posted by Sharon Rainis on 2009/06/03
“Aphrodite” – The Cyprus Experience Competition
Day 3 (June 3rd)
After two days of diving at the Zenobia, which is considered to be quite a deep dive site (17-42 meters), one would have expected the divers pace to slow down a bit today, but this certainly was not the case. Fully motivated and determined to accomplish their goals, underwater photographers kept taking advantage of any opportunity to go back to the water, thereby increasing the chance that their memory card consists of a winning image. Naturally, the safety tank positioned at the bottom of the boat, at a depth of 5 meters, became more and more popular, as nice and long safety stops at the end of the dive became even more essential than before.
Even when simply observing the divers preparing themselves on the boat, you could easily tell which photographer is participating in what category. Huge underwater video cameras laid around the boat represented the Cyprus Underwater Video Clip category, pretty women fancily dressed up (or not dressed up at all…), working on their make up, served as an evidence of the Fashion & Nudity category and handmade plywood banners with environmental awareness titles acted for the Environmental Conservation Campaign category.
One of the participants in the Environmental Conservation Campaign category is Ronny Fogelman from Israel. Equipped with a very original idea, Ronny arrived to the competition especially in order to participate in this category and dedicated all of his dives in order to produce 5 underwater images that together assemble his campaign. Ronny thought that an initiative campaign, which focuses on how divers and sea lovers can increase underwater environmental awareness, would be more effective rather than simply going for the common underwater environmental violation scenes that usually perform a leading role in such categories. He designed an underwater protest, making use of divers holding plywood signs prepared ahead. Each of the images in the campaign features a different composition in which the divers and signs are differently arranged. Ronny is very happy with the results so far and he is confident that his creative campaign will produce some nice results, with respect to a few different aspects...
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