Rescheduled Meeting: June 24
Same meeting: new date! We hope to see you this Wedneday (June 24) at 7:30pm.
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We have a wonderful speaker this month, Susan Pantle of Uncommon Adventures and World of Diving speaking about Raja Ampat and areas close by. Exciting stuff, be sure not to miss it!!
It’s also time for the Digital Slideshow competition!
There is no upload form this month because we’re a little tight on server disk space, and slideshows can get rather large. Please bring your slideshow to the meeting on CD, DVD or thumb drive.
Notice to videographers: at the May meeting, we incorrectly stated that the 3-minute edited competition would also be in June. It’s actually scheduled for the July meeting.
Digital Slideshow rules:
*Entries should be approximately 2 minutes in length.
*Preferred file format is Quicktime.
*At least 80% of the images, exclusive of the titles, must have been shot underwater.
*Titles may be computer generated.
*Do not put your name on titles.
*The slide shows may have audio added. Audio must be royalty-free to be posted on the web.
*Individual images may be previous Intra-Club or Mini Competition winners.
*Also look over the rules that apply to all competitions in the General Rules section on the LAUPS website
JUNE MEETING RESCHEDULED
We just learned that the Museum is closed all day due to a Laker’s event. We will tentatively reschedule the meeting for next week on Wed, Jun 24th. Kelly will send out a follow up email later today. Please pass on the word so that no one goes to the museum tonight.
Thank you for your understanding on this.
Lightroom Seminar #2 with Rob Shepard
We’ve scheduled the second Lightroom seminar for Saturday, August 1 with Rob Shepard. The seminar will start at 9am and run until 4 or 5pm. It will be held at Post and Beam in Santa Monica.
Cost for the day is $50; you can sign up and pay on the website at:
http://laups.org/lightroom_class.php
Day #2 will consist of a review of library and development, and then the majority of the day will be spent on slideshows, web publishing, and printing.
If you’re signing up for more than one person, or if your name is different from the name on your Paypal account, please use the “Add special instructions to merchant” link at the “Review your payment step to include a list of names.
June 17 Meeting
We have a wonderful speaker this month, Susan Pantle of Uncommon Adventures and World of Diving speaking about Raja Ampat and areas close by. Exciting stuff, be sure not to miss it!!
It’s also time for the Digital Slideshow competition!
There is no upload form this month because we’re a little tight on server disk space, and slideshows can get rather large. Please bring your slideshow to the meeting on CD, DVD or thumb drive.
Notice to videographers: at the May meeting, we incorrectly stated that the 3-minute edited competition would also be in June. It’s actually scheduled for the July meeting.
Digital Slideshow rules:
*Entries should be approximately 2 minutes in length.
*Preferred file format is Quicktime.
*At least 80% of the images, exclusive of the titles, must have been shot underwater.
*Titles may be computer generated.
*Do not put your name on titles.
*The slide shows may have audio added. Audio must be royalty-free to be posted on the web.
*Individual images may be previous Intra-Club or Mini Competition winners.
*Also look over the rules that apply to all competitions in the General Rules section on the LAUPS website
May Winners
Winners have been posted for the May Digital Intraclub and for Shootout #1.
May Digital Intraclub Winners:
Wide Angle Open:
- 1st Place: Fletcher Forbes
- 2nd Place: Linda Blanchard
- 3rd Place: Fletcher Forbes, Jeff Laity
Wide Angle Novice:
- 1st Place: John Nolan
- 2nd Place: John Nolan
- 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper
Macro Open:
- 1st Place: Kevin Lee
- 2nd Place: Kevin Lee
- 3rd Place: Jeff Laity, Scott Gietler
Macro Novice:
- 1st Place: John Nolan
- 2nd Place: Nikki Pieper
- 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper
Cold Water Open:
- 1st Place: Kevin Lee
- 2nd Place: Kevin Lee
- 3rd Place: Kevin Lee
Cold Water Novice:
- 1st Place: John Nolan
- 2nd Place: Nikki Pieper
- 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper
Marine Related Open:
- 1st Place: Tony Frank
- 2nd Place: Scott Gietler
- 3rd Place: Fletcher Forbes, Scott Webb
Marine Related Novice:
- 1st Place: Nikki Pieper
- 2nd Place: John Nolan
- 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper
Black and White (combined open/novice):
- 1st Place: Scott Gietler
- 2nd Place: Kevin Lee, Fletcher Forbes
- 3rd Place: Nikki Pieper
Shootout #1 Winners:
Shootout Stills:
- 1st Place: Todd Winner
- 2nd Place: Todd Winner
- 3rd Place: Dave Nesheim
Shootout Video:
- 1st Place: Dwight Crumb
- 2nd Place: Nannette Van Antwerp, Dwight Crumb
- 3rd Place: Nannette Van Antwerp
You can see all the winners in our 2009 Club Competitions album.
SCUBA Show May 30-31
LAUPS will have a booth again this year at the SCUBA Show, right across from our friends in OCUPS. Just one of many reasons to attend the show!
The SCUBA Show, the largest dive expo in the U.S. will take place May 30-31 (the weekend after Memorial Day) at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. This is the 22nd year of this popular event. The show will consist of 76,000 square feet of diving related exhibits including new and revolutionary dive gear, travel pros (many offering show discounts), and diving experts. Several exhibitors also offer free drawings for valuable prizes.
Highlighting the exhibit hall will be a personal appearance by world famous artist Wyland. He will be doing a live painting during the show and exhibiting some of his finest artwork.
A continuous underwater film festival will be running in the exhibit hall on a three-story high screen and will feature films from around the world by over a dozen underwater imaging experts.
A full schedule of 33 seminars will garnish the weekend given by top diving experts Marty Snyderman, Dr. Milton Love, Bruce Watkins, Dale Sheckler, Tabby Stone MD, Ken Knezick, Ken Kurtis, Bonnie Cardone, and many more. Subjects covered include underwater photography and video, marine life, dive travel, and more.
Saturday night will feature a Casino party benefiting California Ships to Reefs, a non-profit organization sinking ships along the California coastline as artificial reefs. Highlight of the party will be the awarding of the California Scuba Service Award. Honoree for this year is Sal Zammitti, a fixture in California diving for over 40 years with his Central and Northern California Bamboo Reef dive stores.
Exhibit hall hours are Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is $12 and includes admission to exhibit hall and film festival (seminars are an additional charge). Discount coupons are available at California dive stores, on dive California dive charter boats and through California dive clubs. Age 10 and under are admitted free with paying adult. For information on SCUBA Show 2009 call (310) 792-2333 or visit the web site www.scubashow.com
May Competitions: Digital Intraclub and Shootout #1
We are now accepting entries for both May competitions.
To submit your entries from Shootout #1 (stills or video), please go to the upload page.
To submit entries for the May Digital Intraclub, please use our dedicated Intraclub Upload Page. (The upload page only takes 6 images at a time in order to prevent browser timeouts, but you may submit the form multiple times to upload all your images.)
Please submit your entries for both competitions by 11:59pm, Tuesday May 12.
The categories for this year’s Digital Intraclub are:
- Wide Angle
- Macro
- Cold Water
- Marine Related / Scenic
- Black & White
Intraclub Rules:
- A maximum number of 3 images per category may be entered.
- The same image or any portion thereof may not be entered in more then one category.
- Previous minicomp or shootout winners ARE eligible for entry in the intraclub. Previous intraclub winners are NOT.
April Minicomp: “Molluscs with Eggs”
Now accepting entries for the April minicomp: “Molluscs with Eggs.”
Please use our upload page to submit photos and video clips.
April Meeting Moved to April 22
Please note that this month’s meeting will be held a week later than originally schedued, on Wednesday, April 22.
(This is to avoid a traffic nightmare, as Bruce Springsteen is performing at the coliseum on the originally scheduled meeting night.)
We apologize for the late notice, and hope to see you all on the 22nd!
Lightroom Seminar with Rob Shepard
This Saturday (April 11) is the first of two Lightroom seminars with Rob Shepard. The seminar will start at 9am and run until 4 or 5pm. It will be held at one of the classrooms in the Natural History Museum - details to follow.
Each day costs $50; you can sign up and pay on the website at:
http://laups.org/lightroom_class.php
If you’re signing up for more than one person, or if your name is different from the name on your Paypal account, please use the “Add special instructions to merchant” link at the “Review your payment step to include a list of names. We need this to provide to museum security.
Day #2’s date is still TBD.