News, Travel & Events

Staff · Issue 93, Nov/Dec 2016 · pp. 4–14

Products mentioned: Canon 8-15mm lens, Panasonic GX7, Easydive housing

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com Audun Rikardsen Firstly I’d like to thank Audun Rikardsen from Norway for giving me permission to use his winning image from the WPY competition and secondly congratulate him on his success. Two of his powerful images are reproduced in a spread of WPY underwater winners later in this issue and they are both, to my eye, world class and I thought worthy of higher placing but what do I know? They are two great examples of how you don’t need colourful coral reefs to produce arresting images. Sometimes a stark contrast and a sense of remoteness has a power of its own. I am hoping he will have time to tell us the stories behind both shots for publication in the next issue of UwP. Circular Fisheyes Phil Rudin’s review of Canon’s 8-15mm lens made me think how far we’ve developed optically. In the early days (yawn) the only really wide angle lenses we had…