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 17^th 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 6^th 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

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.

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 13^th:

Will replace regular November CUPS meeting

Making Waves in Colorado is happening November 13^th 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

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 background
Certified 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.

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.

**.July 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!!!

• 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.

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.
 
 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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