Half of the photos were taken with a Canon S80, the other half with a Canon Rebel Xti.
We want to show that you could still take beautiful photos without braking the bank.

I next publication will be in April 2008 - Australasia Magazine.

Full list of interviews:

Simon Pridmore – Head of Sales & Marketing Closed Circuit Research & Delta P Technologies.
Simon speaks about the VR2 & VR3 and gives a closer look at their new rebreather the “Sentinel”

Tom Leys – General Manager Green Force
Tom talks about the Green Force dive lights and demos their latest addition, the Ceto.

Andi Voeltz - Hugyfot
Andi shows two new Hugyfot underwater housings.

Susan Long – President & CEO of DUI
Ever wanted to know who is the driving force behind DUI.  Meet Susan Long.  Plenty of details on their brand new 30/30 explorer suite.

Sverker Palmblad – Sales Area Manager Poseidon
Cis-Lunar lives again.  Sverker tells you all about it.

Etienne Mackensen – Distributor Ambient Pressure Diving
The new APD BOV, APD goes wireless and the Evolution +. 

The video podcasts of these interviews can be found at http://www.submergeproductions.com

A direct link to the podcasts: http://www.submergeproductions.com/Action/Interviews.aspx

Note:
The podcasts can be watched online or downloaded for offline viewing.  They are available in two sizes.  For high bandwidth users we recommend the 1000 Kbps versions (512 x 384).  A lower resolution version is available as well (384 x 288 @ 500 Kbps). 

These are big files.  If the video does not play smoothly in your browser, we recommend to download the files instead.  To view downloaded flash video files, a special viewer is required on your computer.  A free FLV Player created by Martijn de Visser can be downloaded here (http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/flv-player/).

I have included the 2 photos which won. The Clark’s Anemonefish came 1st in the Underwater category and aslo ‘Best of the Show’. The Porcelain Anemone Crab came 2nd in the Underwater category.

Keep an eye out for the magazine

Cheers
Derek

I have just received an Email that I was nervously awaiting for a while.
Now I am a little bit sad but also proud. Read on to find out why…

Thank you so much for entering the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2007.
We received over 32,000 pictures from 78 countries - a record breaking year.
Unfortunately, your digital entries were not successful in this years competition.
To see if any of your images made it into the semi-final or final stages, login to our website.

After logging in I found that three of my images made it into the
Semi-Finals. I would like to share these with you in this post and
am very exited to find out if they are among the selected ones for
the prestigious yearbook or exhibition.

However much more I am interested in your feedback.

In total I entered 8 different photos and
placed these in four different categories.
Three of them seem to have done okay.

If you have previously entered the competition or if you
have any experience with this competition, I’d like to find
out how many images are selected into semi-final stage
and how to judge about this status.

This was on my login-page a few minutes ago.

Category: Animal Behaviour: Mammals
File: AndiVoeltz.Cat2Sundancer.jpg
Stage reached:  Semi-Final
Image title: Sundancer
Short description: This dolphin isolated from it’s pod stoped by and gave me an
intense eye-contact while the sun made perfect patterns on his forehead.

Category: Animal Behaviour: Mammals
File: AndiVoeltz.Cat2ByYourSide.jpg
Stage reached:  Semi-Final
Image title: By Your Side
Short description: Even with dolphins a buddy team seems to play an essential
role. These two never seperated while I stayed with them.

Category: Nature in Black and White
File: AndiVoeltz.Cat9HuntersInMotion.jpg
Stage reached:  Semi-Final
Image title: Hunters In Motion
Short description: These Carribean Reefsharks are constantly monitoring the reef
for food options. While doing so they have to maintain a close
working distance to each other. The B/W technique also was useful
to bring up the byte-marks on one of the specimen which is
supposed to be a recent leftover from a mating procedure.

I also got on the BBC at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/6210070.stm when I found an untouched wreck at the bottom of Ullswater.  Here is the video that I took of it and that got on ITV Wales which is where I live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hjGAibqGU

It was really tricky to film as any contact with the bottom or the wreck would just kick up clouds of silt and vis it out but I managed to get about 45 mins of footage and edited together this little vid.  Hope you like it.

Steve

I am very pleased to have the cover of tauchen Magazine
- Europe’s largest dive magazine - this month with a picture of a big
Tiger Shark.  Feedback - good or bad is highly appreciated. Enclosed
is the original photo that came out of my camera.

Hope to read you soon .oOo. Andi

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