fun for everyone on the boat.
2013 schedule.
Sept 20-30th, Ha;apai to Vava'u
Oct 2-11th, vava'u to Ha'apai
The boat is 20 meter sailing catamaran and it is owned by Tris and Dave Sheen of Whale Discoveries. The couple has over 180,000 miles of sailing and 28 years experience working with whales.
Small groups = big encounters.
This years program will begin with some fun images of sharks that were all created during a week of diving in Fiji in mid October 2011. Then it will get into Humpback whales. I will talk a bit more about how the whale swim industry works in an effort to educate people so if they decide to go to Tonga they know what to expect. I will talk about, regulations, types of boats, type of whale behavior, importance of adopting an all about we not all about the shot attitude, and how to photograph whales.
Mahalo
Douglas
Douglas J Hoffman
www.douglasjhoffman.com
dhoffmanphoto.wordpress.com
www.mauiphotography.net
www.mauiphototours.net
808 879 0260
"Like" on my FACEBOOK page
The Team at CUPS
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The screening of THE COVE was a big success and enlightening for all those who attended. The insight provided by Cove cameraman Eric Abramson gave viewers a very unique experience. He was able to present members with information from his personal experience on making of the movie; it was truly a privilege to have him join us.
The other JANUARY meeting is an organization discussion group to cover CUPS priorities for the future. The meeting will be at our regular time January 17th 6:30pm at the Downtown Aquarium. The CUPS website we get an overview and the NEW CUPS FaceBook Page will also be discussed. The face book page will allow us to use it like a forum at the same time attract new members, also increase our presence in the world of diving and photography on the web. We may have an unveiling of a beta version of a CUPS T-shirt. If you would like to have a voice in the future of CUPS please attend. You might want to bring laptop or pad.
FEBURARY MEETING:
Our friend Douglas Hoffman from Maui (formally Colorado) will be in town for a short visit and will only be available on February 6th for his presentation on The Humpbacks of Tonga and The Sharks of Fiji. We now know the location; it will be at El Senor Sol right across the street from the Downtown Aquarium. The restaurant will serve dinner at 6pm and the presentation will begin at 7pm. You may to choose to attend the presentation without having dinner. This is a not to be missed event of some truly majestic images of Humpback Whales. There will be more info coming soon, so mark your calendars.
The Team at CUPS
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REMINDER: The regularly scheduled December meeting was moved to the 8th and no meeting for Tuesday Dec 20th
We would like to thank Walt and Karen Sterns for their extraordinary Presentations of UNDERWATER JOURNAL and Wakatobi Resort it was great fun to share the Holiday spirit with the members of CUPS and Shark Bait Dive Club.
Join us at White Fence Farm for a Special joint Christmas Meeting December 8th 6-6:30: pm dinner 7:15-7:30 Presentation optional gift exchange white elephant or $15-20 gift. MAP
If you plan to attend and have dinner choose chicken or shrimp and RSVP to info@sharkbaitdiveclub.com
22.45 Fried Chicken
23.75 Fried Shrimp
Colorado Underwater Photographic
Society & Shark Bait Dive Club
Behind the Lens
A Presentation with Walt Stearns
Renowned photojournalist and publisher of UNDERWATER JOURNAL
December 8, 2011
Featuring a slide show of imagery, a review of wide-angle
techniques including composition and lighting, followed by Q&A
BONUS – a brief presentation on
Wakatobi Dive Resort with Karen Stearns
About Walt Stearns
For over 20 years, Walt Stearns’ writing and extraordinary imagery have graced a wide range of broadcast, print and online media, earning him the reputation as one of the world’s most credible and frequently published photojournalists. Walt’s work targets the many facets of the outdoors, local lifestyles and the marine environment.
Among watersport enthusiasts, he is best known for his stunning cover shots for Salt Water Sportsman and Sport Fishing, Boating Life and Power Cruising and scuba diving publications such as Sport Diver, Scuba Diving, Skin Diver, Discover Diving, Ocean Realm and Scuba Times magazines, as well as many catalogues and guidebooks for numerous tourist boards, retail brands and travel related operations such as the Cayman Islands Tourism Board, Henderson Aquatics, Matangi Island Resort, Aggressor Fleet and Dancer Fleet, Ltd.
As an editor, contributing editor and freelancer, Walt’s work has appeared in Boating, Boating Life, Motor Boating, Salt Water Sportsman, Sport Fishing, Field & Stream, Marlin, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Fishing World, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Outdoor Photographer, Caribbean Travel & Life, Florida Travel & Life, Islands Magazines, as well as numerous others. The online publication, The Underwater Journal, is a collaboration of Walt’s years of experience in the marine industry.
Walt has been a key participant in documentary film projects such as “Wild Horizons” with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), “Perfect Predators”, “African Shark Safari” and “Mystery of the Whale Cave” for Discovery Channel and many productions on national and cable networks.
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THIS WAS AN EVENT CHANGING THE FACE OF COLORADO IN OCEAN CONSERVATION
Making Waves in Colorado was quite the success, very well attended and inspirational event with a number of CUPS members participating. You can see photos and read about the event at the Colorado Ocean Coalition Face Book site linked here.
EXTRAORDINARY SPECIAL EVENT NOVEMBER 13th:
Will replace regular November CUPS meeting
Making Waves in Colorado is happening November 13th in Boulder. This event will feature an afternoon of symposiums and an evening with the legendary Sylvia Earle.
The Colorado Ocean Coalition is celebrating its one year anniversary this November 13 in Boulder, Colorado. Dr Sylvia Earle has offered to join us in a celebration. In addition, we will be honoring the Sylvia Earle Foundation and Teens4Oceans. The free to the public event will be from 1-5pm at the Boulder Public Library; which Dr Earle, Louie Psihoyos and Shawn Heinrichs will participate along with other notables see flyer below.
The oceans need our help and we can’t just let the coastal states be our voice. The Colorado Ocean Coalition emerged as a way to engage people living in-land to connect with our ocean planet. Until now, there has never been a unified voice for ocean protection in the Mountain States. We are creating that voice by developing a strong network made up of ocean enthusiasts.
The Boulder Public Library is co-hosting the afternoon event where hundreds of people will learn about a variety of climate/ocean topics including marine sanctuaries, plastics and environmental impacts, marine protected areas, and agricultural and watershed connections. More importantly, they will learn what they can do and how to get involved. We are partnering with NOAA's National Marine Sanctuary Program, CIRES, David Helvarg, Blue Frontiers, The Oceanic Preservation Society "The Cove", local dive shops, Jim Toomey cartoonist of Sherman's Lagoon, educators, CU and many others.
The evening portion is a fundraising cocktail party from 7-10 at the Rembrant Yard in Boulder where Dr. Sylvia Earle will give a presentation, as well as an opportunity for people to meet other ocean supporters.
This event is growing and promises to be a unique opportunity. CUPS members can join this event by going to these pages for more detailed information and registration at these links. Register for Colorado Ocean Coalition Newsletter on Program Flyer page upper left corner.
New Additions to program!!!!
Program Flyer Updated!
Evening with Dr Sylvia Earle ($75) with link for registration
Schedule of free afternoon Symposiums
Boulder Public Library
Questions: John Gordon
jgdiver51@hotmail.com
720-690-5463
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| CUPS October Meeting Announcement
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Jack Kirk will present on a seven day shark expedition in West Palm Beach - October 18 Summary:The presentation focuses on a seven day shark expedition that begins in West Palm Beach and takes place between Tiger Beach, a shallow sand bar about fifty miles north of West End, Grand Bahama Island, Little Issacs lighthouse and Bimini. Although the main characters are the fifteen to seventeen foot tiger sharks, we were blessed with many large lemon sharks in the ten to twelve foot range, plus giant hammerheads, bulls and greys, not to mention the usual entourage of fish the tigers seem to attract. The shark encounters on this expedition are completely random and are nothing like the Stuart Cove or UNEXO shark dives.The boat we used, the Shearwater, is a sixty five foot twin diesel that sleeps fifteen in bunks comfortably, a crew of five, a decent galley, two heads, decent compressor and Nitrox, and some of the most interesting characters you will ever dive with. The trip is recommended for advanced divers only due to interaction and attracts primarily photographers and shark aficionados. I only wish that this presentation could be the adrenaline pumping, heart stopper that the expedition was! Jack's backgroundCertified in 1966 through SCIP (it was merged with NAUI in 1970) my diving began in Texas lakes and eastern Florida. In 1973 I was transferred to Hawaii to build and manage a chain of full service dive shops, receiving my instructor's rating in 1976 and was able to dive many areas in the western Pacific. I purchased my first camera, a Nikonos III with a bulb flash and Sekonic light meter in 1973. Still a film guy, I use a Nikon F100 in a Sea & Sea NX 100 Pro with two Ikelight Substrobes and variety of lenses and ports from 12 mm to 105 mm.
The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place.
Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link
below for map.)
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just
south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free
parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of
the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this
lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street
from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water
Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to
your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown
Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map,
here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants,
Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule
at the beautiful Downtown
Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
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Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place.
Tues. Aug 16, 2011 CUPS Meeting Come Drive and Dive with Paddy - A Central American Dream Adventure
Dr Paddy Ryan has been
threatening to give a talk about the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill since last
summer. But while it still remains on the agenda it has been over-taken by a
more exciting story - at least to Paddy. He is just back from a 9 week, 10,059
mile odyssey that took him through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This talk is a quick over-view of the
highlights. And yes - there are underwater photos - including a tailless whip
scorpion underwater in a cave - but it's mostly topside stuff. Paddy reckons
this is a three beer talk so be prepared.
About Paddy Ryan: Paddy
was born In England and has lived in Jersey in the Channel Islands, Fiji, New
Zealand, Sarawak, Australia and the US. He has a doctorate in zoology and is
currently employed at Johnson & Wales University in Denver where he is a
full professor and interim Chair of the School of Arts and Sciences. He also
teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. He is a keen,
widely published, nature photographer who has written a number of books
including the Snorkeller’s Guide to the
Coral Reef, Fiordland Underwater -
New Zealand’s Hidden Wilderness, Fiji’s
Natural Heritage and most recently
Kri Eco - Raja Ampat. He has been
diving for 30 years and taking underwater photographs for nearly all of that
time. He’s a PADI dive master with well
over 1000 dives to his credit.
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Meeting - Thank you to CUPS Members who presented us with their best shots in preparation for THE COLORADO DIVE SHOW
(CDS). coming September 23-24 of 2011. To prepare you entries, please see the guidelines sent to you last month or go to the following link on the Forum: http://www.cupsonline.net/CUPSForums/CUPSOnlineForumsEntryPage/tabid/125/forumid/8/postid/717/view/topic/Default.aspx
**Coming
for Sep 20, 2011 Snorkel with the Whale Sharks by John Pierce!!!
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Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just
south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free
parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of
the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this
lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street
from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water
Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to
your right on the first level. Doors open 6:30 PM Talk at 7:00 PM.
- Map: Denver Downtown
Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map,
here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants,
Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule
at the beautiful Downtown
Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
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The Downtown Aquarium is the CUPS meeting place.
Please mark your calendar for 2011 - the Third Tuesday of each month! (See link
below for map.)Tues., 21, 2011 CUPS Meeting Whales, Eagles, Swans and Monkeys by Jim Durkee
The meeting time is 6:30
for socializing and presentation at 7pm The
presentation encompasses two videos of Mike's trip to the Philippines in
November 2009. The videos are Program, Part One: California grey whales, Magdelena Bay, Mexico
Exciting shots of Grey Whales on their migration to their favorite vacation spot
Program Part Two: Northern Japan in winter. Come visit the Hokkaido Island Stellar Sea Eagles, red
crowned cranes, whooping swans (cough, cough).
Honshu Island snow monkeys of Nagano. Left over from the Olympics, no doubt.
For
a finale we have a short video on the birth of the Denise Pigmy
Seahorses from taken by Larry and Denise Tackett (named for Denise).
About Jim: Jim
is an avid scuba diver but also leads groups on travels in search of
marine mammals, birds and other wildlife.His travels have taken him from
80 degrees N to 65 degrees S. As a Nature {hotographer, he photographs
in the animal's natural habitat where they are free.
**.May
Meeting - Thank you to Paddy Ryan for Stop and Smell
the Roses. The photography was fantastic. His eye for patterns is
amazing. Paddy is currently on his drive to Belize and Costra Rica - yes
DRIVE!!! He is currently on his drive through the Yucatan of Mexico - 5
more weeks to go! **Coming for July 19, 2011 Let's have everyone
bring 10 of their best photos to prepare for the September Scuba Show
and everyone can help them select. Dust off your computers!!!
**The
Colorado Scuba Show is Sep 23 and 24 please prepare your photos as CUPS
will have a booth to display members photos. We will also be looking
for volunteers to work the booth.
- Note: There is usually free parking in the lot just
south and in the adjacent Children's Museum parking lot. You can enter this free
parking area by taking the first driveway entrance on the right just south of
the aquarium main building. We have received reports of car break-ins at this
lot as it is unattended. Otherwise there is parking directly across the street
from the Aquarium at a flat $7 in the evening.
- Entrance: Go through the double doors on the Water
Street side (across from Senor Sol Restaurant) and the classroom is directly to
your right on the first level.
- Map: Denver Downtown
Aquarium If you want to make your own Mapquest Direction map,
here is the official address: 700 Water St, Denver, CO 80211
- Thanks to the hospitality of Landry's Restaurants,
Inc., CUPS will be able to return to our regular third-Tuesday meeting schedule
at the beautiful Downtown
Aquarium in their spacious classroom.
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About CUPS - The Colorado Underwater Photographic Society (CUPS), was formed to promote the art and practice of underwater photography as our members travel the globe in search of the best images (still and video). Read our mission statement here.
About the CUPS Website - John Daigle is our host and webmaster our site is administered by him and several other officers of CUPS. Please Contact Us with any questions. Archives of past meetings now available To access the Archive of past meetings, hover over the CUPS Home tab and click on Archives - Past Member Meetings.
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