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posted by Andi Voeltz on 04/22/2006

SanDisk RedSea Underwater Photo Competition 2006 Live Webcast

Intro | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | more photos...

Registration Day

Razi proudly presents his
new SanDisk 1GB memory card

One of the registration tables
surrounded by contestants

The first day of the Shootout started with positive odds. During the last days we always observed cloudy skies in the morning. Today the sun was constantly smiling into our lenses. The program for the shootout participants included contest registration and some local underwater photographic exercises. Photos participating in the live shootout may not be taken before tomorrow.

For participating in the live Shootout each underwater photographer has to personally register and receives a participant kit in return. The first 100 registered contestants received a special surprise. SanDisk was generous enough to donate a 1GB CompactFlash or SD-Card of the latest Generation for each participant (Editors comment: digital photographers in this contest really get spoiled!). The organizers were busy to register new participants during the whole day. Before closing more than one hundred new contestants were registered and tomorrow is still time to enrol.

During the next days one of the classrooms at the Manta Diving Centre is transformed into the Live Shootouts Headquarter. Every evening the contestants will be able to store their images on one of the eight computer terminals that have been prepared to accept. At the End of the week, each photographer has to pick his five best images for the jury.

Waterbabys and a visit at Dolphin Reef

To some journalists (including us) this day has some imagery highlights in store. While I decided on practicing with my camera on the house reed, Lars visited the pool of the local swimming club. There he had an appointment with Eilat’s next generation of divers.

In the afternoon we were transferred by MiniBus to the famous Dolphin Reef. The Dolphin Reef in Eilat is an institution that enables the interaction with a pod of friendly dolphins in open water. In the underwater park, where interaction takes place, you will also find different objects to breed corals on an artificial reef. A dive in this environment is a unique experience. While you dive between these strange objects from Captain Hook’s adventure you suddenly hear click sounds emitted by the dolphins. Soon after that you are surrounded by swift gliding mammals with a wonderful smile. When they pass close-by they leave an impressive pressure wave, which sometimes moved our underwater housings back and forth.

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Fabulous pictures. I would love to be in that nice clear water.

Jim

posted by on 04/24/2006

Nice pictures. the dolphins not me:-)
good to have you in Eilat

posted by Razi on 04/26/2006

i’m very interested by underwater photo,and by your news .

posted by on 04/26/2006

Thank you Abdel!
We’ll update again in a few hours. I know you are all waiting for some of the competing images.

posted by Andreas Voeltz on 04/28/2006

Thank you all DigiDeep for the report.
great U/w photo’s Good Luck.
Amir Stern.

posted by on 04/28/2006

Thanks for the great webcast !!!!!!! Looks like you guys had a great time !!

posted by Derek on 05/02/2006

Great review

More photos by me and my wife Olga:

From competition:
http://vizaviz.livejournal.com/30493.html

World image:
http://vizaviz.livejournal.com/26458.html

posted by Konstantin Hoshana on 05/02/2006

thanks for the comprehensive coverage, wish I could have been there!

Great!!

Steve

posted by Steve Jones on 05/02/2006

Missed teh event by one day! Left Eilat on 23rd. Thanks for the comprehensive coverage and great website.

posted by on 05/08/2006

I've just created a gallery with all the competition entries. If you have entered your pictures in the competition, then please send me an email with your images. I would like to get as many entries as possible.
The gallery can be found here:
http://www.digideep.com/imgdb/articles/2006/2006_04_red_sea_sandisk_shooutout/competitors/1/

Thanks

posted by Lars Kirchhoff on 05/12/2006

I would like to thank the digideep team for the wonderful report on the Sandisk comptition in Eilat
As well I would like to thank all the people how supported me and belived in me

Thank you all
Noam Kortler

posted by Noam Kortler on 07/18/2006

Very nice...

Thanks for the underwater pictures !

posted by frederic geiselmann on 10/26/2006

Hello Guyz,

anyone of you going again in November 2007 ?
Would be pleased to read your plans in our forum, right here:

http://www.digideep.com/go/forums/viewthread/52

Hopefully CU in November 2007 .oOo. Andi

posted by Andreas Voeltz on 12/27/2006

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