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CUPS February 2010 Meeting
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February 2010 CUPS Meeting - The Best of Kona by Nick Ferris
Coming for February 16, 2010 - Nick Ferris reports on Kona, Hawaii:
Nick Ferris will provide us with new info on Kona, Hawaii, with a viewer friendly explanation of why Hawaii exists. And a lot of fish of course. More than just the Ring of Fire.
"The Best of Kona" will feature a great many kinds of reef fish and a few other residents of Hawaii's west coast. Some 28% of reef fish in Hawaii are endemic, meaning that they occur nowhere else.
Hawaii doesn't occur anywhere else either, so that makes good sense. Hawaii is a volcano, but not part of the volcanic "ring of fire". So we will examine WHY Hawaii is. Oh, and because Nick is a geologist, all geologists will be admitted free! Just kidding. Everyone is welcome. This should be a real treat.
Coming for March 16, 2010 - Mel Cundiff presenting "Reef Critters-the Echinoderms"
Coming for Apri 20 and May 18, 2010 Talks on Fiji and Marine Mammals.
The Downtown Aquarium is the new CUPS meeting place.
Please mark your calendar for 2010 - the Third Tuesday of each month!
(See link below for map.)
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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.
· 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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CUPS January 2010 Meeting
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January 2010 CUPS Meeting -
The Downtown Aquarium – Video Editing and More
Ed Sauer assisted by Sandra Schroth
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Classroom Doors Open 6:30 pm Presentation at 7:00 pm
Color Correction for video is back by popular demand. Ed Sauer will show the basics of color correction in Final Cut Pro 7 and color grading in Color 1.5. Techniques used will apply to most editing and color correcting software. If time allows, Ed will also cover cleaning up those annoying audio tracks and setting them at the correct levels.
Ed Sauer and Sandra Schroth, long time underwater and wildlife videographers have spent the last year shooting with their new camera, a RED ONE, a 4k digital cinema camera. They also have other video and digital cameras. They produced a short film, “Sharks Why do we Care” to educate the public on shark awareness.
Ed has designed and built several underwater housings for production cameras and the lighting to go with them. He will show his latest creation -- underwater LED video lights. With a whopping 6,020 lumens, he has still not run the small battery pack down in over 2 hours of operation. What will he do next? Bring your questions. Ed will keep this sometimes confusing subject simple...we hope!
From the December Meeting:
Thank you to the Aquarium Dive Safety Officer Todd Hall and Co-Manager of Education Alyce Todd for their tours of the Aquarium from Behind the Scenes and from the otherside. Thanks again!
Coming for February 16, 2010 - Nick Ferris reports on Kona, Hawaii:
Nick Ferris will provide us with new info on Kona, Hawaii, with a viewer friendly explanation of why Hawaii exists. And a lot of fish of course. More than just the Ring of Fire.
Coming for March 16, 2010 - Mel Cundiff presenting "Reef Critters-the Echinoderms"
Coming for Apri 20 and May 18, 2010 Talks on Fiji and Marine Mammals.
The Downtown Aquarium is the new CUPS meeting place.
Please mark your calendar for 2010 - 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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News and Upcoming Events
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Inviting volunteer to be Secretary-Treasurer
We have a vacancy for CUPS Secretary-Treasurer. The time required is minimal, but very important. We would greatly appreciate someone to help us with this position. Email us if you are interested.
A-1 May sale
The A-1 May sale is
going to be held May 22-23 at their facility on Oxford at Sante Fe. We are
negotiating for a display at this event. Volunteers are needed to head this up
and procurements of prizes.
Scuba Splash at the Downtown Aquarium
The "Scuba Splash"
at the Downtown Aquarium will be held July 31st and Aug 1st this is just a
preliminary heads-up and not set in stone, updates will be forth coming at a
later time. So start thinking about entry materials and preparation time for
both events.
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Glennie Nature Photo Competition
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CUPS Members invited to enter Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition
The Colorado Underwater Photographic Society is cordially invited to participate in the 30th annual George W. Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition, which will be held by the Merrimack Valley Camera Club, North Andover, MA on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
A PDF copy containing all the details is available by visiting the web site and clicking on 2010 Exhibition Description. Charlie Burke, Chair, 2010 Glennie Nature Interclub Exhibition, E-Mail: nichburke@yahoo.com
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CUPS November Meeting
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Raja Ampat Islands from Kri Eco by Paddy Ryan
Coming up for our Nov 17th meeting is a wonderful dive through the Four Kings, the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia. Paddy Ryan 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. He has dived in Cozumel, The Sea of Cortez, Samoa, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, the Bahamas, Belize, New Zealand and Indonesia. Next year he is leading a dive trip to Fiji.
Diving Accommodations in Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia are at the Kri Eco Resort which sits on a breathtakingly beautiful small island a 2-hour dive boat ride from Sorong's airport. Sitting on the edge of mountainous Kri Island the dive resort is shaded by palm trees that run along a long fine white sand beach. Kri Eco Resort is a simple, informal, but very comfortable dive resort in very pristine nature. Many guests like it for its peaceful location, natural surroundings and tropical island beauty.
The reefs around the Raja Ampat Islands off the Bird's Head Peninsular region of western New Guinea are considered to contain the world's highest biodiversity. During a three week stay Paddy did 43 dives and took over 5,000 photos. During one dive, renowned fish biologist Gerry Allen recorded 284 fish species. Paddy photographed 213 species. The total fish species count is now 1066 and growing. To put this into perspective, the most speciose place in the Caribbean is Bonaire with 371 species.
During this talk Dr. Ryan will discuss getting there, highlight some of the more spectacular species, and recount his experience of self-publishing a print on demand book.
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CUPS - The basics
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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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