Editorial

Staff · Issue 114, May/Jun 2020 · pp. 4

Editorial UP supplement Keen (or should that be older!) readers will probably know that from December 1986 I published a printed magazine entitled simply Underwater Photography or ‘UP’ for short. Published bi-monthly it ran for two years before I expanded it into SportDiver which I sold two years later and it continued with a PADI alliance from then on. The reason I am telling you this is to explain that the last section of each UwP issue for the next two years will include an issue of UP from way back then. It’s the perfect way to recycle them and provide another unique insight of what underwater photography was like well over 30 years ago. Looking at the first issue the thing that hits me is how bad the quality of the images were; not photographically but from a printing point of view. It was always a problem with blue water backgrounds and then there was the fact that I could only aff…